MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. 263 



a building erected in 1892, 58 by 68 feet on the ground, and now 

 forming part of the Engineering Building. Adjoining this is the Henry 

 L. Pierce Building, erected in 1898, and measuring 58 by 160 feet. In 

 addition to these buildings are the workshops, about a quarter of a mile 

 distant, covering 24,000 square feet, and a gymnasium and drill hall. 



The first laboratory to be established at the institute was that of 

 chemistry, and this leads us to speak first of the department of chem- 

 istry. The laboratory of general chemistry was opened in 1876 under 

 the direction of Professors Eliot* and Storer, and is believed to be 

 the first laboratory where instruction was given in general chemistry 

 to classes of considerable size. From small beginnings, this depart- 





u 



S ^srr 



_I§ _^ 



One of the Chemical Laboratories. 



ment has rapidly grown under the able direction of such men as 

 James M. Crafts, (since 1897 president of the Institute), William Kipley 

 Nichols, Charles H. Wing, Lewis M. Norton and Thomas M. Drown, 

 until now the instructing force consists of five professors, thirteen 

 instructors and six assistants, a total teaching force of twenty-four, in 

 addition to seven or eight lecturers on chemical subjects. The depart- 

 ment occupies the two upper floors in the Walker Building, together 

 with about half of one floor in the Henry L. Pierce Building, devoted 

 to industrial chemistry. Tire laboratories, which are said to be the 



Now President Eliot of Harvard. 



