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that the College should have the veto on all removal of trees 

 and on the erection of buildings, temporary or permanent, 

 which they might consider unsightly or prejudicial to their 

 property ; and thirdly, that the lease should terminate absolutely 

 whenever the land shall cease to be used as the principal 

 Botanic Garden of the University. 



In pursuance of this covenant the University forthwith spent 

 2,200 upon the Wall and the Lecture Room, and built the 

 Class Room and small Laboratory adjoining, on the sites of 

 the dilapidated Western Green-houses ( University Gazette for 

 May 22, 1876). 



In later years the University Accounts tell a monotonous 

 story of a continual making up of the deficits in the accounts 

 of the Botanic Garden, relieved by occasional votes of larger 

 sums of money for building. 



Thus, in 1893, ;3j5 was asked to cover expenditure 

 estimated at "1,400 in 1893, "542 in 1894, and "1,112 in 

 1895. Large sums were also spent for Botany elsewhere, for 

 in 1898 ,7,500 was voted for a Joint Laboratory and 

 Lecture Room for the Botanical and Comparative Anatomy 

 Professors upon a site so remote from the Garden that the 

 joint scheme can only be regarded as a makeshift arrangement. 



Again, by the munificence of St. John's College, in 1907-9 

 an Institute of Applied Botany (Rural Economy) was built 

 at a cost of .8,159 i2s. yd., not counting the value of the site. 



And during the present year an expenditure of over 3,500 

 has been incurred for improved Laboratory accommodation at 

 the Botanic Garden itself. 



In 1903 Magdalen College, of its own free will, and out of a 

 wish to benefit the University at a time of stress rather than 

 to aggrandise itself, and notwithstanding the increased value of 

 land in the City of Oxford, reduced the rent from ^30 to 

 IQS. per annum, at which figure "it now stands. At present 

 the other rents paid are one of $s. to the Oxford Corporation 

 and one of 6d. to Christ Church, so that the University 



