Cites Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson
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'Professor Burdon-Sanderson, on coming to Oxford from University College, London, in 1882, as Waynflete Professor of Physiology, found the Daubeny Laboratory suitable for his experimental work. There was no laboratory connected with his Chair.

The small rooms on the upper floor were at this time devoted to Physiology, and the westernmost was specially fitted up as a dark room for Professor Burdon-Sanderson, and there, assisted by Dr. Gotch, he carried on his researches on Dionaea. [note: J. Burdon-Sanderson, On the Electromotive Properties of the Leaf of Dionaea in the Excited and Unexcited States. Second Paper. Philosophical Transactions , vol. 179, pp. 417-49. 1888.']' (23)

Cites Prof Francis Gotch
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'Professor Burdon-Sanderson, on coming to Oxford from University College, London, in 1882, as Waynflete Professor of Physiology, found the Daubeny Laboratory suitable for his experimental work. There was no laboratory connected with his Chair.

The small rooms on the upper floor were at this time devoted to Physiology, and the westernmost was specially fitted up as a dark room for Professor Burdon-Sanderson, and there, assisted by Dr. Gotch, he carried on his researches on Dionaea. [note: J. Burdon-Sanderson, On the Electromotive Properties of the Leaf of Dionaea in the Excited and Unexcited States. Second Paper. Philosophical Transactions , vol. 179, pp. 417-49. 1888.']' (23)

Cites Charles John Francis Yule
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'In 1874 a new and important development in the teaching of the University took place, when Messrs. Chapman, Lawson, and Yule arranged courses of instruction in biological subjects on new lines. To these courses of instruction our physiological teaching on modern lines traces its origin, and owing to them the Daubeny Laboratory came by the name of the Physiological Laboratory.

The Biological Courses at the Daubeny Laboratory were, no doubt, intended to supplement the deficiencies in the University Courses... Courses on Histology and Physiology were arranged by Mr. Yule.

The lectures were open to Magdalen, Merton, and Trinity men...

In 1876 a series of more popular lectures and practical Lectures demonstrations in Physiology, by Mr. Yule in conjunction with Professor Lawson on Vegetable Physiology, and Mr. Chapman on Chemical Physics, was delivered to a class of artisans in the Laboratory, which was lent by the College for that purpose. A lecture was delivered every Saturday evening, at seven o'clock, of about an hour's length, and the two following hours were employed in practically verifying by dissection and experiment the leading points of the lecture, for which purpose each student was supplied with a working-place to himself and the apparatus necessary for his work. The numbers were restricted to eight, and Mr. F. J. Bell, now Professor of Comparative Anatomy at King's College, London, assisted both in the teaching and preparation of the lectures.

Mr. C. J. F. Yule, although originally a Brackenbury Scholar of Balliol, migrated to Cambridge, where, as a Scholar of St. John's College, he had studied Physiology with Michael Foster, and was known by a paper on Urari when elected to a Fellowship at Magdalen. On his return to Oxford he found that work along modern lines was impossible in the University Laboratories, for Professor Rolleston, although nominally the Linacre Professor of Physiology, was devoting his chief attention to Comparative Anatomy, and had not followed the latest developments of Physiological Research.

The thorough nature of Yule's Physiological Course is indicated by the syllabus compiled by him in 1878, entitled Syllabus of a Years Course of Practical Work in the Physiological Laboratory of Magdalen College ', Oxford. Circulation and Respiration were studied in the Michaelmas Term, the Nervous System in the Lent Term, while the Easter Term was devoted to Digestion and Animal Chemistry.

From this development in the teaching the need for modern instruments of precision naturally arose, and the College voted in 1876 a grant for the purpose of procuring them. Of the apparatus which was then added to our collections we cannot speak too highly, for without the Oertling Balance, the Elliott-Thomson Galvanometer, and the Chronographs, much good research could not have been accomplished.

Mr. Yule still further increased the efficiency of the Laboratory for Physiological Research, by causing it to be registered as a place where experiments upon living animals could be carried on. At his request the College passed the following Order : 'That the College consent to their Laboratory being registered under 38 and 39 Victoria, Cap. 27, for the performance of experiments under the said Act ' (Meeting of October 13, 1877). The licence was granted by the Home Office on October 25, 1877.

The University Physiological Laboratory had not so much as been thought of in those days, and was not opened for work until 1885. Many therefore availed themselves of the opportunity for quiet study which the College Laboratory, the only Physiological Laboratory in Oxford, afforded. Among them my friend Dr. Dixey, who, in relating some of his experiences of these early days, enlarged on the benefit he had obtained from it, and extolled Yule's undoubted genius. We find that on February 9, 1882, the latter, applying for a renewal of the licence, could write, 'I am at present the only person teaching Physiology in this University.' And Professor Burdon-Sanderson, on coming to Oxford from University College, London, in 1882, as Waynflete Professor of Physiology, found the Daubeny Laboratory suitable for his experimental work. There was no laboratory connected with his Chair.

The small rooms on the upper floor were at this time devoted to Physiology, and the westernmost was specially fitted up as a dark room for Professor Burdon-Sanderson, and there, assisted by Dr. Gotch, he carried on his researches on Dionaea. [note: J. Burdon-Sanderson, On the Electromotive Properties of the Leaf of Dionaea in the Excited and Unexcited States. Second Paper. Philosophical Transactions , vol. 179, pp. 417-49. 1888.']' (21-23)