December 27, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



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School, tlie University Elementary School, and 

 the College of Education. Here, too, some of 

 the meetings will be held and here likewise 

 luncheon can be secured. Westward beyond 

 Cobb Hall one sees a structure like Lexing- 

 ton Hall erected as a temporary recitation 

 biiilding for men. Here may be found the 

 campus headquarters of the Astronomical De- 

 partment though the departmental library is 

 in Eyerson Laboratory. Just north of Ellis 

 stands at the corner of Ellis and Eifty-eighth 

 a red-brick structure, the Press Building. 

 Here for the present are the business offices, 

 the general library and the university press. 

 The last-named division of the university has 

 charge of all printing and publishing for the 

 institution and of the purchase and distribu- 

 tion of books and supplies. The list of pub- 

 lished books numbers about 375. Last year 

 thirty-three books were issued. Eourteen 

 journals are printed at regular intervals. The 

 function of the press and the attitude of the 

 university toward the same are things worthy 

 of attention. And beyond the Press Building 

 is the power house whence come the heat 

 and light and filtered water for all of the 

 thirty-odd structures. 



Having taken this survey of a miscellaneous 

 group of buildings of minor importance to 

 scientists the visitor will desire to enter the 

 building where Professor Chamberlin and his 

 colleagues do their work. The collections in 

 Walker are estimated to embrace over one 

 million specimens, including the general geo- 

 logical, the anthropological, and the paleonto- 

 logical collections. The general geological 

 collection contains material illustrating struc- 

 tural phenomena, fossils, geographical ma- 

 terial, economic geology, mineralogy and 

 petrography. In addition to the anthro- 

 pological collection of ethnographic arche- 

 ologic material there are the Eyerson collec- 

 tions in Mexican archeology and from the 

 cliff-dwellings and cave houses of Utah, the 

 Clement collection from Japan, and the ma- 

 terial collected by Professor Starr among the 

 Ainu of Japan and the native tribes of the 

 Congo Eree State. The paleontological col- 

 lection of invertebrates contains a large 

 amount of material, especially from the 



Paleozoic horizons. Here also are the col- 

 lections of Hall, Gurley, James, Washburn, 

 Krantz, Weller, Sampson, Eaber, Bassler and 

 Van Home. The collection of vertebrate 

 fossils includes extensive series of the Amer- 

 ican Permian reptiles, Triassic reptiles and 

 amphibians, Niobrara Cretaceous birds, rep- 

 tiles and fishes, with a considerable material 

 from the Laramie Cretaceous and Wliite River 

 Oligocene. 



Across the eampiis are the first two labora- 

 tories erected. Kent Chemical Laboratory 

 was erected in 1893. The basement contains 

 a furnace room for crucible work, muffle work, 

 tube-heating, and other purposes ; a constant 

 temperature room, a room fitted with steam 

 and other appliances for work on a large scale, 

 a mechanical workshop, and storage-rooms. 

 On the first floor are one small and two large 

 lecture rooms, and a large lecture hall seating 

 three hundred persons, fitted for us© as a 

 chemical lecture room, if desired. This floor 

 also contains a chemical museum, a large 

 private laboratory, a room with northern ex- 

 posure, especially fitted for use as a gas- 

 analysis laboratory, and also apparatus and 

 preparation rooms connected with the lecture 

 rooms. On the second floor are two large 

 laboratories for research and quantitative 

 analysis; three private laboratories for the 

 professors; balance, combustion, and air- 

 furnace rooms; a balcony for out-of-door 

 work; and the chemical library. On the third 

 floor are three laboratories for general and 

 analytical chemistry, a storeroom, a prepara- 

 tion room, a room especially fitted for optical 

 and photographic work, a balance room, and 

 two private laboratories. 



East of Kent is the Eyerson Physical 

 Laboratory. The central part of the fourth 

 fioor forms a hall for experiments requiring 

 a large space. The roof above this portion is 

 flat and suitable for observations in the open 

 air. The third floor is devoted to a general 

 laboratory for the undergraduate work in gen- 

 eral physics, which with its adjoining appa- 

 ratus and preparation rooms occupies the en- 

 tire floor of the east wing. On the same floor 

 are found two general laboratories and class 

 rooms. On the second floor are found a large 



