26 HISTORY OF THE DAUBENY LABORATORY 



Electricity and Magnetism were arranged for the boys studying 

 Science at the School, and have been delivered by Mr. Manley 

 in the College Laboratory twice a week. The lectures cover 

 such portions of the subjects as are required for the Oxford 

 and Cambridge Higher and Lower Certificates. 



Pre- In 1891 the Regulations of the Board of the Faculty of 



Fhysic7 Natural Science were modified, so as to require from candi- 

 dates for the Preliminary Examination in Physics a practical 

 knowledge of certain elementary physical experiments. Mr. 

 Chapman obtained a special grant from the College for the 

 purchase of apparatus suited for these new requirements, and 

 the easternmost room on the upper floor was adapted for 

 a course of instruction. 



The wisdom of rendering the Laboratory equipment fitted 

 for instruction in the subjects for the Preliminary Examina- 

 tion was strikingly exemplified when, a few years after, the 

 University Laboratory was so crowded that several under- 

 graduates commencing the subject could not be accommo- 

 dated there. 



Physical Some ten years later a new departure was made in the 

 Ghem- course of Physical Chemistry which was arranged by Messrs. 

 Wilson and Manley. For many years the subject of Physical 

 Chemistry had been required of all candidates seeking honours 

 in the Final Chemistry School, but there was no adequate 

 provision in the University for practical instruction in this 

 most productive field of chemical study. 



Need for In 1901 the main fabric of the Daubeny building was in 

 extension. p rac tically the same condition as it was in the middle of the 

 nineteenth century. A roof over the main staircase had been 

 replaced, and a high-pressure water heating apparatus had 

 been introduced instead of the old low-pressure boiler, which 

 had remained in a useless state for many years, but no 

 structural improvements had been effected. 



The need for extension and rearrangement arose, firstly, 

 because the number of students receiving practical instruction 

 in Chemistry and Physics in the Laboratory had largely 

 increased, and secondly because the purposes for which it 

 was desired to use the building were found to interfere with 



