112 THE NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS AT BERLIN. 



For the support and increase of tbe uuiseuni 1,000 thaler ($750) were 

 allowed annually since August, 1816, which amount has since been in- 

 creased to 5,020 mark ($1,255), not to include the personal expenses. 



The museum contains the following divisions: 



(1) Systematic mineralogical collection. 



(2) Display collection of large specimens. 



(3) Collection of cut stones and rocks. 



(4) Meteorite collection. 



(5) Systematic geognostic collection. 



(6) Geographical collection, or the geognostic collection of the vari- 

 ous countries of the earth. 



(7) The pal iron tological collection. 



(8) The library, with collection of charts, well supplied with topo- 

 graphical maps and geognostic maps by the L. v. Borch collection. 



The First Chemical Institute. — It is certainlj^ a very remarkable fact 

 that of all the German universities that of Berlin should have been the 

 very last to organize a chemical institute, comprising everything re- 

 quired for the present state of science, since the chemists connected 

 with the University during the first fifty years of its existence occupy a 

 prominent place among the most celebrated investigators of the present 

 century. 



But if, notwithstanding such illustrious representations, a great 

 chemical institute was not established until about twenty years ago, it 

 must be considered that at the time of the foundation of the University 

 chemistry was already existing in the academy of sciences, and that the 

 chemical chair at the University was generally occupied by the academical 

 chemist, and hence the University was relieved, in a measure, from the 

 responsibility of providing laboratories for the chemical professors. 



The Chemical Institute of the University owes its existence to the 

 energy of the Minister of Education in demanding the appointment of a 

 university professor for the chemical chair. 



The selection of a proper site was the next difficulty to overcome, and 

 this was accomplished by the purchase, for the sum of 72,000 mark 

 ($18,000) from the Academy of a portion of its own estate, to which suf- 

 cient additional ground was obtained for the erection of an edifice, which 

 was begun in 1865 and completed in 1867. 



In addition to the sum estimated, 75,000 mark ($18,750) wereexpeuded 

 on the internal arrangements ; thus, counting all necessary expenditures, 

 including the 72,000 mark ($18,000) paid the academy and two-thirds of 

 the purchase money paid for the additional lot (only two-thirds of the 

 ground having been used in the erection of the building), 954,000 mark 

 ($238,500) were willingly paid by the Prussian Government for the 

 erection of tlie new institute. 



The Second Chemical Institute.— This institute was established simul- 

 tfiiieously witli the Pharmacological Instftute, and opened on Easter, 



