4 HISTORY OF THE DAUBENY LABORATORY 



enclose the Garden, about twelve feet high and two feet thick, 

 was found to be sufficiently strong to serve as the lower part 

 of the south wall of the new Laboratory of 1902. The original 

 drip moulding has been retained in the ground-floor room. 

 House of In the original plan for the Garden the Gardener or Pro- 

 ofBotany. ^ essor was expressly enjoined to reside at the Garden, and 

 to enable him to do so conveniently an official residence 

 was built near the end of the south side of the old East 

 Bridge: it is marked in Hollar's map of the Garden (1643). 

 In the Oxford Almanack for 1772, which gives us a view 

 of the old East Bridge Street at that point, the street front 

 of the house is shown, and the same view represents the 

 sign of the Noah's Ark Inn which stood, together with 

 'certaine poore cottages and scattering houses 1 ,' along the 

 strip of land in front of the Laboratory facing the College. 

 The New The erection of a new bridge over the Cherwell com- 

 Bndge. m enced in 1772 resulted in various alterations on the south 

 side of the street. To improve the approach to the bridge 

 by raising the roadway, it was found necessary to demolish 

 the house belonging to the Professor of Botany (1795), and the 

 site of the house, like the terrace in front of Balliol College 

 in the Broad, was surrendered to the Commissioners of the 

 Paving Act, to enable them to improve the street, and to pile 

 the stones necessary for its repair. 



By this widening the plot north of the Garden wall was 

 reduced in width by the amount it had previously projected 

 in front of the site of Trinity Hall or of the Magdalen Gate 

 House ; a projection which is indicated in Loggan's map. 

 No doubt the existing lime-trees were planted soon after. 



The then occupant of the Botanical Chair, Professor 

 Sibthorp, rinding no other shelter suitable for the Sherardian 

 Collection of Botanical Books and Herbarium, which had 

 till then been kept in the official residence, caused the eastern 

 greenhouse to be converted into a Library and Lecture 

 Dr. Room. 



Professor ^ uc ^ was ^ e conc lition f things in 1 834, when Dr. Daubeny, 

 of Botany. M.D. and Fellow of Magdalen College, who had been Pro- 



1 Leonard Hutten. 



