LABORATORY FOR ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY 



The new building for entomology and zoology which, was dedi- 

 cated November 11, 1910, is located slightly north of, and a little 

 farther from the street than the old entomological laboratory. It is 

 constructed of brick, with stone trimmings, a steel frame, reinforced 

 cement floors and a slate roof, and is considered to be entirely fire- 

 proof. It is in the form of an H, the cross bar being carried toward 

 the front, thus giving a central building and two wings. It has a 

 frontage of 124 feet, while the wings are 100 feet in length. 



The central portion in front is devoted to offices, supply rooms, 

 and a library on the second floor. Behind is an amphitheater rising 

 from the basement and accommodating about 180 persons. Above 

 this, on the second floor, is the insect room, twenty by forty feet, 

 and a filing and stenographer's room. The north wing contains the 

 zoological laboratory and a room for microtomy on the first floor, and 

 the senior and graduate entomological laboratories on the second floor. 

 In the south wing are the zoological museum, and three rooms for 

 the entomological work of the experiment station, one of which is 

 connected with the greenhouse for experimental work on insects. On 

 the second floor of this wing are the gallery of the museum, an 

 advanced lecture room, accommodating sixty persons, and a graduate 

 laboratory for zoology. In the basement, besides the amphitheater, 

 are rooms for determinative mineralogy and geology, for the rock 

 collections, a pump and apparatus room, an insecticide analysis room, 

 and toilet and fan rooms. In the attic are rooms for photography 

 and developing, a storage room and the janitors' quarters. 



The building is lighted by electricity and heated by steam from 

 the central heat and light plant of the college. 



The building is provided with spacious museum rooms for the 

 exhibition of the collections in zoology and geology. The collections 

 have been built up for illustrative purposes in the courses of instruc- 

 tion in these subjects and are already large and diversified for many 

 branches of the work. Further materials needed to make the collec- 

 tions more effective instruments of instruction are constantly being 

 added. The department has been fortunate during the past year in 

 receiving valuable gifts from friends and alumni for the museum, of 

 which notice has already been made. 



The zoological museum consists of a main floor-space on the 

 ground floor of the building and a large gallery floor-space which at 

 present is only partly occupied and which permits of considerable 

 further growth. The 12,000 specimens comprising the collection, many 

 of which, of course, are small, are exhibited in sixteen large cases. 



On the basement floor is a geological museum provided with six 

 large cases for the exhibition of the geological collections which are 

 steadily growing in size and in consequence usefulness for purposes 

 of instruction. 



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