Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map . nd the capitals are beauti-fully carved represen-vmmmS^&:. tations of natural ob- jects. Thus —toquote the Professor—this is not a hap-hazard collection ofpretty stones crownedwith pretty flowers ;but a selection of mar-bles and sculpturesintended to illustratepoints of some interestand importance inscience and art. Onmassive corbels, pro-jecting from the frontsof the piers on theground floor, areplaced statues of meneminent in the severalbranches of naturalscience. Her Majestythe Queen presentedstatues of the first
Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map . nd the capitals are beauti-fully carved represen-vmmmS^&:. tations of natural ob- jects. Thus —toquote the Professor—this is not a hap-hazard collection ofpretty stones crownedwith pretty flowers ;but a selection of mar-bles and sculpturesintended to illustratepoints of some interestand importance inscience and art. Onmassive corbels, pro-jecting from the frontsof the piers on theground floor, areplaced statues of meneminent in the severalbranches of naturalscience. Her Majestythe Queen presentedstatues of the first ofthe modern school,—Francis, Lord Bacon,and four other eminentscientists ; the last(John Hunter) was un-veiled by the PrincessChristian, May 30th,1886. Round thearcade are arrangedthe various rooms re-\%i;- .,..,.;. _? ... ....:.?. L-ial:>-???? quired for each de- statue of lord bacon, in the museum- partment of study. Removed from the principal pile north and south, yet easilyaccessible from the lecture-rooms and court, are dissecting-rooms,. Museum, Observatory, and Laboratories. 17 workshops, furnace rooms, and laboratories ; the great ChemicalLaboratory (enlarged in 187S) forming a strikingly picturesqueobject at the angle. On the upper floor of the Museum is a Theatre or Lecture Room seating600 persons ; also a room devoted to cabinets of the choicest butterflies, moths,&c., forming the Hopeian Entomological collection ; and extending 200 feetalong the W. front is the valuable Radcliffe Library of Natural Science,open daily from 10 till 4. and on certain evenings during Term from 7 to 9 persons are admitted to read, on satisfactory recommendation. The Pitt Rivers Collection is contained in an annexe tothe main building, of tasteful design, which was opened in 1887. This collection consists of musical instruments, implements of war, models ofboats, pottery and other ornamental art, intended by its donor, General PittRivers, D. , F. (for
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