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The Sedgwick Geological Museum. 



ing has doubtless been made for the 

 laboratories and lecture rooms, not as 

 sometimes happens in university archi- 

 tecture, imitated from some model 

 built at a time when there were no 

 laboratories. A hundred years hence 

 such buildings will probably appear in 

 better taste and more truly beautiful 

 than our gothic and classic imitations, 

 built without reference to their uses. 

 The cost of the botanical building paid 



from the endowment or benefactors 

 fund mentioned above is about $130,- 

 000. It contains in addition to the 

 herbarium and museum and a large 

 elementary laboratory, laboratories for 

 physiology, morphology and chemistry, 

 and some ten private and research 

 rooms. The engineering department 

 has taken over the room formerly used 

 for botany. 



The Medical School Building with 



