April 19, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



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coils, and is then blown by an electric fan 

 through ducts opening in the side walls of the 

 laboratory. Fumes pass out not only through 

 the individual fume flues of the hoods, but 

 also through numerous flues opening a little 

 below the ceiling along all the walls. These 

 flues have also openings near the floor, so that 

 either opening may be used as occasion de- 

 mands. Spectroscope accommodations are 

 furnished in the four corners of this labora- 

 tory. One feature worthy of notice is the 

 broad eight-foot aisles between the lines of 

 desks. This gives abundant room to every 

 student. 



Supply Room (6x16). This room is of 

 two stories and is intended to be used for the 

 issuing of reagents and as a storage room for 

 smaller glass apparatus. 



Instructor's Room (12x16). Because of 

 the great height of its ceiling this room has a 

 gallery around two sides, thus greatly in- 

 creasing the storage space for chemicals, be- 

 cause of the increased wall spaee for shelving. 

 The distilled-water apparatus is here located 

 and the supply of distilled water is here stored 

 in a tin4ined copper tank, the water being 

 tapped ofi therefrom to a spigot in the main 

 laboratory. The room is equipped with com- 

 plete apparatus suitable for a private labora- 

 tory. 



Ward Room (10x16). Fitted with the 

 usual accommodations for receiving hats and 

 coats of the students. 



Organic Combustion Room (8x16). This 

 room is fitted with Alberene stone tables, gas, 

 blast and suction and is arranged to receive 

 the combustion train for the usual work in 

 organic combustion. 



Third Floor. — The Lecture Room (50 x 

 41 ft. 6 in.) has seating accommodations for 

 two hundred men. It contains the large lec- 

 ture table with pneumatic trough and the 

 other essentials to fit it for lecture uses. It 

 is lighted by three small and six very large 

 windows. On the wall opposite the lecture 

 table there projects a gallery intended to hold 

 the electric lantern for illustration work. 

 This gallery is entered from the floor above. 

 .Private Laboratory (16 x 24). This room is 



fitted as a private laboratory for the professor 

 of chemistry and contains the usual comple- 

 ment of heeds, water baths and other appli- 

 ances suitable to such use. 



The Laboratory for Gas Analysis (11 x 16) 

 contains Alberene-stone table, water, gas and 

 blast accommodations, with suitable shelving 

 to accommodate the apparatus for which the 

 room is intended to be used. 



The Special Laboratory (10x16) is fitted 

 in the same manner as that of gas analysis 

 and is intended to be used for such special 

 work as the examination of food products, etc. 



Fourth Floor. — Water Laboratory (20x31). 

 This laboratory is fitted with Alberene-topped 

 tables and with water appliances suitable to 

 the very complete examination of questions 

 dealing with the examination of potable, min- 

 eral and boiler waters. Appliances are here 

 established for undertaking such examinations 

 from both the chemical and the bacteriological 

 sides. An especially devised table for the 

 determination of free and albuminoid am- 

 monia permits of the analysis of six waters at 

 once. Suitable provision is made for the 

 sterilizers, incubators and other apparatus pe- 

 culiar to a water laboratory. 



Section Room (20 x 20) . This room is 

 fitted with blackboards and is intended for use 

 as a recitation room in chemistry. It has 

 accommodations for a section of about twenty- 

 five men at a time. 



The Halls. — The halls throughout the build- 

 ing are eight feet in width. 



Lighting. — The building is piped for gas, 

 but it is as a precaution only, inasmuch as 

 electricity is to be depended upon for lighting 

 purposes. 



W. P. Mason 



ALLAN MACFADTEN 

 At the early age of forty-six years Dr. Allan 

 Macfadyen has been taken away from his 

 work. By an accident in the laboratory in 

 which he was working a preparation of the 

 serum for Malta fever infected him — the in- 

 fection seems to have been through the eyes — 

 and death carried him away. Professor Mac- 

 fadyen was educated in Edinburgh and grad- 



