THE BANGOR LABORATORIES. 487 



" What ! do the theologians learn physics ? " I 

 said, " Yes, they all do ; and many of them have 

 made capital experiments." I believe they do not 

 find that their theology suffers at all from having 

 learned something of mathematics, and dynamics 

 and experimental physics before they enter upon 

 it. I had then no other premises than the old 

 lecture-room and the adjoining apparatus room. 

 To meet my requirements for my new volunteer 

 laboratory corps, the " Faculty (the then govern- 

 ing body of the College) allotted to me an old wine- 

 cellar, part of an old professor's house, the rest of 

 which had been converted into lecture-rooms. 

 This, with the bins swept away, and a water- 

 supply and a sink added, served as physical 

 laboratory (a name then unknown) for several 

 years, nil the University Commissioners came and 

 abolished a certain old function of Glasgow 

 University, the " Blackstone Examination." The 

 examination room was left unprotected, its talis- 

 man, the old " Blackstone Chair," removed. I 

 instantly annexed it (it was very convenient, ad- 

 joining the old wine-cellar and below the apparatus 



