FEBRUARY 15, 1901. ] 
Tudor Gothic which appears so prominently 
in the buildings of the Universities of Oxford 
and Cambridge. The amount of cut stone 
in the buildings will be large ; the material 
used for this purpose comes from the Bed- 
ford quarries of Indiana. The field of the 
walls is to be of rubble masonry of red Mis- 
souri granite. It is expected that the five 
buildings now under way will be completed 
in about one year. 
Besides these gifts, the University has 
recently received gifts for its endowment 
fund of three and a half million dollars, 
part available at once and part available 
after a few years. 
W. S. CHAPLIN, 
Chancellor. 
THE BUSCH CHEMICAL LABORATORY. 
THE new chemical laboratory of Wash- 
ington University, the plans of which ap- 
pear in this number of Scrence, is the 
generous gift of Mr. Adolphus Busch of St. 
Louis, who has given the University $100, - 
000, for its construction and equipment. 
The building is situated on the south side 
of the university quadrangle, and as the 
ground slopes away on this side, the new 
laboratory is two stories high on the north 
front and three stories on the south. 
Directly opposite on the quadrangle is the 
Cupples Hall No. 1 devoted to Civil Engi- 
neering and Architecture, while adjoining 
it on the east is the large and beautiful Uni- 
versity Hall. The windows of the Busch 
laboratory command a beautiful view of the 
campus tothe north and west, while to the 
south and east they overlook the wooded 
hills of Forets Park. The laboratory stands 
to-day as an enduring monument to the 
liberality of Mr. Busch. 
The architects of the building are 
Messrs. Cope and Stewardson of Phila- 
delphia and St. Louis, who a few years 
ago designed the John Harrison Laboratory 
of Chemistry of the University of Penn- 
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sylvania. In planning this laboratory they 
have retained all of the desirable features 
of the Pennsylvania laboratory, they have 
avoided everything that experience has 
shown to be undesirable and have in a 
number of ways improved upon their 
earlier work. 
The building is of Tudor Gothic design, 
the walls are of Missouri granite, the orna- . 
mental cut stone work of the windows and 
doors is of Bedford limestone. It is of 
fire-proof construction throughout. From 
the illustrations it will be seen that the 
building is long and narrow. The length 
is 291 feet and the width 60 feet. This 
plan was adopted in order that all the 
rooms may be well lighted, and since the 
main length of the building extends from 
east to west, a long north front with ample 
window space is secured for the main 
working laboratories. 
Entering at the east front door, one finds 
immediately on the left the large lecture 
theater, a room 46 feet by 30 feet 10 inches. 
The rows of seats rise one above another, 
and there are places for 186 students. The 
front of the lecture room is half a flight 
lower than the rear. Immediately in the 
rear of the lecture theater and communicat- 
ing with it is the preparation room. Here 
the lecture experiments are prepared and 
the apparatus and chemicals used in the 
lectures are stored. 
Passizrg westward in the main corridor 
on the first floor, one finds on the right a 
large laboratory devoted to general chem- 
istry. This room is 130 feet 6 inches by 
18 feet. Here are working tables for the 
accommodation of 125 students. The new 
feature in this laboratory is that each 
working table is placed with one end 
against a window. On each side of the 
table are drawers and cupboards for four 
students. Hach table, having a window at 
the end, is well lighted, and no student 
works further than twelve feet from a win- 
