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lecture rooms and offices, store room and large laboratory conveniently 
connected. 
The planning of the furniture of the laboratories was left to the 
professors of the various departments. This necessitated the doing of 
a great deal of such work in a short space of time, and resulted in 
some delays. But when it is considered how much was to be done, 
both in furnishing and in getting together apparatus and books from 
such great distances, it is remarkable how few and short these delays 
re. 
Notwithstanding these difficulties, work began in the departments 
with the very opening day. Not all orders were in, but enough were 
in to start things going, and where tables had not arrived the packing 
boxes of newly arrived apparatus were improvised for their support, 
and abandoned carpenter benches performed new duties, becoming 
daubed with paraffine, doused with alcohol and littered with interest- 
ing Pacific coast forms of animals and plants. Of these latter there 
is no lack. They preceded the apparatus and bid fair to keep in excess 
of all appliances. 
The botanical laboratory is furnished with forty-one compound 
microscopes, including one new Zeiss stand with a series of apochro- 
matics, also microtoms, imbedding apparatus, aquaria and the neces- 
sary glassware, sterilizing apparatus, and all the most used reagents. 
During the past year thirty-five students have occupied tables in 
the botanical laboratory. 
In the department of physiology and histology thirty-two students, 
three of whom were graduate students, have been in attendance. For 
work in these subjects the laboratory is supplied with thirty-six com- 
pound microscopes, a number of dissecting microscopes, two Minot’s 
microtomes, imbedding apparatus and material, a plentiful supply of 
fixing, hardening and staining reagents, mounting materials, ete. For 
work in experimental physiology there are provided kymographs of 
different forms, two registering cylinders of Ludwig’s form and one 
for continuous paper, a pendulum myograph, apparatus for muscle and 
nerve phenomena, galvanometers and other apparatus for electrical 
experiments with nerve and muscle, oncometers, plethysmographs, 
various forms of electrical signals, manometers, time markers, tuning 
forks for time, apparatus for respiration, = the study of optical and 
auditory phenomena, tambours, cardi , tonometers, 
spectroscope, polariscope, spectrophotometer, apparatus for urinalysis, 
for digestion experiments, dissecting instruments, batteries, etc. 
