The earth and its inhabitants (1882) (14586447879)

Identifier: earthitsinhabita04recl (find matches)
Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, Augustus Henry, 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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side of the Royalists, and it was within itswalls that Charles I. established his head-quarters during the war. Since that timeOxford has taken a pride in being looked upon as the stronghold of Conservatism.Of late, however, its traditions have received a rude shock. Some of its professorsand students are being carried along by a current of new ideas, and Oxford maynow be said to send forth champions who ably represent the most extreme viewsof either side. Nor is there another town where, thanks to the labours of thepast, arguments in favour of the most opposite views can so readily be commanded ;for nowhere else, not even in London, are similar facilities for study concentratedwithin so small an area. Laboratories, libraries, and scientific collections areattached to every college, and, in addition to these, there are the ever-increasingcollections of the university. The new Natural-History Museum—it was onlybuilt 1855-60—is rapidly growing into importance. The Taylor Buildings I
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OXFORDSHIRE. 155 contain the university library, whilst the adjoining Galleries afford accommo-dation to the famous Pomfret marbles and a collection of paintings and drawings,most precious amongst which are 162 original designs by Raphael and 79 byMichael Angelo. Radcliffe Library, named after its founder, the physician ofWilliam III., to whom the university is likewise indebted for its observatory,occupies a handsome rotunda, surmounted by a dome rising from an octagonal base. Fig. 85.—The Environs of Oxford.Scale 1 : 250.000