1910 



Journal of Applied Microscopy 



The laboratory is supplied with twenty-five desks, each desk designed to 

 accommodate five students, each occupying it at different periods during the 

 week. The desk contains five drawers, one of which is assigned to each of the 

 five students using the desk, as his own individual drawer. The desk is also 

 supplied with three other compartments which are accessible to all the students 

 working at that desk ; one for the microscope, one for chemicals, and one for 

 such articles as filter paper, clean cloths, glass rods, report blanks, etc. The 

 desks are two feet wide, four feet long, two feet six inches high. They are made 

 of oak, covered on top with a pad of heavy corrugated rubber, upon which rests 

 a large plate of one-half inch glass, with rounded corners and ground edges, 



Fig. l.^Plan of Laboratory. D Desk, S-Sink, S.T Sterilizing Table, T-Table, N.T Nivellating 

 Table, S.S Supply Shelf, B.S-Broad Shelf, G.I. R-General Incubator Room, P.l.K-Private 

 Incubator Room, H.I.R-Histology Incubator Room, C.S-Cabinet for Supplies, C.MMedia 

 Cabinet, R.T-Reading Table, C.C-Chemical Cabinet, D.T-Draining Table. 



covering the whole top of the desk. This provides a top which the student can 

 keep thoroughly disinfected and spotlessly clean with a minimum amount of 

 effort. A cut of this admirable desk accompanies this article. It will be seen 

 that each student has the use of four drawers in the desk and a working space 

 equal to the top of the desk, that is, eight square feet. Each desk is supplied 

 with a reserve-flame Bunsen burner. The connection between this burner and 

 the gas supply pipe is made by means of block tin tubing, and ground, gas-tight, 

 brass unions, which permit the removal or exchange of burners if desired. This 

 tubing, while it does not permit the moving of the burner as much as a rubber 

 tube, is possessed of a certain amount of flexibility, and has certain advantages 



