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[April 1 6, 1885 



to be quiet enough for their purpose. They are open 

 either all day or during certain hours, under the superin- 

 tendence or direction of the professors, who each have 

 theirown private room beside the room allotted to students. 



These seminaries correspond in their particular line to 

 the laboratories of the faculty of natural science; and they 

 provide for students' collections, appliances and special 

 libraries for each branch of instruction. Placed side by 



side along the corridors they are each readily accessible 

 to members of neighbouring seminaries. Starting from 

 the middle of the principal building there are successively 

 the seminaries of the Romanesque languages and of 



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Fig. 9.— The Institute of Anatomy and Pathology. 



English, the philological seminary, the institute of archae- 

 ology, the German seminary, the seminaries of historical 

 science, of philosophy, of jurisprudence, and of political 

 science. All the northern half of the first floor is devoted 



to art collections, extending from the seminary of political 

 science to the aula or great theatre. In the middle of the 

 western facade is the common lecture hall, flanked on the 

 one side by the library of the institute of archaeology, on 

 the other by the rooms of the institute of historical art. 

 A particular hall is reserved for temporary exhibitions. 

 Then comes the hall of Egyptology and the archaeological 

 museum organised with as much taste as science by M. 

 Michaelis, the professor of archaeology. Egyptology and 

 Arabic have each a special professor. 



Beside the seminaries and the art collections the 

 principal floor contains the aula or festival theatre, for the 



Fig. 10.— 1 he Surgical Clinical Hospital. 



University commemorations. Lit from above this hall 

 occupies the middle of the front facade, and is approached 

 at both ends by the grand staircases. Five open arcades 

 separate the aula from an exterior room reserved for the 

 public. The theatre itself is 82 feet long, 47* wide, and 

 33 high. It seats 450 persons, whilst the external chamber 

 admits of 200 to 300 standing places. The decorations 

 are in plaster, and there is a bust of [he Kaiser Wilhelm 

 against the northern wall in white marble. 



The heating arrangements — partly hot air. partly hot 

 water — are in the basement, a combined system being 

 used for the class-rooms, hot air alone for the corridors 



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and for the great hall. The ventilation is operated by gas 

 engines. All the windows are double glazed to obviate 

 too rapid cooling. No scientific appliance has been for- 

 gotten which might secure good sanitation. The aula, the 

 rector's apartments, the staircases, and the Salle des Pas 

 Perdus are richly ornamented in plaster and with painting. 

 The lecture halls and class rooms are more simple and 

 severe as befits their purpose, but for that very reason 

 nothing has been omitted to give them a solid and almost 

 monumental construction. Sandstone relieved with marble 

 prevails in the interior ; whilst the floors of the vestibules 

 and corridors are of mosaic and terrazo. 



