VI PREFACE 



hoped that the results to be achieved in it may be in 

 proportion. But in the meantime the beginning of a new 

 order seemed a fitting moment for gathering up the story of 

 the work done in the smaller building. Of the history of 

 Natural Science in the University this story forms only a 

 chapter, and to that of Natural Science generally it is, to 

 use R. L. Stevenson's happy expression, 'but a footnote.' 



Yet as such it appeared to the College worth putting on 

 record and giving to the world. If that opinion was correct, 

 and if it should find any acceptance and prove of any use, our 

 thanks are due, and we trust those of the reader will be 

 added, to Mr. Giinther for the diligent and complete manner 

 in which this record has been compiled, and to Mr. Giinther 

 and Mr. Chapman for the plates which give an additional 

 interest to the volume. 



T. HERBERT WARREN. 



MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD, 

 January, 1904. 



