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northern exposure giving eseellent lighting. 

 This space is chiefly devoted to two large 

 laboratories — the introductory and the ad- 

 vanced, respectively. Each of these labora- 

 tories is forty-eight by fifty-three feet in size, 

 and is lighted from three sides by nine very 

 wide windows of plate glass. The heavily 

 paneled ceiling is tinted pure white, and the 

 paneling is supported by a row of beautiful 

 scagliola columns running through the center 

 of the laboratory. The side walls are tinted 

 light buff. 



The furniture is all of quartered oak, 

 finished " Early English." Slate is used 

 throughout for the tops of all laboratory 

 tables. The tables assigned to students ex- 

 tend over sixteen feet into the room from the 

 several windows, and their slate tops taper 

 toward a narrow end away from the window, 

 a device which permits each student to obtain 

 unobstructed light for his work. These tables 

 have a new and particularly successful form of 

 electric microscope-lamp for every two stu- 

 dents. Outlets for Bunsen burners comprise 

 a part of the fixture at the base of each lamp. 

 An abundance of individual drawer space is 

 provided for each student. Microscope cabi- 

 nets are ranged conveniently on the wall. 

 And cabinet, drawer, microscope, lock, key — • 

 each is stamped with its own number. 



The laboratory for introductory courses ac- 

 commodates fifty-two students at one time; 

 and the number of individual drawers permits 

 the handling of two hundred and eight stu- 

 dents in all. The advanced laboratory seats 

 forty-four workers at one time, and the details 

 of the tables here are especially adapted to 

 such courses as require the extensive use of 

 biologica,l reagents. Each of these main 

 laboratories has an adequate quota of general 

 furniture designed for it, including cases for 

 laboratory apparatus, a hood in the corner 

 where reagents may be prepared without taint- 

 ing the air of the room, and a large aquarium 

 with an abundance of small jets of running 

 water. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 M. Henri Becqueeel has been elected presi- 

 dent of the Paris Academy of Sciences, and 



is succeeded in the vice-presidency by M. 

 Bouchard. 



Professor W. W. Campbell, director of the 

 Lick Observatory, and his party have returned 

 from Flint Island, having obtained excellent 

 photographs of the recent total eclipse of the 

 sun. 



The Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. 

 Petersburg has elected Professor Sir George 

 Darwin, of Cambridge University, and Pro- 

 fessor- Charles R. Lanman, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, to be corresponding members. 



The German Chemical Society has elected 

 as honorary members M. Beequerel, of Paris; 

 Sir William Crookes, of London; Dr. C. von 

 Linde, of Munich; Professor E. Solvay, of 

 Brussels, and Professor J. Thomson, of Copen- 

 hagen. 



At the general meeting of the Royal Meteor- 

 ological Society, on January 15, M. Teisserenc 

 de Bort, the distinguished French meteorolo- 

 gist, was presented with the Symons memorial 

 gold medal of the society, and the president. 

 Dr. H. R. Mill, delivered an address on " Map 

 Studies of Rainfall." 



M. Baillaud, of the Toulouse Observatory, 

 has been appointed director of the Paris Ob- 

 servatory. 



C. E. Moss, D.Sc. (Victoria University), 

 has been appointed curator of the herbarium 

 of Cambridge University. 



Dr. William F. M. Goss will be installed 

 as dean of the College of Engineering of the 

 University of Illinois on February 25. In the 

 morning there will be addresses by the presi- 

 dent of the university, by representatives of 

 the trustees, of the alumni and of the faculty; 

 followed by the installation address of Dean 

 Goss. In the afternoon there is an insfyection 

 of equipment, followed by addresses of visit- 

 ing engineers. These exercises are to be in 

 connection with the formal opening of the 

 graduate school, which occurs on February 

 4 and 5. 



A DINNER in honor of Dr. Rudolf Leonhard, 

 Kaiser Wilhehn professor at Columbia Uni- 

 versity this year, and Dr. John W. Burgess, 

 Theodore Roosevelt professor at Berlin last 



