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The upper floor and the ground floor are devoted to the 
laboratories and research rooms; the east wing of the 
upper floor is reserved for arts and science students, and 
the west wing for medical students. The junior arts and 
science laboratory has accommodation for forty-five 
students, and is fitted with tables, benches, and wall 
apparatus for introductory experimental work; on one side 
is a long gallery for optical work. The senior laboratory 
will accommodate forty students, and consists of three 
rooms for mechanical, thermal, and electrical work, two 
rooms for optical work, and two for sound. Between these 
two sets of laboratories is a research room for the chief 
laboratory assistant, and adjoining them is a small work- 
shop with benches, lathe, glass-blowing table, &e. 
On the ground floor are the research rooms; at present 
only five are to be fitted up; the remainder will be 
equipped and brought into use as funds permit. These 
rooms have firm concrete floors, have stone shelves 
built into the thick, solid walls, and are supplied with 
high- and low-pressure water, gas, electric currents, &e., 
and in certain of the rooms, by the use of copper and brass 
piping, and by other precautions, provision has been made 
for work with delicate electrical instruments. On_ this 
floor are also the accumulator room, a large workshop 
and forge room, and a _constant- 
temperature room. 
The tower, 89 feet in height, has 
been utilised for suspension of long 
wires, mercurial pressure-gauge, and 
other purposes requiring considerable 
height, and, lastly, on the roof a 
floor space, 24 feet by 12 feet, has 
been arranged for open-air experi- 
ments. 
Engineering Buildings. 
The accompanying illustration (Fig. 
2) shows the west end of the block 
of buildings for the engineering de- 
partment. 
The building is T-shaped, the head 
of the T facing west. In the head 
of the T, on the ground floor, are 
provided large laboratories for the 
testing of materials (42 feet by 30 
feet) and for hydraulics (51 feet by 
30 feet). The first floor devoted 
mainly to a laboratory for experi- 
mental work, which does not require 
heavy machinery (73 feet by 25 feet). 
On this floor are also a small lecture 
room, the departmental library, and 
the private rooms for the staff. 
The back block of the building is 
also divided into two floors—the lower 
forms the lecture theatre and the upper 
the drawing office. The lecture theatre will seat about 
120 students, and on the lecturer’s table are all the needful 
appliances for experimental demonstrations, there being 
steam, gas, and electrical connections. There are also the 
necessary appliances for darkening the room in order to 
allow of the free use of lantern demonstrations. The 
drawing office is a fine room, about 45 feet square, lit 
entirely from the north and east, the roof being of the 
saw-tooth pattern, the floor space giving room for about 
sixty independent drawing tables. Special rooms have also 
been set aside for blue-print work and photography. 
A workshop and heat laboratory (48 feet by 42 feet) has 
een provided for by roofing in and connecting to the 
iain building a piece of ground lying in the north-east 
aigle between the front and back blocks. The workshop 
id laboratory contains examples of all the ordinary 
__achine-tools, gas-engines, steam-engines, and other plant 
sr experimental research in connection with thermo- 
_ aynamics. 
The building is heated by hot water and by steam; an 
independent boiler house has been constructed for this 
Purpose, with two large boilers. 
__ A considerable amount of additional apparatus has been 
is 
_ installed in these new buildings. The testing laboratory | may 
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| above the floor-level of the laboratory. 
now contains a 1oo-ton Buckton machine, with the neces- 
sary electric motor, pump, and accumulator; a 60,000-Ib. 
Riehle machine; an Amsler 1oo-ton machine, specially de- 
signed for compression and bending work; anda complete 
installation for the testing of cements, mortars, &c. 
In connection with the hydraulic laboratory, a water 
tower has been constructed at the south-east corner of the 
building ; at the top of this tower is a large cast-iron tank 
holding about 10,000 gallons, and giving a head of 65 feet 
The floor of the 
laboratory is on two different levels; on the upper. level 
are placed the various turbines, water-wheels, and other 
hydraulic machines on which experimental investigations 
will be carried out. The water discharged from these 
machines passes into one or other of three rectangular 
channels formed in the floor, and the quantity is measured 
by allowing the water to pass over weirs. The water then 
flows into one or other of two large rectangular tanks, 
each 11 feet square by 5 feet deep, sunk below the lower 
floor-level of the laboratory, where it is measured again 
by floats, with rods moving in front of carefully graduated 
vertical scales. From these lower measuring tanks the 
water is lifted by an electrically driven 20 h.p. centrifugal 
pump back to the storage tank in the water tower. The 
Fic. 2.—Entrarce and West Front of new Engineering Department, University of Edinburgh. 
hydraulic equipment includes a Venturi meter and other 
forms of meters, and a considerable amount of other 
apparatus for experimental work. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
INTELLIGENCE. 
Oxrorp.—The geographical scholarship for 1906 has 
been awarded to Mr. N. de Lancey Davis, Jesus College. 
Mr. J. A. Brown, New College, has been appointed 
demonstrator in the laboratory of the Wykeham professor 
of physics. 
The following elections have been made at Jesus 
College :—to scholarships in natural science, G. I. Wishart, 
Wilson’s Grammar School, London, S.E., and H. E. 
Jones, County School, Towyn; to exhibitions in natural 
science, R. Atkin, Nottingham High School, and A. D. 
Phoenix, Grove Park School, Wrexham. 
CampripGe.—The following recommendations, contained 
in a report of the special board for mathematics on the 
mathematical tripos, received the sanction of the Senate 
at a congregation held on October 25:—(1) A student 
be a candidate for part i. of the mathematical tripos 
