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population, splendid separate institutes were erected in Strass- 

 burg to provide for the several branches of science, chemistry, 

 botany, geology, etc. Each of these institutes contained 

 accommodation, on a scale previously unknown, for laboratories, 

 lecture rooms, and museums, as well as residence for the chief 

 professor. Even the Strassburg chemical institute is now sur- 

 passed in dimensions and outfit by some of the establishments 

 more recently erected in various parts of the world. 



Before proceeding further it will be convenient to review the 

 purposes for which the very numerous chemical laboratories 

 have been erected in all the civilised countries of the world. In 

 the first place it must be remembered that they are not all 

 devoted to the purposes of instruction. Many are occupied with 

 purely practical objects in connection with analysis of products 

 for control of quality, or for fiscal purposes, or in association 

 with manufacturing operations. And in these later times the 

 importance of research is becoming so generally recognised that 

 institutions have been founded and endowed with the sole object 

 of providing facilities for carrying on such work independent of 

 teaching, on the one hand, and of industrial or practical purposes 

 on the other. The following classification of laboratories must 

 be understood to be only illustrative, and with a few exceptions 

 applies only to the British Isles. The total number of univer- 

 sities and of technical schools in Britain alone is very large, and 

 any attempt to enumerate completely even these would require 

 a volume to itself. The reader must be informed therefore that 

 if the universities of other countries and such famous technical 

 schools as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Boston, 

 are not included in the analysis it is from no want of sense of 

 their importance. 



LABORATORIES FOR INSTRUCTION 



1. Universities (15 British). 



2. University Colleges. 



Special Departments for Agriculture ; Brewing ; Dye- 

 ing ; Leather ; Metallurgy. 



3. Technical Schools. 



Among the most important are : The Imperial College at 

 South Kensington ; The Royal College of Science, Dublin ; 



