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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



researches in electricit}' and magnetism. On the second floor there is 

 a large general optical and chemical laborator}^, a large lecture hall, 

 and other rooms. On the third floor is a laboratory for beginners, a 

 lecture hall, and other rooms. Here also is provisionally established 

 the mathematical and astronomical department of the university. 

 The central part of the fourth floor forms a hall for experiments 

 re([uiring a large space. The roof above this is flat and suitable for 

 observation in the open air. 



HULL BIOLOGRAL LAB( )KATOKlE.S. 



The Hull laboratories (tig. 73) are four buildings, erected according 

 to a common plan, connected partly by covered cloisters, and forming 



Fig. 73.— University of Chicago. Hull biological (physiological and anatomical) laboratories. 



three sides of a large court. They were given by Miss Helen Culver and 

 named in memory of her uncle. They were opened in 1897. In the 

 letter of presentation it was said that the whole sum of 11,000,000 

 should be devoted " to the increase and spread of knowledge within 

 the field of the biological sciences," and that a portion of it should be 

 applied for sustaining an inland experimental station and a marine 

 laboratory and to the regular delivery of popular lectures upon the 

 advances of science in sanitation and hygiene. It was also provided 

 that only one-half of the sum should be used for the erection of 

 buildings, but that the interest on the other half should be applied to 

 the support of research, instruction, and publication. In accordance 

 with this plan a zoological, a physiological, an anatomical, and a 



