426 Di'.Hiive's Descripiion of the Laboratory and Lecture-Roonij 



perfectly regardless of the temper in which it may be written, 

 I intend to send you for your benefit, and that of your readers, 

 a private communication, pointing out upwards of eighty state- 

 ments in the new edition of your Eleme?its which appear to 

 me to require correction. This number will probably be in- 

 creased when leisure will permit me to look through the re- 

 mainder of the work. 



I remain. Sir, 



Your obedient Servant, 

 Birmingham, May 11, 1832. R. Phillips. 



LVIII. Description of the Laboratory and Lecture-Room in 

 the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. 

 By Professor Hare*. 



[With a Plate.] 



T^HE hearth, behind the table, is thirty-six feet wide, and 

 •*• twenty feet deep. On the left, which is to the south, is a 

 scullery supplied with river-water by a communication with the 

 pipes proceeding from the public water-works, and furnished 

 with a sink and a boiler. Over the scullery is a small room of 

 about twelve feet square, used as a study. In front of the 

 scullery and study are glass cases for apparatus. On the right 

 of the hearth two other similar cases, one above the other, 

 may be observed. Behind the lower one of these is the forge- 

 room, about twelve feet square ; and north of the forge-room 

 are two fire-proof rooms, communicating with each other, 

 eleven feet square each, the one for a lathe, the other for a 

 carpenter's bench and a vice-bench. The iwo last-mentioned 

 rooms are surmounted by groined arches, in order to render 

 them secure against fire ; and the whole suite of rooms which 

 I have described, together with the hearth, are supported 

 by seven arches of masonry, about twelve feet each in span. 

 Over the forge-room is a store-room, and over the lathe and 

 bench rooms, is one room of about twenty by twelve feet. In 

 this room there is a fine lathe, and tools. 



The space partially visible to the right is divided by a floor 

 into two apartments lighted by four windows. The lower 

 apartment is employed to hold galvanic ajiparatus, the upper 

 one for shelves and tables, for apparatus and agents, not in 

 daily use. In front of the floor just alluded to, is a gallei-y for 

 visitors. 



• Professor Hare has furnished us with the above extract from an 

 American Journal, and with the impressions of the plate to which it re- 

 fers. — Edit. 



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