Journal of Applied Microscopy. 



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look out upoD the yard. It is unobstructed by the proximity of other buildings 

 or trees. Adjoining one side of this laboratory is a small room for specimens and 

 work materials ; it serves also as a sort of private room for the teacher. At one 

 end of the laboratory, and between it and the stairway, is a dimly-lighted store 

 room ; thus it is isolated from the noise and bustle of the school in general, and is 

 almost ideally located for a laboratory. The dimensions and floor space of these 

 rooms are as follows : 



Laboratory, . . 53x32 feet, making a floor space of 1 GOG square feet. 

 Storeroom, . . 21x19.5 " " •' " 400.5 



Teacher's room, 31 x 14 " " " " 434 



GENERAL VIEW OF LABORATORY. 



1014 square feet of the laboratory floor space is taken up with the laboratory 

 proper, and iU8 square feet by tablet chairs used for recitation purposes. 



There are fifteen windows in the room, nine on the side and six on the end. 

 These are 30 inches by SG inches, making 285 square feet of lighting surface. 

 They are 30 inches from the floor, or about the height of the students' shoulders 

 as they sit at the tables. 



The room receives no direct sunlight during school hours. The ceiling, 

 which is 22 feet high, and the walls, are white, making a very evenly diftused, 

 soft light, exactly suited for the purpose for which it is used, and sufticiently 

 strong for the use of a microscope in any part of the room. 



The tables are neither elaborate nor expensive, and are not specially con- 

 structed laboratory tables, but they are of solid oak, 3G x 67 inches, and 



