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Each of the special institutes of chemistry, physics, 

 botany, pharmacy, and astronomy, which are grouped be- 

 hind the collegiate palace, merit a particular description, 

 as well as the hospitals of surgery, obstetrics, and 

 psychiatry, and the institutes of anatomy, physiological 

 chemistry, and of physiology belonging to the faculty of 

 medicine, which are grouped around the civil hospital. 

 Views of these are given in Figs. 5 to 15. Each of these 

 institutes is independent and separate from the others, 

 provided with everything appropriate to its specific pur- 

 pose. In order to enable the professors, who are the 

 directors of the special institutes, to follow fully the work 



2,875,000 francs (£115,000) were spent on the collegiate 

 palace. The institute of chemistry alone cost 875,000 

 francs (,£35,000) ; the institute of physics, 728,750 francs 

 (£29,150) ; the institute of botany with its garden, 655,000 

 francs (,£26,200) ; the astronomical observatory, 642,000 

 francs (,£25,600) ; theinstituteof anatomy, 1,048,500 francs 

 (,£41,740) ; the surgical clinical hospital, 662,500 frans 

 (.£26,500) ; the institute of physiological chemistry, 400,000 

 francs (£ 16,000) ; the institute of physiology, 337, 5°° francs 

 (£13,500). It is impossible to give here the details of 

 each institute. Suffice it that each establishment has 

 profited by the latest advances of science, and provides 



of the students and the practice of the laboratory, they 

 are provided with residential apartments in the same 

 buildings. To the institute of astronomy is added an 

 astronomical observatory. This is at the present time 

 directed by Dr. Schur, in consequence of the protracted 

 illness of Prof. Winnecke, who was assistant at the 

 observatory of Pulkowa before coming to Strasburg. At 

 the institute of botany, Prof, von Bary, whose work on 

 cryptogamic flora is well known, has laid out a new 

 botanic garden, to which a second hothouse is yet to be 

 added. To complete the organisation of the University 

 establishments there remain to be erected an institute of 





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every means of research to students. Henceforth the 

 institutes annexed to the University of Strasburg will 

 serve as models for the installation of similar buildings. 

 They are not only most complete, but are already sought 

 by students. Thus the institute of chemistry, under the 

 direction of Prof. Fittig, is designed to receive 100 students 

 in its two divisions of organic and inorganic chemistry ; 

 and there is not a single vacant place. Further informa- 

 tion respecting the various institutes and their organisation 

 can be learned from the Festschrift, already alluded to as 

 having been written by M. Schricker to commemorate 

 the opening. As the great library of the country has been 



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geology, an institute of zoology, and an institute of 

 meteorology. The institute of geology, to be directed by 

 Prof. Benecke, will receive the mineralogical and palaeon- 

 tological collections, and at the same time will accommo- 

 date the work of the geological survey of Alsace-Lorraine. 

 As to the institute of meteorology, its utility has been 

 already admitted by the provincial government, and its 

 establishment is only a question of time. 



Toward the sum of 16,000,000 of francs (£640,000) ex- 

 pended up to this year on the new University of Strasburg 

 the German Empire has contributed the sum of 3,800,000 

 marks, or 4,750,000 francs (£190,000) ; and of this sum 



15.- The Ins 



! of Physiology. 



but temporarily housed in the episcopal chateau near the 

 Cathedral (in consequence of the fire during the bombard- 

 ment of 1870) it is intended to remove it to the neighbour- 

 hood of the collegial palace of the University. At present, 

 beside the special libraries of the several seminaries, there 

 is only one reading-room (Fig. 3, No. 32) for periodicals 

 and reviews. 



Down to the present time the native Alsatians and 

 Lorrainers have not frequented the new university as much 

 as might have been expected in proportion to the needs 

 of the' province. Young men still turn towards France to 

 follow their studies for the professions at Paris or at 



