LABORATORIES AND THEIR EQUIPMENT 



lined) with several taps, and cases with glass fronts for 

 storing museum specimens, materials, etc. Lockers 

 or drawer cases, when built away from the wall (as 

 in Fig. i), should not be over four feet high, in order 

 not to obstruct a free view around the room. 1 



Of instruments the first in importance are the scal- 

 pel, two needles in handles, forceps, and hand lens, 

 which should be supplied as a loan to each student, 

 together with a box to keep them in. These may 



FIG. 6. A successful set of dissecting instruments, with case. 



be bought in various forms and qualities at prices 

 from 75 cents upward per set from any of the firms 

 mentioned later. For use with my own classes I 

 have designed the set, together with their leatherette 

 case, figured herewith (Fig. 6), which is manufactured 

 for me at $1.20 each by Williams, Brown, and Earle, 

 of Philadelphia, and which has proved very satisfactory. 

 It includes all instruments essential in elementary work. 



1 There are valuable hints upon these points, and upon other matters 

 connected with laboratories, in a fully illustrated article on " Repre- 

 sentative American Laboratories," in the Journal of Applied Microscopy 

 (Rochester, N.Y.), Vol. I, 1898, pp. 22-32. 



