Ald NATURE [Marci 3, 1904 
After the lunch the royal party inspected the new | pathological laboratories, lighted from above; also 
buildings, which comprise the Medical School, the | rooms for the demonstrators and lecturers, one of 
Sedgwick Memorial Museum, the new Botany | which is specially adapted for hygiene, under the 
supervision of Dr. G. H. F. Nuttall. 
In all the rooms the gas-pipes, 
water-pipes, and electric wires are 
carried in covered chases, and can 
be reached at a moment’s notice. 
The walls and the ceiling are of ada- 
mant cement, and all grooves and 
corners are rounded. There are no 
angles, mouldings, or projections to 
catch the dust. It is proposed to 
supply the electricity used in the 
building by means of two Diesel 
oil-engines, and the new Medical 
Schools will be perhaps more self- 
contained than any other institution 
of the sort in Cambridge 
Owing to lack of funds the syndi- 
cate entrusted with the erection of 
the medical schools has only been 
able to carry out two-thirds of the 
complete pian. In time it is hoped 
that the building will be connected 
with the eastern corner of the 
Physiological Labcratory, and that 
more rooms, which are earnestly 
needed, will be provided for the de- 
partments of physiological chemistry 
and pathology, and that a space will 
be set apart for a proper develop- 
seven : ment aad teaching of hygiene. 
Fic. 1.—Botanical Laboratory : Elementary Class-room. The Botanical “School forms the 
southern side of the court, which 
School, and the Squire Law Library and Law , the university is rapidly enclosing, on the site it 
Lecture Rooms. | bought from Downing College seven years ago. Exs- 
Of these the building for medicine lies on the north | ternally the building is simple and without ornamen- 
side of Downing Street and covers the site of the old tation, but its proportions are good and architecturally 
Anatomical School so well known 
to the pupils of the late Sir George 
Humphry. The plans for this 
building were designed by Mr. E. S. 
Prior, ‘of Gonville and Caius Col- 
lege, who has shown considerable 
ingenuity in satisfying the require- 
ments of the several profe ssors on a 
very awkwardly shaped site. The 
basement, which is partly beneath 
the level of the ground, is given 
over to store-rooms., workshops, 
combustion and photographic rooms, 
and engines and a ventilating in- 
stallation on the Plenum system. 
On the ground floor are small labo- 
ratories connected with the medical 
and surgical departments and the 
chemical laboratories of Dr. Brad- 
bury, the professor of pharmaco- 
logy. Here also is a large lecture 
room capable of seating two hundred 
students, and the pathological 
museum. On the first floor is the 
spacious Humphrey Museum, the 
walls of which are lined with glazed 
tiles, and the library, which is fitted 
with movable bools-cases which can 
readily be pulled out into the room. 
Near by is the private room of the 
professor of pathology, Dr. Sims 
Woodhead. On this floor also are 
rooms for Dr. Clifford Allbutt, the regius professor | the effect produced is pleasing. The architect is Mr. 
Fic. 2.—Botanical Laboratory : Professor's Room. 
of medicine, and for Dr. Howard Marsh, the professor | W. C. Marshall, of Messrs. Marshall and Vickers. 
of surgery, and a class-room capable of holding fifty The building is entered by two doors, from either 
ar sixty students. On the top floor are the spacious | of which access is gained to the large central lecture 
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