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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. X'V. No. 389. 



Smith College has possessed for four 

 years, as an adjunct of the Department of 

 Botany, a thoroughly built, properly 

 stocked and fully manned range of green- 

 houses, known as the Lyman Plant House, 

 of which the ground-plan is illustrated 

 herewith (Fig. 1). The new laboratory 

 and greenhouse, now completed, have been 

 attached to the range as shown in this plan. 

 The storage house is at present used as a 

 cool house for plants not in growth, but 

 it is so built that, if the expansion of the 

 college work requires, it can be added to 

 the experiment house by the simple re- 

 moval of a partition. 



The appearance of the laboratory in re- 

 lation to the greenhouses is shoAvn in Fig. 

 2. The laboratory appears in the center 



There are three sorts of tables. The study 

 tables, at which each student has a place 

 with a drawer for personal effects, are of 

 the plain laboratory sort. The apparatus 

 tables, for the assembling of the appliances 

 for experiments, are made three feet in 

 height for convenience of working stand- 

 ing, and beneath them the space is utilized 

 for cupboards in which bell- jars and the 

 larger glassware are stored. The gas and 

 tool table, in front of a window (on the 

 left of Fig. 3), also three feet in height, 

 is fully equipped mth the appliances sug- 

 gested by its name. There are three sets 

 of cases. One is for balances, shown on 

 the left of Fig. 4, with three compartments, 

 and glass doors (shown open in the pic- 

 ture) . This is affixed to the brick wall dis- 



FiG 2 Geneial View of the Lyman Plant House, with the New 

 Laboratory in the foreground. 



of the picture ; to the right is seen the gar- 

 dener 's work room, and beyond that a por- 

 tion of the horticultural laboratory, while 

 the greenhouses extend in parallel rows 

 behind these buildings. The laboratory 

 is plainly but thoroughly built of brick, 

 of 20 X 28 feet in area, and is designed to 

 afford ample, but not unnecessary, room 

 for twelve students. The intex'ior arrange- 

 ments are well shown by Figs. 3 and 4. 



connected from the floor, and its top is 

 utilized for the storage of large articles. 

 The second is for chemicals, shown on the 

 right in Fig. 4 (also with glass doors open), 

 with cupboards beneath. The third con- 

 sists of three cases for the storage of the 

 more elaborate appliances, of which the 

 equipment is excellent; they are partially 

 shown with closed doors on the left of Fig. 

 3. Beneath them are many drawers, for 



