Journal of 



Applied Microscopy. 



Volume II. 



JULY, 1899. 



Number 7 



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DETROIT CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL. 



The Biology Work in the Detroit Central High 



School. 



The school occupies the entire half of a block and is therefore not in the 

 shadow of any other building. It faces slightly south of east. The three labo- 

 ratory rooms for biology are on the second floor and have west and south, north 

 and west, and north and east exposures, the facings thus given being the longer 

 sides of the rooms, lighted in each case by five windows, and the shorter by three 

 or four. The window seats are forty-eight inches from the floor, a little higher 

 than is usually considered best for laboratory purposes, but the height of the 

 windows, reaching within fifteen inches of the ceiling, compensates for this, and 

 the long tables are evenly lighted from one end to the other. Those windows 



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