100 DR. SHIPLEY'S REMINISCENCES 



Altar-pieee of plaster of Paris representing the two 

 Marys at the Sepulchre after the Resurrection, in 

 alto-relievo, by the ingenious Mr. CoUins." The words 

 " neat " and " neatness " were overworked words in the 

 middle of the last century and probably felt correspond- 

 ingly tired. 



But to return to the chapel ; towards the end of the 

 seventeenth century the space in the roof had been 

 floored in to make an upper chamber in which the 

 College Library was then placed, but about the time of 

 Newton's arrival at Magdalene this upper story was 

 removed, and the chapel was heightened, and by adding 

 to it part of the Master's old Lodge lengthened. These 

 " lodgings " had occupied the area now covered by the 

 College Library, with an outer staircase and a northern 

 wing, both of which disappeared when the present Lodge 

 to the north of the College was built in 1835. 



The restoration of the chapel began in 1847 and lasted 

 over a period of four or five years. During this time aU 

 the " incongruities were swept away and the chapel 

 skilfully and beautifully restored to its original Gothic 

 character ; the fine, high-pitched timber roof of the 

 fifteenth century was once more restored to view ; the 

 entire building fitted up with richly-carved and appro- 

 priate wood-work ; the east window opened and with 

 two side windows filled with painted glass." To those 

 of us who only knew the Professor as a living and teach- 

 ing zoologist it came as a surprise when we learned that 

 he had painted one of the figures of these windows. He 

 himself never alluded to it. 



On the southern slope of Magdalene towards the 

 river is now an open garden, with a parapet and water- 

 gate — ^which no one ever seems to use — ^flanked at the 

 eastern end by the new buildings of the kitchen and by 

 a comely set of students' quarters. These last buildings 



