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In the winter terms of 1876-7 the new buildings (p. 28) 

 not having been completed, Professor Lawson was unable 

 to give his advertised lectures on Vegetable Histology, but 

 he joined with Messrs. Yule and Chapman in delivering a 

 course of Saturday evening lectures to artisans in the Magdalen 

 Laboratory ; he chose Vegetable Physiology as his subject. 

 In the later seventies Professor Lawson advertised lectures at 

 the Professor's House. 



However, by 1879 the Lecture Room had been refitted, 

 and two Laboratories were built on the site of two old green- 

 houses (Nos. i and 2), one at each end of the Lecture Room. 

 The Western one was the Class Room, capable of accommo- 

 dating twenty students ; the Eastern one, a small Laboratory. 



When Professor Lawson resigned his Professorship at the 

 end of 1882, his duties were taken by Mr. Chapman, who 

 lectured in the Magdalen Laboratory and superintended the 

 practical work. During Lent and Summer Terms, 1883, he 

 conducted a Practical course on Elementary Vegetable Morpho- 

 logy, and in Michaelmas, 1883, and Lent, 1884, he lectured 

 on Vegetable Histology in fact, he kept things going until 

 the new Professor had been elected (see p. 29). A long 

 series of microscopic preparations made at that time shows 

 that the Histology of Higher Plants was also studied, perhaps 

 in as great detail as it is in elementary classes at the present 

 day. In the Magdalen Laboratory, too, a little later, Professor 

 Burdon-Sanderson, assisted by Dr. Gotch, carried out his re- 

 searches on Venus' Fly Trap, Dionaea, there being then no 

 suitably furnished Botanical or Physiological Laboratory con- 

 nected with the University. 



Lawson's Laboratories and Lecture Room remained very much 

 in statu quo, except that the Fielding Herbarium was removed 

 into the Professor's House, leaving the Central Western Con- 

 servatory as Lecture Room only. But in October, 1911, 

 Professor Vines changed the places of Lecture Room and 

 Western Laboratory, so that the former was moved to the 



