l8 HISTORY OF THE DAUBENY LABORATORY 



laneous Collections are those of the rocks collected during 

 Daubeny's tour in the United States in 1837-8, Dr. Sibthorp's 

 rocks collected in Greece and the Levant, Phosphorite from 

 Estremadura, and other specimens collected in Spain in 1843 

 by Dr. Daubeny, and 107 specimens of rocks brought home 

 from one of Captain Parry's three Arctic Expeditions, and 

 purchased at Dr. Buckland's sale. 



All these Collections, together with his valuable Library of 

 Scientific Books, passed into the possession of the College 

 after his death, in accordance with the clauses in his will : 

 Daubeny's < I give and bequeath to the President and Scholars of 

 Will. Magdalen College absolutely all my minerals and geological 

 specimens, and the philosophical apparatus in the New 

 Buildings erected by me in the year 1848, opposite to 

 Magdalen College, on ground belonging to the said College, 

 together with the printed books on chemical and scientific 

 subjects, and also the best of my microscopes and all its 

 appliances, and also my chemical diagrams. 



* And I give to the said President and Scholars one thousand 

 pounds, three pounds per cent, stock, in trust to pay the 

 dividends or annual produce thereof as a salary to some 

 person to be appointed as Curator by the President for the 

 time being, during good behaviour, to take care of the afore- 

 said specimens and apparatus. And in the selection of such 

 person I recommend, but do not require, that my assistant 

 John Harris shall be first appointed, being satisfied that 

 a person not a member of the University will be best suited 

 to have charge of the Collection. And considering that 

 the value of the Collections, which I give to the College 

 including scientific books, philosophical instruments, speci- 

 mens of chemical products, rocks and minerals, must have 

 cost me considerably more than three thousand pounds, 

 I trust that the College will adopt such measures as may 

 be necessary to prevent them falling into decay, for which 

 purpose I have left the interest of one thousand pounds 

 stock to a Curator as aforesaid, that he may be responsible 

 for the integrity of the Collections, and render them as useful 

 as possible for the purposes of instruction. The scientific 



