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The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry, opened October 23, 

 1912, at Dahlem, near Berlin. 



A few of the more important of these will now be described. 



I. THE IMPERIAL COLLEGE OP SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 



LONDON 



One of the largest and most completely equipped chemical 

 departments was erected by the British Government for the 

 accommodation of the Royal College of Science and Royal 

 School of Mines at South Kensington, London, and was occupied 

 for the first time in 1906. The architect of the building was 

 Sir Aston Webb, R.A., but the arrangement and fittings of the 

 interior were designed by the then professor of chemistry, the 

 present writer. 



A general view of the exterior of the principal building is 

 shown in Fig. 1, from which it will be seen that it consists of a 

 central block with two wings. The eastern half of the building 

 is devoted wholly to chemistry, while the western half is occupied 

 wholly by physics. The central mass contains the entrance and 

 stairs leading to upper stories occupied by the Science Library 

 which forms a part of the South Kensington Science Museum. 

 This provision for pure chemistry is supplemented by the 

 Department of Fuel and Chemical Technology, of which the 

 separate building has been more recently erected and occupied 

 for the first time in 1915. The College and the School of Mines 

 are now united, together with the City and Guilds of London 

 Institute, into one chartered body, the Imperial College of 

 Science and Technology. 



The buildings contain complete suites of laboratories, lecture 

 rooms, and accessory apartments, with accommodation for the 

 teaching staff in the four divisions of 



1. General and Analytical Chemistry ; 



2. Physical Chemistry ; 



3. Organic Chemistry ; 



4. Fuel and Chemical Technology. 



There is a professor at the head of each division, with a 

 number of assistants. 



As the internal arrangements are typical of what is aimed at 

 in many chemical institutions it will be worth while to glance 



