The University created a Chair of Chemistry for Giovanni Francisco Vigani in 1702. Successive professors lectured and demonstrated before the University, but formal study of the subject at undergraduate level did not enter the curriculum until the establishment of the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1851. The professor was given an official lecture room, shared with the Professor of Anatomy, in the newly vacated printing house on Queens' Lane between 1716 and 1786. In that year he moved into a new building in the Botanical Gardens; now shared with the Jacksonian Professor of Natural (Experimental) Philosophy and the Professor of Botany. The site of the Botanical Gardens was steadily developed, as the 'New Museums site', from the mid nineteenth century onwards for the study of sciences of all kinds. A purpose-built Chemistry laboratory fronting Free School Lane, Downing Street and Pembroke Street was completed in 1888. In the 1920s it was twice extended. In 1958, the Department moved to new, much more spacious accommodation on Lensfield Road. For historical information, see the following printed sources: W.H. Mills, 'Schools of Chemistry in Great Britain and Ireland, 6: the University of Cambridge', Journal of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, 77 (1953), pp.423-31, 467-73 [ULC classmark P360.c.230.30]; John Read, Humour and humanism in Chemistry (G. Bell and Sons Ltd.; London, 1947) pp.284-300 [ULC classmark 360:13.c.90.7]; U.R. Evans and W.C. Lister, 'Memories of the Chemical Laboratory' in ACUA Review 1954, pp.30-4 [University Archives classmark ACUA 24); Mary D. Archer and Christopher D. Haley (eds.), The Vigani Chair of Chemistry at Cambridge: transformation and change (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2005) [ULC classmark: Cam.c.2005.2]..