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therefore the Mecca of all the special as 

 well as the g-eneral students, and no 

 more congenial place for study could be 

 devised than its excellently arranged 

 reading rooms. The special libraries are 

 very complete for each of the groups of 

 sciences, and great attention has been 

 paid to current periodical literature as 

 the basis foi- advanced work. 



Botanical Laboratories. 



The laboratories for vegetable his- 

 tology, phanerogamic botany, compara- 

 tive morphology, and embryology, my- 

 cology, algology, and kindred subjects 

 are still contained in buildings not espe- 

 cially constructed for laboratory pur- 

 poses. The arrangement of the work- 

 tables, reference material, and appara- 

 tus does not differ materially from that 

 in any modern laboratory. 



The comparative histology of plants 

 and systematic botany share the same 

 rooms, thei-e being a general and a re- 

 search laboratory. Adjacent to the work- 

 tables in the general laboratory, the 

 university collection of phanerogams is 

 arranged in cases extending from ceiling 

 to floor. The abundance of the material 

 in the herbarium, its systematic and 

 convenient arrangement, and its accessi- 

 bility from the work-tables, where the 

 student may employ the dissecting 

 microscope and hand magnifier to advan- 

 tage in the work of identification and 

 study, and especially the complete local 

 flora, are particularly advantageous fea- 

 tures. The students in histology who 

 work in this room are each provided with 

 a compound microscope, having a low 

 and medium-power objective and two 

 eyepieces. If required, this equipment 

 can be supplemented by the addition of 

 an oil-immersion lens, of which the labor- 

 atory has a supply. Fresh material and 

 material in the proper state of physiolo- 

 gical activity is obtained from the large, 

 well-kept greenhouses adjacent to the 

 laboratories. The research laboratories 

 are fully equipped with microscopical 

 apparatus, each student having a sepa- 

 rate table with wall-case for reagents 

 and material. The classes are divided 

 into small sections, so that no matter 

 how many apply for work, each section 

 receives the personal care and instruction 

 of the professor and assistants in charge, 

 an advantage to the student which can 

 only be supplemented, never replaced, 

 by any refinement of methods in class- 

 work. 



The general laboratory for comparative 

 embrj'ology. mycology, etc., is ar- 

 ranged much as the histological labora- 

 tory described above. In addition to the 

 collection of fungi, etc., there is a mag- 

 nificent set of models of typical fungi 

 and other groups of plants, an abund- 



ance of charts illustrating plant struc- 

 ture, generic characters, etc., and a large 

 collection of photographs of the forms 

 which have from time to time come 

 under observation. There is also a com- 

 plete equipment for bacteriological cul- 

 tures and for the propagation of moulds. 

 The constant use of photography for 

 recording the appearance of specimens 

 studied, even the Roentgen rays being 

 occasionally employed, is an especially 

 noteworthy feature of this laboratory. 

 The research laboratory in connection 

 with this department is supplied with a 

 very complete microscope and microtome 

 equipment and is so arranged that it 

 may be entirely isolated from the gen- 

 eral laboratories during the progress of 

 work if desired. 



Laboratories of Microscopy, Histology, 



and Embryology, and of Bacteriology 



and Pathology. 



The laboratories of Microscopy, Ani- 

 mal Histology and Embryology, and of 

 Bacteriology and Comparative Path- 

 ology are newly constructed and may be 

 taken as types of properly arranged and 

 equipped modern laboratories. They are 

 located on the upper floor of the new 

 Veterinary College building. This struc- 

 ture is of yellow pressed brick with door 

 and window facings of Indiana limestone, 

 trimmings of terra cotta, and base of 

 Gouverneur marble. The dimensions are 

 142 X 42 feet. The choice of the upper 

 floor of a building for a laboratory has 

 the advantage of securing purer air, less 

 dust, less noise, and better light. 



By referring to the ground plan of the 

 laboratories it will be seen that the space 

 is divided longitudinally, the general 

 laboratories occupying the central por- 

 tion of each side, with the research 

 laboratories at one end and the profes- 

 sors' rooms at the other, of the building. 

 The lighting of the floor is, taken as a 

 whole, perfect, the building standing 

 north and south and the windows being 

 very large and arranged the proper dis- 

 tance apart for the accommodation of 

 the work-tables. Everything, from the 

 original plan of the building down to 

 the minutest details of carrying out indi- 

 vidual work, is arranged to secure the 

 greatest physical comfort for the 

 students and the most rapid, accurate, 

 and economical methods of work. The 

 long and comparatively narrow room 

 permits every part of it to be properly 

 lighted and brings the wall-cases within 

 convenient reach of the work-tables, 

 which are arranged opposite the win- 

 dows so that the student, when using 

 the microscope, may sit facing the light, 

 the proper position for work. The ceil- 

 ings are very high and the air is kept 



