'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)