THE ALUMNI JOURNAL. 



The First Floor, a few steps above the street level, contains the 

 Office of the College, the Library, with the best collection of books on 

 Pharmacy and the allied sciences in the United States ; the fine Canby 

 Herbarium, recently acquired by the College at great expense ; the hand- 

 some meeting room for the College members and the various affiliated societies, 

 such as the Board of Pharmacy of the City of New York, and the Alumni 

 Association. Here also will be found the Trustees' Room. 



The Second and Third Floors are devoted to the Lecture Room, 

 and accomodations for the preparation of lectures, with special rooms for 

 Quizzes. The lecture room is built to accommodate 500 students, and seats 

 are provided for 400. It has been designed without columns to give every 

 student an unobstructed view of the lecture table, and every seat is an 

 independent and comfortable arm-chair, with an extension on the right arm, 

 that students may take notes with comfort and dispatch. This room is lighted 

 in such a manner that the faces of both professors and students are 

 protected from glare. The heating and ventilation is by machinery specially 

 constructed for the purpose, and the most perfect of its kind. 



On the Fourth floor is located the Department of Botany and 

 Materia Medica. Here will be found the Museum of Materia Medica, the 

 Microscopical Laboratory, for 100 students, working at microscopes together; 

 also, special rooms for the accommodation of the Professor of the Department 

 and his assistants. Quiz rooms take up part of the fourth floor. 



On the Fifth floor is located the Pharmaceutical Laboratory, 

 which will accommodate 450 students, 150 working simultaneously ; each 

 student having his own individual closet and drawer for apparatus. There is 

 probably no laboratory in the world so well fitted for the instruction of students 

 in practical pharmacy. The floors are asphalt, perfectly water-tight, and the 

 drainage has been designed with special reference to pharmaceutical manipu- 

 lations, on a practical scale. The heating and ventilation of this laboratory 

 has been thoroughly studied and arranged for. On this floor also are the 

 supply room for the laboratory, a scale room and accommodations for the 

 director and his assistants. 



On the Sixth floor is located the Chemical Laboratory, with accom- 

 modotions for 450 students, or 150 working simultaneously; each student 



