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in evaporating and analysing on a large scale. Thus he 

 worked in his quarters at one of the hotels in York, just as 

 if he were in his own laboratory at home ; and by his busy 

 scrutiny of waters in the volcanic country of central France 

 and the south of Italy, he provoked the suspicious credulity 

 of the natives, who thought he was poisoning their springs, 

 and endangered his personal safety.' Professor Phillips : 

 Obituary Notice of Dr. Daubeny^ Proc. Ashm. Soc. 1868. 



An early type of bottle (1844) for taking samples of water 

 from the depths of the ocean was also kept here. 



The Geological Collections, being those in which Dr. 

 Daubeny had the greatest interest, were preserved in the 

 cases which surrounded his private room on the ground floor. 

 Some idea of the size of the collections may be gathered 

 from the fact that the Palaeontological specimens arranged in 

 stratigraphical sequence filled 140 drawers, the Plutonic and 

 Metamorphic Rocks filled thirty-four drawers, the Volcanic 

 rocks, submarine and subaerial, filled 126 drawers, and lastly, 

 the Miscellaneous Collection, consisting of suites of specimens 

 illustrating the geological structure of particular districts, 

 filled 115 drawers. 



It is impossible to speak too highly of the method which 

 was adopted for rendering individual specimens in the collec- 

 tions accessible for reference. The printed catalogue gives 

 a list of the more important specimens contained in each 

 drawer under general headings, and often references to 

 memoirs in which descriptions of them may be consulted. 

 Secondly, a fuller manuscript catalogue contains detailed 

 lists of the contents of each drawer ; transcripts of these 

 lists are also placed in the drawers, in which ihe specimens 

 are arranged in rows and numbered consecutively, a new 

 series commencing with each new drawer. And lastly, there 

 is an interleaved copy of Dr. Daubeny's Monograph on 

 Volcanos with references to the drawers which contain the 

 specimens described in the book. 



Additions to the collections have since been made by 

 Mr. T. H. T. Hopkins and by Mr. R. T. Gunther, Fellows of 

 the College. Among the most interesting of the Miscel- 



