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the boundaries of knowledge by methods which require not only 

 experience and knowledge in planning, but great skill in the use 

 of the most refined methods and apparatus requiring suitably 

 adapted conditions. 



These workers will chiefly be drawn from the ranks of the 

 alumni of Harvard, but there will probably be no great difficulty 

 in the way for competent workers from other universities who 

 desire to make use of the special facilities provided in the Gibbs 

 building. 



A moment's reflection will show, however, that other classes 

 of students must be provided for. The body of students at 

 Harvard needing laboratory accommodation has numbered as 

 many as 783 at one time. On reference to the plan it will be 

 seen that the Gibbs Laboratory is only part of a comprehensive 

 plan of connected but individual buildings, each to be devoted 

 to some special branch of chemistry. The library and museum 

 and other parts needed in common are to be placed in the 

 central building, while the others are connected together by 

 colonnades or cloisters. 



The new laboratories will supply places for 950 students, and 

 views are given of two of the buildings. One of these devoted to 

 instruction in elementary chemistry is not yet erected, and is 

 shown in the form of the architect's design. The other, har- 

 monious, though not identical, in appearance with the Gibbs 

 Memorial Laboratory, is the Coolidge Memorial Laboratory 

 (Fig. 13, facing p. 32), given by the Hon. T. Jefferson Coolidge, to 

 provide instruction in physical and electro-chemistry. It is un- 

 necessary to describe these buildings in detail. For the present 

 and until the new buildings contemplated in the scheme are 

 erected, the Coolidge Laboratory is occupied chiefly by students of 

 quantitative analysis, under the direction of Professor Baxter. 



It is perhaps appropriate to mention here that the University 

 of Harvard is closely associated with the famous Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology at Boston, though up to the present the 

 Institute is not an organic part of the University. The depart- 

 ments in which the two institutions specially co-operate are 

 engineering and mining, and the President of Harvard stands 

 at the head of the joint faculty. 



