THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 



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first floor. 

 Ground Plan of the Engineering Building, University of Pennsylvania 



cupy the middle portion. In the east 

 and west wings ample space is assigned 

 to the engineering museums, while the 

 rear of this floor is set aside exclusively 

 for additional drawing rooms, which, 

 like those just beneath, will have the 

 full advantage of a north light. 



The engineering department of the 

 university was established in 1874, but 

 the constant increase of numbers in the 

 classes of the departments has necessi- 

 tated their moving into more spacious 

 quarters three times since their found- 

 ing. The departments this year have a 

 total enrollment of nearly six hundred 

 students, and a teaching force of forty. 



As Mr. Taylor said at the close of 

 his address: "Philadelphia is the cen- 

 ter of the largest and most diversified 

 group of engineering and manufactur- 

 ing enterprises in this country. The 

 engineering schools of the University of 

 Pennsylvania already stand high; but 

 it seems to me that the opportunity lies 

 open to them even more than to their 

 famous medical and law schools to 

 stand at the very top. This magnifi- 

 cent building, equipped as it is with 

 the latest and best of everything, is the 



first and a great step towards this end. 

 But after all, your largest possibility 

 and one which does not exist for, and 

 can not be created by, any other Amer- 

 ican university, lies in the opportunity 

 for bringing your students into close 

 touch and personal contact with the 

 men who are working in and managing 

 the great industrial establishments of 

 Philadelphia." 



THE HARVEIAN ORATION 

 The Harveian oration, delivered an- 

 nually before the Royal College of Phy- 

 sicians, London, was given on October 

 18 by Dr. William Osier, regius pro- 

 fessor of medicine in the University of 

 Oxford, and formerly professor of med- 

 icine in the Johns Hopkins University, 

 who chose as his subject ' The Growth 

 of Truth : as illustrated in the discov- 

 ery of the circulation of the blood.' 

 With his felicity of expression and 

 wealth of knowledge of the history of 

 medicine and science, Dr. Osier reviewed 

 again the instructive story of the dis- 

 covery. Though rehearsed now for two 

 hundred and fifty years by Harveian 

 orators, the story loses in Dr. Osier's 



