and Laboratory Methods. 



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A Combined Locker and Laboratory Table. 



specifications . Both sides of the table are to be exactly alike. Each table 

 will then have four doors, four drawers each five inches deep in the clear, and 

 eight drawers each three inches deep in the clear. 



Exterior of tables and fronts of drawers are to be of selected red oak ; drawer 

 guides or slides of oak, maple, or cherry, and balance of interior work of poplar. 



Each door shall be hung with one pair good brass fast pin butts, and shall 

 be fitted with an " Anti-dial " combination lock. Each table shall be fitted with 

 eight " standard " No. 7, all steel castors. 



Except the top all exposed work, including drawer fronts, shall be filled with 

 silica paste filler, and shall then be finished with one coat of white shellac and 

 one coat of Johnson's, or equally good wax. Inside and drawers, except fronts, 

 shall have one coat of orange shellac. 



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The table in question was designed for laboratory work in Physiology and 

 Materia Medica. The height and also the area of the table top is somewhat 

 greater than ordinary for the reason that in experimental physiology it is neces- 

 sary at times to have considerable apparatus upon the table and the height is 

 desirable because in some experiments the student can do his work better stand- 

 ing than sitting. The foot rest attached to the tables, in connection with a stool 

 a trifle higher than usual (24 inches), enables the table to be perfectly serviceable 

 and entirely satisfactory for all forms of work at which it is desirable that the 

 student should sit. 



The chief advantage of the table, however, is believed to rest upon the fact 

 that a considerable economy of space and convenience to the worker is subserved. 

 The floor space covered by the table, in many instances, is not utilized at all, 

 except for the work done upon the top of the table. Lockers, when necessary, 

 have been built along the walls of the laboratory or in the hallway, or in an 

 adjoining room, thus taking up space which might be profitably utilized by wall 

 cases containing specimens, models, or general apparatus bearing upon the 



