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' Considerable experience in tuition has convinced me that 

 Physical Science as an instrument of education will flourish 

 the better in Oxford the more it becomes an integral part of 

 our College System/ 



The replies which the Commissioners received from the 

 various Oxford Colleges show very clearly the pioneer part 

 which the Daubeny Laboratory, under Mr. Chapman's direc- 

 tion, took at this time in supplementing the professorial 

 teaching centred at the University Museum. 



In 1874 a new and important development in the teach- Biological 

 ing of the University took place, when Messrs. Chapman, Teachin &- 

 Lawson, and Yule arranged courses of instruction in bio- 

 logical subjects on new lines. To these courses of instruction 

 our physiological teaching on modern lines traces its origin, 

 and owing to them the Daubeny Laboratory came by the 

 name of the Physiological Laboratory. 



The Biological Courses at the Daubeny Laboratory were, 

 no doubt, intended to supplement the deficiencies in the 

 University Courses. In a syllabus of about 1875, we see 

 that a minute practical study was made of the Plasmodium 

 of Aethalium, of Amoeba, Actinosphaerium, Monocystis, and 

 two other Gregarines, Paramoecium, Vorticella, Acineta, 

 and Hydra. Another syllabus included Zygnema, Trade- 

 scantia, Yeast, Pleurococcus, Gloeocapsa, Palmella, Nostoc, 

 Oscillatoria, Bacterium, Chlamydococcus, Volvox, and Spiro- 

 gyra. Courses on Histology and Physiology were arranged 

 by Mr. Yule. 



The lectures were open to Magdalen, Merton, and Trinity 

 men, and though the beginnings were modest, yet might the 

 originators with justice have quoted the words, * We shall light 

 such a candle as shall never be put out/ at any rate we hope 

 not in Oxford. 



In 1876 a series of more popular lectures and practical Lectures 

 demonstrations in Physiology, by Mr. Yule in conjunction with s ns rt 

 Professor Lawson on Vegetable Physiology, and Mr. Chapman 

 on Chemical Physics, was delivered to a class of artisans 

 in the Laboratory, which was lent by the College for that 

 purpose. A lecture was delivered every Saturday evening, at 



