The influential writer John Ruskin was an Oxford graduate and had many later connections with the university, being appointed the first Slade Professor of Fine Art in 1868. He also assisted Sir Henry Acland in raising funds for the building of a University Museum (chiefly of natural history) and its decoration in the late 1850s. Ruskin made ten designs for the sculptural ornament of the Gothic Revival building's windows, although only a little was ever executed.