XXII. 



THE ENGINEERING BUILDING, AND EAST SIDE OP 



CAMPUS. 



Adjoining the Sibley College on the east is a cottage 

 owned by the University, next to which is a small un- 

 pretentious structure in the country school-house style. 

 This is known in the vernacular as the ' 'copper house, ' ' 

 for the reason that no iron is used in its construction. 

 In it are placed the magnetometers, and instruments 

 for accurate electrical measurements, among which is 

 the mammoth tangent galvanometer, constructed at the 

 University, having coils more than six feet in diameter. 

 From this building a road passes south on the east side 

 of the Campus, past an orchard of some extent, to a large 

 wooden building, at present occupied by the Engineer- 

 ing Department. The building was one of the first 

 erected, and having been intended to serve temporary 

 ends only, does not present any special merits of con- 

 struction. The building contains a number of lecture 

 and draughting rooms, private rooms for the professors 

 of engineering, laboratories and museums. The latter 

 contain a large collection of engineering models, and a 

 complete collection of instruments of precision used in 

 this profession, such as an astronomical transit, astro- 

 nomical clocks, sextants, equatorials, a geodesic col- 

 lection, and all the coarser field instruments. There 

 is also a room for meteorological observations, fitted 

 with self registering instruments. The observations 



