January 5, 1894.] 
THE McMILLAN CHEMICAL LABORATORY. 
BY DELOS FALL, ALBION, MICH. 
Tuis building, the generous gift of Senator James Mc- 
Millan, is now completed and will be devoted exclusively 
to the Department of Chemistry. It was dedicated Nov. 
15 with appropriate exercises, addresses being delivered 
by Professor A. B. Prescott, of Michigan University, 
Professor H. H. Donaldson, of Chicago University, Senator 
McMillan, Professor Washington Gardner and others. 
The plans were drawn by Mr. E. W. Arnold, architect, 
of Detroit; the building was erected by the firm of Wal- 
lace & Morris, builders and contractors, of Detroit. 
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of galvanized iron. The foundations are of stone. From 
the ground to the first story window-sill, the outside is 
faced with cut stone ashlar in courses. 
The exterior treatment is colonial in character, which 
will give to the building a quiet dignity and, at the same 
time, perfect appropriateness to the purposes for which it 
is erected. 
The basement story is 10 feet high and contains a boiler 
and fuel room, an assay laboratory with three furnaces 
and a fire table; a hall, a fire-proof storage vault; a re- 
search room, fitted with tables, ventilating hoods, etc; a 
room for large gas tanks holding oxygen and hydrogen; 
a distilling room, with fire-proof tables, hoods, ete.; a 
The cut of the exterior and the floor plans here pre- 
sented will give the reader a general idea of the struc- 
ture. The general form of a building that would best 
suit the requirements of the various departments was 
found to be a rectangle, 52x88 feet. This is divided 
into two parts in each story by a hall 13 feet in width. 
This provides a wide, recessed entrance on both sides of 
the building. 
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There are three stories and a basement, all abundantly 
lighted by high and broad windows. 
All outside and inside walls are of brick. The entran- 
ces, sills, lintels, copings, etc., are cut stone, the cornices 
lavatory, a storage room, and a second large research 
room. 
Tn the first story, which is 13 feet high, there is, on one 
side of the hall, the organic laboratory, 27 x 30 feet, con- 
taining tables for 24 students, with 29 feet of hoods, also 
wall tables, cases for chemicals, etc. Adjacent to this is 
the quantitative laboratory, 22x30 feet, with tables for 
20 students, hoods, wall tables, etc.; a combustion room, 
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10x17 feet, and dispensing room, 10 x 21 feet. 
On the other side of the hall is the instructor's study 
with a private stairway to the basement and the lecture 
room above, ‘This is furnished with book cases, fire place, 
