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er may see by an inspection of the accompanying cut, and, to show 

 the convenient arrangements of the interior, we give a brief descrip- 

 tion. 



The main building is 60 by 30 feet in the clear, two stories in 

 liight. The lower story is divided into two large rooms ; the front 

 room 32 by 30 feet^ is the general class room, and will accommodate 

 over one hundred persons. It contains cases of philosophical ap- 

 paratus, minerals, etc ; it communicates with the Laboratory above 

 by a dumb waiter, for the transfer of apparatus during chemical 

 lectures. In the rear of the room is the workshop fitted with a sink 

 in the corner next the class room, and supplied with water, from 

 the main tank, in the Laboratory above. It is also furnished with 

 a cast iron portable forge. Queen's patent, which will also answer 

 for an assay furnace, with a lathe for brass work, a brass founder's 

 furnace, a work bench and tools for metallic work, and a work bench 

 and tools for wood work. These two rooms are each twelve feet 

 high and well lighted. 



The story above is devoted to the working laboratory ; it is 60 by 

 30 ft. and 18 feet high, and lighted by twelve long windows; thus 

 forming one of the lightest, and best ventilated laboratories ever 

 constructed. A leaden tank filled from the roof, supplies water to 

 the operators, as they stand at the side tables, furnished with wash- 

 bowls. A door at the side of the large room opens into the furnace 

 room 26 by 12 feet, also supplied with water from the tank. A door 

 on the opposite side opens into the balance room, of the same size 

 as the furnace room, in which the fine balances, and choice metallic 

 apparatus are to be kept. 



One of the rooms in the wings is devoted to microscopic research, 

 one of Smith & Beck's best instruments having been ordered for the 

 Institution. The other rooms in the wings are designed for the 

 different Professors. 



A tract of twenty acres around the building is devoted to the Bo- 

 tanic Garden ; its varied surface beautifully arranged by a skillful 

 artist, into wooded knowl, winding walk, and picturesque vale, 

 grotto and lakelet. It is designed to have every kind of tree or 

 shrub that will grow in the open air represented here. This, with 

 the farm adjacent, affords every facility for the scientific student, 

 and if he does not make rapid progress with all these conveniences, 

 it will be from a want of application. 



