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as University Colleges. Not far from the polytechnic 

 at Aachen is the University of Bonn ; at Munich, and 

 within a few yards of each other, are found the university 

 and polytechnic, and the magnificent institution at 

 Charlottenberg is almost as near to the science laboratories 

 of the Berlin University as is University College to 

 the City Guilds Institute. It must also be remembered 

 that the universities comprise schools of science of the 

 highest grade, for each of which, as at Zurich, Strass- 

 burg and Berlin, separate buildings are provided, pre- 

 sided over by professors of European celebrity. In the 

 figures I am about to quote, it will be understood, there- 

 fore, that I am dealing with a part only of the accom- 

 modation which the different German States have made 

 for the teaching of the higher branches of science. 



In order to show the relative sizes of some of the 

 Continental institutions for instruction and research 

 work in technical or applied science, I have obtained 

 plans, accompanied by descriptive matter, of certain 

 typical technical high schools, and have made squares 

 corresponding to the areas covered by the existing build- 

 ings. In most cases the buildings erected in the early 



building in this country which correctly corresponds 

 with a German polytechnic, although its courses of 

 instruction are restricted to fewer branches of profes- 

 sional work. The Royal College of Science embraces 

 a much wider range of scientific work, but, except as 

 regards its mining department, its functions differ in 

 many respects from those of a technical high school. 

 University and King's Colleges may be described as 

 imperfect and undeveloped universities, the specially 

 technical departments of which would alone correspond to 

 the buildings now under consideration. 



Taking the areas of the sites of some of the principal 

 foreign schools, we have the following figures arranged in 

 order : 



Square metres 



Site of the Berlin Polytechnic ... 



,, Aachen 



,, Darmstadt 



,, Hanover 



,, Chemnitz 



,, Stuttg.\rt 



,, London — City Guilds College 

 ,, ,, Royal College of Science 



82,460 

 21,900 

 16,150 

 15.294 

 12,418 

 11,189 

 3.344 

 1,189 



Electro-technical and Mining Laboratory — .X.tchen. 



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^seventies have proved too small and ill-adapted or such 

 practical teaching as requires the use of steam power. 

 Separate buildings have accordingly been added for the 

 accommodation of the engineering, chemical, and electro- 

 technical laboratories, for engine and boiler houses, and for 

 other purposes. The areas of these separate buildings I 

 have added together, and where a building consists of a 

 front portion, and of separate wings at right angles to it, 

 as is so frequently the case, I have taken only those 

 j)arts of the site which the buildings actually cover. 

 With a view to further accuracy I have endeavoured, 

 where the plans enabled me to do so, to reduce the 

 several parts of the building to a uniform height. The 

 figures quoted may be taken, therefore, as approximately 

 correct. 



The Central Technical College of London is the only 



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The relative areas of these sites are shown by the 

 squares in Fig. 2. 



If we consider the buildings erected on these sites, we 

 have the following figures representing in square metres 

 the areas already covered : — 



Berlin 



Ziirich (exclusive of observatory building) ... 

 Aachen (exclusive of engineering laboratory, 



being built) 



Stuttgart 



Darmstadt 



Chemnitz 



London — City Guilds College 



,, Royal College of Science 



The accompanying squares (Fig. 3) show the relative 

 sizes of the buildings. 



Square metres 

 16,500 

 15.412 



8,255 



6,375 

 6,084 

 3.964 

 1.837 

 1,189 



