404 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
the zoological laboratories, which were burned not long since, are 
being rebuilt, otherwise they are exclusively for the botanical de- 
partment, The main laboratory, 36 by 22 feet, now arranged to 
accommodate twenty students at a time, is to be doubled in size. 
The laboratory for advanced and micro-chemical work consists of 
a suite of rooms covering equal space with the main to 
The rooms are open from four to five hours each week day. 
Eleven Bausch & Lomb dissecting microscopes are provided 
for elementary work. There are twenty-five compound micro- 
scopes, made by Gundlach (1), Bausch & Lomb (3), Schrauer (2) 
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The botanical laboratory at the University of Nebraska was 
first opened in April, 1885, and at present occupies a room, 25 
by 18 feet, fitted up to accommodate eight or ten students at @ 
time. It will shortly be removed to rooms in the new Chemical 
Hall, ample for twenty-one students at once, to be occupied un- 
til the large and commodious biological building is erected, which 
Is expected in about two years. The rooms are now open seven 
hours a day, but it is proposed to reduce this somewhat. 
Twenty-five dissecting microscopes and thirty-six Coddington 
lenses have been provided for elementary work, which is not yet 
Novy, 6, 1885. A two-story dwelling house, near the Washing- 
ton University, of which the school is a department, has been re- 
modeled for laboratory purposes. At some future time a fully 
equipped laboratory building will be erected, probably at the 
: The instruments now ready for use are sixteen Bausch & Lom 
“lssecting microscopes, one of Zeiss’ best stands, with objectives 
ranging up to ik homogeneous immersion and full accessories 1n- 
