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will not only promote each professor's work, but will place four 

 closely allied divisions of the station in the same building — a 

 great advantage over the present arrangement. While the build- 

 ing will be largely used by the College of Agriculture, all parts 

 of it, except the class rooms, will be used by the station as well. 



The preliminary sketches, which have already been prepared, 

 show a four-story building (Plate I) about two hundred feet long, 

 in shape somewhat like the letter H. The middle portion of the 

 building is, through the four stories, given up entirely to museum 

 purposes, while the ends are subdivided into class-rooms and 

 laboratories, as described below. The building according to 

 these preliminary plans is founded upon the motives of early Six- 

 teenth Century French architecture. 



The floor space will exceed 40,000 square feet, one-third of 

 which will be devoted to a museum and cabinets of illustrative 

 material and station appliances. 



The ground floor (Plate II) will contain heavy farm machinery, 

 and power for making tests, a fire-proof room for drying large 

 samples of green material, a wood-working and repair shop, an 

 earth and potting room, a general reading-room, and laboratories. 



The first floor (Plate III) will contain not only a museum, but 

 cases in which to place station material for the divisions of agri- 

 culture and horticulture, and will give eight rooms which will be 

 used by both station and college as occasion requires. As the 

 college and station work must always run parallel, it is expected 

 that great economy of time and appliances will be secured, in 

 concentrating the work of the professors so far as may be practi- 

 cable. It is not expected that the plant-houses and operating- 

 room will be used to an}- large extent by the station, as the de- 

 partments for which they were designed have, or will have, de- 

 tached buildings for conducting more extended research than 

 could be carried on in them while they were being used for the 

 purposes of instruction. 



The second floor, (Plate IV), like the first, will be used ex- 

 clusively by two divisions of the station and two allied depart- 

 ments of the college. Here, too, as in the other departments 

 already spoken of, it is hoped to economize time and space and 

 promote efficiency by placing the two-fold work of the professors 

 in juxtaposition. Two staircases at the rear lead to the plant- 

 houses and the operating-room, which are on a level with the 

 first floor. 



