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gives a degree in honours to students of engineering, 

 was held. In 1899 the generosity of Mrs. Hopkinson 

 and her family made possible the addition of a much 

 needed new wing to the laboratory. The buildings of 

 the department now contain lecture-room accommoda- 

 tion which seats about 360 students simultaneously, a 

 drawing-office for a class of ninety, two rooms for 

 elementary heat and mechanics, a boiler-room, an 

 engine-room with ten heat-engines of different types, 

 arranged so that the measurement of all quantities 

 concerned may be systematically made by the students, 

 a large room for dealing with strength of materials and 

 with hydraulics, a dynamo-room fitted with various 

 kinds of dynamos, a motor-room fitted with motors of 

 all the usual types, and several other rooms for special 

 purposes. The greater part of the staff have had 

 practical engineering experience of some kind ; and it 

 is usual during the long vacation for one or two 

 members of the staff, as well as a number of the 

 students, to go into a drawing-office or into works 

 in order to keep in touch with practice. The school 

 numbers at present more than 250 students, and 

 supplies young engineers with a scientific training to 

 various public services, as well as to mechanical and 

 electrical firms. 



The University chemical laboratory was built in 

 1887 ; and, while planning it, the professor of chemistry 

 spent some months in visiting the newest laboratories 

 on the Continent and in America. The importance of 

 botany has of late years so greatly increased that its 

 study is represented in Cambridge by a professor, 

 a reader, and two University lecturers, besides demon- 

 strators, assistant demonstrators, and attendants. In 

 1904 botany was housed in a separate building of its 

 own, the finest devoted to that science in the United 

 Kingdom, and one of the finest in Europe. The 

 physiology of plants, bacteriological research, and the 



