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and in extent of accommodation approaches closely the labora- 

 tories of the Imperial College at South Kensington. The chemical 

 division occupies the upper ground floor of the main building 

 and includes a large lecture theatre, with seating accommodation 

 for about 200 persons, a smaller lecture room, three general 

 laboratories, a laboratory for chemical technology, and a number 

 of smaller laboratories for special purposes and for research. 



The general chemical laboratory is a lofty room 30 feet high, 

 and about 70 feet square, with bench accommodation for 120 

 students. There is another general laboratory for mineral 

 analysis and one for organic chemistry which provides for 

 sixteen students. 



As becomes a school of applied chemistry the technological 

 laboratory is fitted with appliances adapted to operations on a 

 larger scale than those which are carried on in the general 

 laboratories. Thus there is a reverberatory furnace with movable 

 experimental hearth, a large drying oven, vacuum stills, filter 

 presses, evaporating pans, wooden vats with mechanical stirrers, 

 and crushing and grinding mills. 



The production of the highest temperatures is provided for 

 by the installation of electric furnaces of different types, while 

 low temperature operations are made possible by the presence 

 of a liquid air machine. 



There is also provided for the more advanced students a com- 

 bined lecture and laboratory course in electro- technology, in 

 view of the practical importance to the industrial chemist of a 

 knowledge of the methods of utilising electric energy. 



A course of instruction in practical bacteriology also forms a 

 useful addition to the ordinary curriculum. Needless to say 

 research in every direction is practised by the staff and en- 

 couraged among the students of the Royal College in Dublin. 



III. THE UNIVERSITY OF HARVARD, U.S.A. 



The University of Harvard, at Cambridge, near Boston in 

 Massachusetts, U.S.A., has long boasted a famous chemical 

 school. The present director and Erving Professor of Chemistry, 

 Theodore W. Richards, having in 1915 received the award of the 

 Nobel Prize for Chemistry at the hands of the administrators, 

 the Swedish Academy of Sciences, it may be assumed that his 

 remarkable record of researches in physical chemistry is 

 admired and accepted by the world of science. For some years 



