REPORT ON CHEMICAL LABORATORY 81 



chemistry, and placed not far apart, to be connected with 

 each other by a central Administration Building. The latter 

 might contain also the chief lecture-rooms, a chemical museum, 

 as well as a library, and other facilities to be used in common 

 by all; separate buildings, as has been stated, to be devoted 

 to the different branches of chemistry. One could be devoted 

 to organic and industrial chemistry; a second to inorganic 

 chemistry; a third to physical chemistry, and a fourth to 

 quantitative and qualitative analysis. Portions of one or more 

 of these buildings could be set aside as research laboratories, 

 of their respective kinds. In this way provision would advan- 

 tageously be made for the adequate separation of work in- 

 jurious to other parts, either because of noise, vibration, or 

 noxious gases; on the other hand, connection with the cen- 

 tral Administration Building would promote unity of interest. 



Preliminary sketches of several ways in which these build- 

 ings might be arranged were shown to the Committee. Such 

 a scheme of a group of buildings devoted to chemistry would 

 necessarily demand considerable space of ground, but the 

 Committee understand that land for this purpose is available 

 in Cambridge in a situation which would not only be well 

 adapted to the purposes of the buildings erected upon it, but 

 would enable them to become an ornamental addition to the 

 various groups of buildings now in the University grounds. 



Such a proposed radical departure of the administration 

 of the Department of Chemistry would undoubtedly involve 

 a large expenditure, but when we consider the importance of 

 the subject and the character of the teachers and investiga- 

 tors who are interested in this department of science, we do 

 not hesitate to recommend most urgently that steps be 

 taken in order that a beginning may be made to work out an 

 entirely new foundation for this department. 



With the immense development of the various departments 



