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Meanwhile the University had assigned an excellent site, 

 plans were obtained from Mr. Arnold Mitchell, F.R.I.B.A., 

 and the building shown in the accompanying illustrations is 

 the result. 



The building consists of three floors, a basement, and 

 attics. In the basement are the heating apparatus, the store- 

 rooms, a room for preparing samples for analysis, and a 

 machinery room. 



On the ground floor is the large lecture hall fitted with 

 museum cases. This floor also contains the office and library, 

 and private rooms for the Professor of Agriculture and the 

 Lecturer in Agriculture. Also a third private room at present 

 occupied by the Reader in Forestry. 



The first floor is devoted to the biological sciences as applied 

 to agriculture. It contains a lecture room, elementary and 

 advanced biological laboratories, and private rooms for the 

 Professor of Agricultural Botany, the lecturers in Agricul- 

 tural Physiology and Zoology, and the consulting zoologist 

 and botanist of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 

 who are at present members of the Staff. 



The second floor is designed for agricultural chemistry 

 and physics, and contains a lecture room, a large elementary 

 laboratory, an advanced laboratory, a balance room, a pre- 

 paration room, and two private rooms for research. 



The attic floor extends over the east half of the building 

 and contains a greenhouse, a photographic dark room, and 

 considerable storage space at present occupied by a collection 

 of timbers which will be transferred ere long to a separate 

 forestry building. 



The building is designed to accommodate an elementary 

 and an advanced class each of about 50 students. When the 

 plans were made the total number of students of agriculture 

 was only just over 40, but since then the numbers have more 

 than doubled. The elementary class now contains over 50 

 students, and the advanced class over 30, and there are about 

 15 students on the books who only attend single classes. The 

 teaching staff numbers ten, exclusive of the Reader and 

 Lecturer in Forestry. 



The Department has outgrown the Impington Farm, and 

 now occupies a holding of about 230 acres belonging to 

 Trinity and Clare Colleges, situated near the Observatory 



