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the performance of experiments under the said Act ' (Meeting 

 of October 13, 1877). The licence was granted by the Home 

 Office on October 25, 1877. 



The University Physiological Laboratory had not so much 

 as been thought of in those days, and was not opened for 

 work until 1885. Many therefore availed themselves of the 

 opportunity for quiet study which the College Laboratory, the 

 only Physiological Laboratory in Oxford, afforded. Among 

 them my friend Dr. Dixey, who, in relating some of his 

 experiences of these early days, enlarged on the benefit he 

 had obtained from it, and extolled Yule's undoubted genius. 

 We find that on February 9, 1882, the latter, applying for 

 a renewal of the licence, could write, ' I am at present the 

 only person teaching Physiology in this University.' And 

 Professor Burdon-Sanderson, on coming to Oxford from 

 University College, London, in 1882, as Waynflete Professor 

 of Physiology, found the Daubeny Laboratory suitable for 

 his experimental work. There was no laboratory connected 

 with his Chair. 



The small rooms on the upper floor were at this time 

 devoted to Physiology, and the westernmost was specially 

 fitted up as a dark room for Professor Burdon-Sanderson, and 

 there, assisted by Dr. Gotch, he carried on his researches on 

 Dionaea 1 . 



Meanwhile, work in other branches of science was not Physical 

 neglected, for in the summer of 1876 Mr. Lazarus Fletcher, Teaching, 

 the present Keeper of the Mineralogical Department in the 

 British Museum, on his appointment as Millard Lecturer 

 in connexion with Magdalen, Merton, and Trinity Colleges, 

 conducted a course in Optics and other branches of Elemen- 

 tary Physics in the Laboratory. When in 1879 he became 

 an assistant at the British Museum, Mr. Jupp, a mathematical 

 Demy, and later science master at Clifton College, acted as 

 his deputy, and at a later date, Mr. Dixon, now Professor of 

 Chemistry at Owens College, Manchester. 



1 J. Burdon-Sanderson, On the Electromotive Properties of the Leaf of 

 Dionaea in the Excited and Unexcited States. Second Paper. Philosophical 

 Transactions , vol. 179, pp. 417-49. 1888. 



