March to, 1870] 
NATURE 
485 
THE NEW NATURAL SCIENCE SCHOOLS 
AT RUGBY 
LTHOUGH a brief notice of the new schools at 
Rugby has already appeared in the pages of this 
journal, a more detailed account of them may not be 
unacceptable to the readers of NATURE, especially at a 
time when so much attention is being paid to the subject 
of science teaching in schools. 
on each side of the centre table, and ten and six in those 
along the sides of the room. Each compartment com- 
prises a cupboard and two drawers, two shelves for 
bottles, two gas taps, waste basin with water supply, and 
a working space of 3 ft.6in. by 1ft.9 in. The water 
taps and basins in the central table are placed so as to 
serve for boys working on either side, and thus much 
space is gained, The water taps have a small orifice, and 
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GENERAL VIEW OF LABORATORY 
GROUND 
PLAN 
SCALE OF FEET 
o 6S to 20 60 
The accompanying ground-plan will show the general 
arrangement of the rooms. 
The laboratory is 35 ft. by 22, and is intended to 
accommodate thirty boys. It is not, properly speaking, 
one of the new schools, as it was formerly the only Natural 
Science lecture-room ; but it has been much altered and 
entirely refitted, in order to convert it into a laboratory. 
The working tables are divided into compartments, seven 
40 bo 60 
are specially adapted for filling test tubes. A water pipe 
is also carried along the highest shelf and there are taps 
at intervals for filling tall vessels, for working with Lie- 
big’s condenser, &c. 
The sink, with arrangements for washing and drying 
bottles, is seen near the door in the drawing. 
At one end of the room is an open fireplace, with 
shelves and nests of drawers on eitherside. The drawers 
