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Chemical lecture-room furnitur p. — A platform two feet (2 feet) higli will 

 be made, of strong joists and plank, raised from the front of the proiessor's 

 frorit desk (A) to the rear of the room. On this the desk (A) will be placed, 

 which will be of the dimensions shown on the plans, and will have drawers 

 on all sides. The other desk (B) will be made in the same manner and 

 similarly furnished. 



Behind the front lecturer's desk a partition will be carried across, having 

 sliding doors handsomely panelled, 3 inches in thickness, with proper fix- 

 tures, per plans. In the side of tihs partition, facing the lecture-room, there 

 will be closets, with shelves, three feet in depth, and having sash doors, 

 filled with good American s:lass. 



The laboratory behind the lecture-room will be divided into two stories, 

 connected by two flights of handsome staircases. 



The first story will be divided into three apartments; the centre one of 

 which will contain the working table (B) hereinbei'<)re described, and will 

 be shelved all around, except where occupied by doors and windows, to a 

 height of eight feet. These shelves will be enclosed above a line three 

 feet high, by panelled doors hung in boxes with weights, cords, and pulleys, 

 like sash, and below that line the closets will be projected to form a table 

 15 inches wide, below which there will be a range of drawers about 6 

 inches deep, and below the drawers a range of closets with panelled doors. 

 On the room to the right hand there will be two tables (A) two feet wide 

 and eight feet long, made of three thicknesses of narrow 1^ inch white 

 pine plank, not more than three inches in width, planed on both sides, 

 tongued and grooved, and put together diagonally with glue and screws, 

 and having strongs legs. The remaining part of the walls will be shelved 

 off as in the preceding apartment. 



On the room to the left there will be a working table (G) three teet wide 

 and seven feet long, made similarly to those above described. The parti- 

 tion wall next centre will be shelved off as in the other apartments. 

 Racks of shelves, with holes bored in them, will be placed on each side of 

 the sink (F.) In the second story of the laboratory, which will also be 

 divided into three apartments, the centre one will contain in the centre a 

 series of shelves, resting like steps from the partition wall to the rear, to a 

 height of seven feet. The v/alls will be shelved with shelves one toot in 

 width, enclosed in sash doors hung with weights, cords and pulleys, like 

 window sash, and, with the two remaining rooms, will be lighted with 

 skylights of best double-thickness American glass in the roof, and interior 

 skylights in the ceiling, with fancy sash, filled with best English crown 

 glass, (A.) 



In the east connecting range, which will be also divided internally into 

 two (2)' stories above the basement, the first story will contain a students' 

 working laboratory, in the centre of which will be two strong tables in the 

 form of the letter T, the tops of which will be of soapstone flags. These 

 tables will be furnished with drawers, shelves and closets. 



All around the sides of the rooms not otherwise occupied, there will be 

 tables two feet nine inches wide with wooded tops, and drawers and closets; 

 below and above these tables shelved closets, with sash doors hung 

 with weights, cords and puUevs, will be carried to a height of eight feet 

 from the floor. Stairs three feet wide, and well finished, will connect this 

 laboratory with the second story. The second story above the laboratory 

 will be divided into three apartments, one 15 by 14, as a private room for 

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