. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . experimental physics, at the cost of the Clarendontrustees, out of a fund arising from the publication of certain jNISS. of EarlClarendon, formerly Lord Chancellor. In the rear of this are the Physio-logical Laboratory, erected in 1885 at a cost of ;^ii,coo; and theMorphological Laboratory, with lecture-theatre, &c., added in the- Pitt Rivers Museum eastward are a dissecting-room, museum,lecture-theatre, &c., for the department of Human Anatomy, openedin 1893 ; and beyond it southward


. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . experimental physics, at the cost of the Clarendontrustees, out of a fund arising from the publication of certain jNISS. of EarlClarendon, formerly Lord Chancellor. In the rear of this are the Physio-logical Laboratory, erected in 1885 at a cost of ;^ii,coo; and theMorphological Laboratory, with lecture-theatre, &c., added in the- Pitt Rivers Museum eastward are a dissecting-room, museum,lecture-theatre, &c., for the department of Human Anatomy, openedin 1893 ; and beyond it southward a spacious Pathological Laboratoryis now provided at a cost of about /io,ooo ; comprising lecture-rooms,photographic studio, refrigerating chamber, engine-room, c^c. These numerousadditions, designed by various architects, present a curious medley of archi-tectural styles, all more or less divergent from that of the main buildin^ offorty years ago, when Mr. Ruskins ideas were dominant in Oxford. The Astronomical Observatory, built in 1874 for the use1903-] c Aldens Oxford of the Savilian Professor, is a detached building in the grounds E. It is fitted up with all the best apparatus for the study of Physical Astronomy,including the celebrated reflecting telescope and other valuable instrumentspresented by the late Dr. Warren De la Rue, Facing the Museum is Marcons Hall, formerly Charsley Hall, the firstprivate Hall founded under the statute of 1858. At the opposite corner, N.,is the residence of the Warden of Keble, which forms part of the E. front of 10. Keble CoHege, opened by the Marquis of Salisbury,Chancellor of the University, June 23rd, 1870. It was founded by subscription in mtmory of the author ofthe Christian Year,—the late Rev. John Keble,sometime Fellow and Tutor of Oriel College (see24), for perpetuating academic education definitelybased upon the principles of the Church of Eng-land, and with the intention of combining soberliving and high culture


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