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fessor of Chemistry since 1 822, was chosen to succeed Sibthorp 

 as Sherardian Professor of Botany. With characteristic energy 

 he immediately applied himself to bring the Garden into a 

 state of efficiency better suited to the progress the science 

 had made ; and, even before delivering his inaugural lecture, 

 he had presented a report to the Visitors of the Garden, and 

 had set on foot a subscription to enable the University to 

 bring the proposed reforms into effect. 



The improvements at first contemplated by Professor 

 Daubeny did not involve any serious alterations on the 

 north side of the wall of the Garden. The western green- 

 house, which had no glass roof, and was very indifferently 

 supplied with light from windows in the southern front, having 

 been erected about a century previously when the construct- 

 ing of greenhouses was but ill understood, was to be trans- 

 formed into a Lecture Room, new glasshouses were to be 

 erected, and it was to be explained to the Street Commis- 

 sioners that their room was of greater value than their 

 company or rather than that of their heaps of stones ; and 

 by the eviction of these it became possible to erect at the 

 back of the Library (once a greenhouse), a new residence * for 

 the Professor of Botany, which was used as such from about 

 1836 until the death of Dr. Daubeny in 1867, when it was 

 devoted exclusively to the Herbarium. 



During the twelve years, 1822-34, which had elapsed Professor 

 between the election of Dr. Daubeny to succeed Dr. Kidd in . J r GheTn " 

 the Aldrichian Chair of Chemistry and to the Sherardian Early 

 Professorship, he had produced the books by which he is best works and 

 knownhis treatise on Volcanos (1826), and the Intro- lectures - 

 duction to the Atomic Theory (1831), as well as several 

 original memoirs published in Jameson's Edinburgh Philo- 

 sophical Journal and in the Philosophical Transactions. He 

 had filled the office of Bursar and of Vice-President of 

 Magdalen College. We still possess a record of attendances 

 at his Professorial lectures, which were delivered at the 



1 The fundamental error in the construction of this building as a dwelling- 

 house was that all the living-rooms were made to face the north. ' Dove 

 non entra il sole entra il medico.' 



