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to exist even in name as a place of medical education ; another that, 

 on the principle already referred to, namely, that the study of animals 

 and plants should be considered as a part of the Oxford educational 

 system, the subject of biology took its place side by side with the 

 exact sciences in the newly formed School of Natural science. Thus 

 it eventually became possible for Oxford students, after passing the 

 First Public examination, to obtain a class, by proficiency in the 

 sciences of observation. The third important result which followed 

 from Acland's work at Christ Church was the establishment of the 

 University Museum. The collection of specimens which Acland had 

 brought from Edinburgh had grown during his tenure of the Christ 

 Church Readership into a Museum which occupied several rooms and 

 consisted of some 1,700 anatomical preparations. These were arranged 

 by him for the use of students after the plan of the Museum of the 

 College of Surgeons. The classification was Hunterian, i.e., physio- 

 logical, the parts of the animal body being grouped according to their 

 uses. To the dissections and osteological preparations, which were 

 for the most part the work of Mr. Robertson, were added a considerable 

 number of specimens of marine animals, the spoils of dredging 

 expeditions on the south coast and at the Scilly Islands, in which 

 Acland had the aid of Dr. Victor Cams, now Professor of Zoology at 

 Leipzig. The Christ Church Museum was still further enriched by 

 Dr. Rolleston, who succeeded Acland as Reader in 1858, so that when 

 Rolleston was appointed to the newly constituted Linacre Professor- 

 ship, it became apparent that the time had come for the University to 

 take up the work that Christ Church had begun. Meanwhile Acland 

 and others who had taken part in founding the new Natural Science 

 School, had with great energy and perseverance promoted a Scheme 

 for establishing an Institution in which provision could be made for 

 all the studies connected with that School. The success of this scheme, 

 which was in great measure due to his exertions, afforded the occasion 

 for the supreme effort of his life, the erection of the Museum Building, 

 and the transference thereto of the Christ Church Collection. 



So long as Rolleston held the Linacre Professorship, the principle 

 by which Dr. Acland was guided in the arrangement of the collection 

 at Christ Church, namely, that it should be ordered on the plan of the 

 Hunterian Museum of the College of Surgeons, in London, was not 

 departed from; but after Rolleston's death, in 1881, a great change 

 took place in the aspect of the Collection. The progress of Science 

 required that the old comparative anatomy should give place to the 

 new "Animal Morphology." The most valuable of the preparations 

 may still be seen, but the Hunterian collection no longer exists. The 

 great anatomist is still represented by Mr. Hope Pinker's beautiful 

 statue, but of the " philosophic views " which Acland desired should be 



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