22 HISTORY OF THE DAUBENY LABORATORY 



seven o'clock, of about an hour's length, and the two follow- 

 ing hours were employed in practically verifying by dissection 

 and experiment the leading points of the lecture, for which 

 purpose each student was supplied with a working-place to 

 himself and the apparatus necessary for his work. The 

 numbers were restricted to eight, and Mr. F. J. Bell, now 

 Professor of Comparative Anatomy at King's College, London, 

 assisted both in the teaching and preparation of the lectures. 

 C. Yule's Mr. C. J. F. Yule, although originally a Brackenbury Scholar 

 ^ical" of Balliol, migrated to Cambridge, where, as a Scholar of 

 Course. St. John's College, he had studied Physiology with Michael 

 Foster, and was known by a paper on Urari when elected 

 to a Fellowship at Magdalen. On his return to Oxford 

 he found that work along modern lines was impossible in 

 the University Laboratories, for Professor Rolleston, although 

 nominally the Linacre Professor of Physiology, was devoting 

 his chief attention to Comparative Anatomy, and had not 

 followed the latest developments of Physiological Research. 



The thorough nature of Yule's Physiological Course is in- 

 dicated by the syllabus compiled by him in 1878, entitled 

 Syllabus of a Years Course of Practical Work in the Physio- 

 logical Laboratory of Magdalen College ', Oxford. Circulation 

 and Respiration were studied in the Michaelmas Term, the 

 Nervous System in the Lent Term, while the Easter Term 

 was devoted to Digestion and Animal Chemistry. 



From this development in the teaching the need for modern 

 instruments of precision naturally arose, and the College 

 voted in 1876 a grant for the purpose of procuring them. 

 Of the apparatus which was then added to our collections we 

 cannot speak too highly, for without the Oertling Balance, 

 the Elliott-Thomson Galvanometer, and the Chronographs, 

 much good research could not have been accomplished. 



Mr. Yule still further increased the efficiency of the Labora- 

 tory for Physiological Research, by causing it to be registered 

 as a place where experiments upon living animals could 

 be carried on. At his request the College passed the 

 following Order : ' That the College consent to their Labora- 

 tory being registered under 38 and 39 Victoria, Cap. 27, for 



