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The design of the buildings, which are of marble, is distinctly 

 Grecian, and when completed they will form a noteworthy group 

 merely from the architectural point of view. The work of construc- 

 tion is being pushed forward as rapidly as possible. At the time of 

 present writing, the building to be devoted to hygiene and pharma- 

 cology is farthest advanced towards completion; the walls are up on 

 the one for surgery, bacteriology and pathology; the iron framework 

 and the walls are in position for the one for physiology and physio- 

 logical chemistry, and the building for histology and embryology is 

 nearly as far advanced. Only the foundation and a little of the upper 

 portion of the administration building have been erected. 



It is of interest to note that much of the funds that have been so 

 generously contributed to enable the Harvard Medical School to make 

 this forward leap is INTew York money. Mr. J. P. Morgan gave the 

 three buildings at the back of the group, and Mrs. Collis P. Hunting- 

 ton and Mr. David Sears gave the buildings in the foreground. Ac- 

 cording to the treasurer's report and other accounts, Mr. Morgan gave 

 $1,135,000; Mrs. Huntington, $250,000; Mr. Sears, $250,000, and 

 to these sums must be added a million from Mr. John D. Rockefeller, 

 nearly $371,000 from Henry L. Pierce (1898) and about a half mil- 

 lion dollars from other sources. 



In the erection of such an extended plant for the medical school all 

 possible precautions have been taken to make it suit its purpose in all 

 respects, and to allow for the expansion of the school and for in- 

 creased demands on the part of medical instruction. 



The four main laboratory buildings have each two wings; and not 

 only have the assignments of location for each department been care- 

 fully considered as regards the school as a whole, but the allied or 

 supplementary subjects are placed in the wings that are united through 

 a common center. Connecting these wings is an amphitheater over 

 which are placed the special libraries pertaining to the departments 

 occupying the wings. The arrangement of these departments is such 

 as to place in the same building those that are most intimately con- 

 nected. The actual arrangement adopted has already been outlined 

 in the mention of the various buildings at the beginning of this article. 

 It must be remarked in addition that the study of surgery is provided 

 for in various departments. The arrangement of the wings is such 

 that they may be extended as the school grows so as to ultimately have 

 three-fold the working capacity at present provided for. In the con- 

 struction of the various buildings and their adaptation to their special 

 purposes, the questions of light, heat and ventilation have been care- 

 fully considered; especial use of the principle of lighting by high 

 windows has been made since ibis insures a good light at the rear of 

 the rooms. 



