Journal of Applied Microscopy. 



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tively, 51 feet 7 inches, by '29 feet 3 inches ; 51 feet 7 inches, by 27 feet 4 inches ; 

 4S feet S inches, by 24 feet !> inches. From floor to ceiUng there is a depth of 

 16 feet 5 inches. It is partly the height of the rooms and windows, and the 

 arrangement of the latter that causes visitors to remark, " How pleasant your 

 rooms seem." There are no special recitation rooms, teachers' rooms, or store- 

 rooms. 



The tables differ somewhat in each room and may be briefly described as 

 follows. In one of the botany rooms the four student tables are of heavy oak, 

 o03/j; inches high, 145 inches long, 72 inches at the wider end turned towards 

 the windows, and 45 inches at the opposite end. They are, in other words, flat- 

 iron-shaped and are supposed to give each student farther from the source of 



L. MURBACH, PHOTO. 



LARGER BOTANY ROOIVI (WITH CONSERVATORY) 



light, more than he would otherwise get ; but in well lighted rooms this is of little 

 practical importance. There are a cabinet end and eight vertical tiers of draw- 

 ers with combination locks under each table top, for students' apparatus, books, 

 paper, etc. The four drawers in each tier accommodate as many sets of students, 

 corresponding to our four laboratory periods in biology. The working capacity 

 of the room is thus seen to be thirty-two students ; yet I think no laboratory 

 teacher should generally have more than twenty-five. Ball-bearing rollers make 

 it possible for one janitor to do the necessary shifting of tables. 



In the other botany room the tables are oblong, 144 inches long, 45^ inches 

 wide, and 31 inches high. They are without cabinet ends, but otherwise fitted 

 with eight lockers like those above described. In the zoology laboratory the five 



