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Fall term of the Junior year and this was followed by Zoology during 

 the remainder of the term. In the Senior year, (leology was taken 

 during the Fall term and Paleontology during the Winter. About half 

 as much scientific work was reijuired of students in the Classical and 

 Philosophical Courses. With the addition of new studies and appli- 

 ances, the amount of floor space devoted to the work had been in- 

 creased more than threefold by the sacrifice of dormitory rooms on the 

 first and second floor of the " New Brick," and thus the work of in- 

 struction was made much more effective than it had been in former 

 years A temporary water supply for the work of the laboratories had 

 been secured by drilling a well on top of College Hill and putting in a 

 wind pump, but this never furnished a satisfactory supply and was soon 

 superseded by the Granville water works, constructed during the year 

 1885-6. For the remainder of the year of Profes.sor Osbun's death, 

 the work of the department of Chemistry and Physics was done by 

 Nathan F. Merril, Ph D. At the opening of the following year, Pro- 

 fessor A. D. Cole, a graduate of Brown, who had been doing Post- 

 Graduate work at Johns Hopkins, took charge of the department and 

 still remains, having been absent one year pursuing special researches 

 in Physics at the University of Berlin. During his absence, the work 

 of the chair was in the hands of INIr. E. P. Childs, a graduate of Den- 

 ison, and now Professor of Science in the High School of Pueblo, 

 Colorado. The development of the Department under Professor Cole 

 made necessary in i8y6 the employment of an Assistant, Mr. H. C. 

 McNeil, who graduated from Denison in the Scientific Course with 

 the class of that year. Previous to the endowment of this Department, 

 some work in Physics had been done by Professor Gilpatrick, in addi- 

 tion to his work in Mathematics, and still earlier by Professor Marsh. 

 The work in Astronomy, done by the Professor of Mathematics, still 

 connects this chair closely with the scientific portion of the Faculty ; 

 and the Assistant in Mathematics, Mr. W. H. Boughton. gives a por- 

 tion of his time to instruction in Physics and Chemistry. 



