Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map . glass in its east window is by Bernard Van Linge, 1621. Thenew organ gallery and organ case are from designs by Mr. Jackson ; and therehas recently been added an Old Communion Table of carved oak {temp. Eliz.)from Ilminster Church, Somerset, where Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham onceworshipped. The Dining Hall adjoining has a handsome screen and loftytimber roof, and contains a number of portraits ; over the entrance are sculpturedfigures of the founders and King James I. Corresponding with the chapel, andcommunicating
Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map . glass in its east window is by Bernard Van Linge, 1621. Thenew organ gallery and organ case are from designs by Mr. Jackson ; and therehas recently been added an Old Communion Table of carved oak {temp. Eliz.)from Ilminster Church, Somerset, where Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham onceworshipped. The Dining Hall adjoining has a handsome screen and loftytimber roof, and contains a number of portraits ; over the entrance are sculpturedfigures of the founders and King James I. Corresponding with the chapel, andcommunicating with it by a cloister, is the Library. The other three sides ofthe quadrangle comprise lodgings for the warden, fellows, and Garden is entered through a passage at the left-hand corner : thoughsmall comparatively, it possesses many beauties, and affords a picturesque viewof the Chapel, Library, &c. Amongst the eminent members of this collegewere Admiral Blake, Sir Christopher Wren, Seth Ward, Harris, author of the11 Hermes, Dr. Kennicott, and The University Museum. 15 Leaving Wadham College, and pursuing our course northwardby a pleasantly shaded path, with the gardens of Wadham on theright and those of Trinity (61) and St. Johns (55) on the left,we suddenly come upon the stately pile known as 9. The University Museum, completed in i860, fromdesigns by Messrs. Deaneand Woodward.* This Museum is muchmore than a mere collection of curiosities ; it is, in fact, about themost comprehensive and complete institution in the world for theteaching and study of the Natural Sciences. Its objects are thusbriefly summarized by Sir Henry W. Acland, , :— First, to give the learner a general idea of the planet on which he lives, ofits constituent parts, and the relations which it occupies as a world amongworlds ; and, secondly, to enable him to study, in the most complete andscientific manner, any detailed portion which his powers qualify him to grasp
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