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tached, glass vegetation house for pot cultures in the warmer 

 seasons, barn, and ice-house. The office building is a three- 

 story, brick-filled frame house, containing the station offices 

 and library and the dwelling of the director. It has two ad- 

 ditions, each two stories high, which are the quarters of the 

 superintendent of buildings and grounds. In the basement 

 of the main building are the coal bunkers and a tubular boiler, 

 from which the house, laboratories, and greenhouses are 

 heated. The chemical laboratory is a two-story brick struc- 

 ture. On the first floor is the main laboratory, a sampling- 

 room fitted with mills for grinding samples, and storage 

 rooms adjoining. On the second floor are two laboratories 

 and two small storage rooms. In the basement are two 

 storerooms and various pieces of apparatus. The biological 

 laboratory is a two-story frame house, in which the botanical, 

 horticultural, and entomological divisions are accommodated. 

 The basement contains a dark room for photography and a 

 storage room. On the main floor are two workrooms, and 

 on the second floor a museum. Connected with this build- 

 ing are a small plant-house for the use of the mycologist, a 

 wooden frame greenhouse, and an iron frame greenhouse with 

 a potting house and workroom attached, all heated by steam. 

 These are devoted wholly to experimental work. 



The station now owns about six acres of land, on which 

 the buildings are situated. It keeps no live-stock for experi- 

 mental purposes. 



In the botanical division is an herbarium containing over 

 5,000 specimens of phaenogams and vascular cryptogams, 

 and a number of mycological exsiccati. There are two col- 

 lections of seeds of economic importance. The cabinet of 

 insects contains over 3,000 specimens. There are also collec- 

 tions of minerals, rocks, and soils, fertilizers and fertilizer 

 chemicals, native phosphates and potassic minerals, pure and 

 adulterated food products, and charts, diagrams, tables, and 

 lantern slides for illustrating addresses on agricultural subjects. 



The station has sets of the more important agricultural, 



