20 HISTORY OF THE DAUBENY LABORATORY 



Combined teachers in other Colleges by a system of combined lectures, 

 Lectures. Merton, Jesus, Trinity, Wadham, and Balliol at various times 

 entering into the combination. During the early part of his 

 tenure of office he entirely renewed a large portion of the 

 collection of chemical substances and reagents, and labelled 

 them in accordance with the modern nomenclature. On the 

 institution of the Preliminary Examination in the Honour 

 School, he commenced and carried on for many years a series 

 of lectures on Physics, a subject since treated specially at the 

 Millard Laboratory. 



Report to An account of the machinery at work for the teaching of 

 sio^on 8 " Phvsical Science at Magdalen College in the year 1870 was 

 Scientific printed in an appendix to the reports and minutes of evidence 

 Instruc- o f th e R y a i Commission on Scientific Instruction 1 . 



Mr. Chapman then stated, for the benefit of the Commis- 

 sioners, that the method of teaching was : 



1. 'A course of advanced lectures intended for candi- 

 dates for honours in the Physical Science School. These 

 lectures combine formal teaching in a class with attention to 

 the individual requirements of each candidate in private. 



2. * A course of lectures on elementary chemical physics, 

 intended for beginners. These lectures are not given with the 

 view of training men necessarily for the Physical Science 

 School, but as a means of general education, in the hope 

 that an intelligent interest may be excited in the mind of the 

 student, and habits of observation and accuracy established/ 



In conclusion Mr. Chapman laid great stress on the impor- 

 tance of supplementing the teaching work of the professors of 

 the University ' by taking care that each student in Physical 

 Science shall receive the same help and attention from his 

 College Tutor as that enjoyed by the classical or mathe- 

 matical candidate. I am the more confirmed in this view, 

 as I have found that such a system often reaches men who, 

 but for the fact that the subject was brought to them in 

 College, would never have taken up the study at all. 



1 Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction and the Advancement of 

 Science, vol. i. First, supplementary and second reports with minutes 

 of evidence and appendices. [C. 536.] London, 1872. 



