28 HISTORY OF THE DAUBENY LABORATORY 



such additions and rearrangement, and also to report on the 

 probable cost of maintenance of the Laboratory as so im- 

 proved' (January 25, 1902). 



The new At the March Meeting the first-mentioned plan for the 

 lory " improvement was adopted, and the new Laboratory was 

 commenced before the end of Lent Term, 1902, between the 

 old Lecture Room and the telescope, and was finished by the 

 end of the following Long Vacation. The foundation stone 

 was laid over a dated fragment of the Times and a new coin 

 of the realm, and bears the following inscription : 



LAPIS HIC . ANGVLARIS 

 A . THOMA . HERBERTO . WARREN 



ANNO . PRAESIDATVS . XVIlMo 

 A D . IX . KAL . MAI . IACTVS . EST. 



The new building consists of two laboratories one above 

 the other, an entrance hall, and a cellar for stores and the 

 heating apparatus. Access to the upper story was by 

 a new staircase which, to save space, was inserted between 

 the old building and the wall of the Botanical Garden. The 

 old doorway in the middle of the north side of Dr. Daubeny's 

 Lecture Room was replaced by a window ; a doorway to 

 communicate with the new hall being opened in the place of 

 the end window shown in Plate 2. The little brick-paved court 

 to the east of the old building was roofed over and is used 

 as a still-room for the preparation of distilled water ; and the 

 chamber under the telescope, provided with a wood-block 

 floor and lighted by a new window cut through the western 

 wall, has made an excellent workshop. 



The principal changes which have been effected in the 

 interior are the conversion of the large Laboratory into a lecture 

 room, by the removal of the benches and cupboards to the 

 new room on the ground floor, and also by the removal of 

 the cupboards which covered the windows above the north 

 gallery, shown in Plate 2. The floor, weakened by dry rot 

 owing to deficient ventilation, had to be almost entirely 

 renewed. The Science Tutor's Room, formerly Dr. Daubeny's 

 study (Plate 3), was equipped for the performance of experi- 

 ments in Physical Chemistry, for which the situation near the 



