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room designed to accommodate some two hundred 
students. West of the lecture room is the herbarium, 
containing a very extensive collection of dried plants 
which have been accumulated since the chair of botany 
was founded in 1704, and a special library of sys- 
tematic monographs. Corresponding with this, but 
on the eastern end, is a museum in which is exhibited 
a really remarkable collection of plants in spirit, 
besides many specimens of economic interest. 
On the first floor of the building is a library, which 
contains more than four thousand volumes and in 
which nearly forty current scientific botanical period- 
icals can be seen. Above the herbarium is the 
morphological laboratory and the chemical laboratory 
with a photographic dark room. 
The professor’s rooms and rooms for sterilisers and 
incubators are over the museum, and other rooms on 
this floor are occupied by the lecturers in botany, Mr. 
ward and Mr. Blackman. 
On the second floor the western half of the space 
is occupied by a large laboratory capable of seating 
one hundred and fifty students. There are also rooms 
provided for the demonstrators and small lecture rooms 
for advanced students. The eastern end of this floor 
is occupied by a laboratory for plant physiology, con- 
nected with which is the dark room and the green- 
house. Mr. Francis Darwin, university reader in 
botany, has his rooms near by. 
The large flat roof is well adapted for certain kinds 
of experimental work, and there are three green- 
houses so arranged as to provide for the plants therein 
different external conditions throughout the year. 
The great care exercised by Prof. Marshall Ward 
and the architect has resulted in the completion of 
what is probably the most complete botanical teaching 
institute in the Empire. 
It is gratifying to know that the King’s visit to 
Cambridge is being marked by the foundation of 
scholarship of tool. a year for encouragement of 
wesearch in botany. The generous benefactor, who is 
already well known to Cambridge as the founder of a 
In the year 1727 Dr. John Woodward bequeathed 
by his will to the University of Cambr idge his collec- 
tion of English fossils with the two cabinets con- 
Fic. 4.—Humphrey Memorial Museum. 
taining them and their catalogues. From this small 
beginning the geological collections of the university 
have grown. 
The magnificent pile of buildings which has recently 
been erected is partly a memorial 
to Adam Sedgwick, one of Cam- 
bridge’s greatest professors, who. 
died at the beginning of 1873 at 
the advanced age of eighty-eight- 
In the spring of that year a meeting 
was held at the Senate House at 
which it was decided to collect 
money to build a new geological 
museum in his memory. So large 
a sum was collected, and so long 
a time elapsed before the museum 
was begun that the trustees, a year 
or two ago, were able to hand over 
a sum of money which amounted, 
with the interest received during the 
interval, to more than 26.0001. The 
remainder of the cost of the building 
has been defrayed by the university. 
The Sedgwick Memorial Museum 
was designed by Mr. T. G. Jackson, 
R.A. Its ground plan is of an ‘‘ L’” 
shape, one side running along 
Downing Street, where it adjoins 
the new Law Library, the other 
side, at a somewhat obtuse angle, 
forming the western boundary of 
Downing Place. 
On the ground floor are numerous 
workshops, a very fine lecture room, 
West End. 
Fic. 3.—Sedgwick Museu 1: 
studentship at Caius College, is Mr. Frank Smart, of 
Tunbridge Wells. 
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and a museum of economic geology. 
On the first floor the Sedgwick 
Museum occupies almost the entire extent of the 
Museum, one corner of which is partitioned off, and 
