8 THOMPSON YATES LABORATORIES REPORT 
laboratories of Chemistry and Experimental Physiology, by a Research Laboratory, and by the 
necessary small rooms in connection with these, as for instance a galvanometer room opening out 
of the Research Laboratory, a Professor's room opening out of the same, a little lecture room for 
special physiological work, a dark room, and under the raised seats of the theatre an optical room, 
with ample store cupboards. It is over the dark room and the small lecture room that the 
mezzanine is in this case located, and it gives besides a workshop and balance-room accommodation 
for various storage and apparatus, under the charge of the Physiological Professor who occupies the 
private room on the floor below. Upstairs, on the second floor, the principal feature is a large 
class-room for Histology, with a floor area of 2,400 ft. and a wall of north light 60 ft. long. The 
space over the theatre (which, by the way, has a high level entrance from the upper mezzanine, 
as well as the entrance at the first floor), is occupied by a preparation and research room in 
connection with the Histology department, and the remaining roof spaces are taken up by rooms 
for combustion, distillation and storage. The basement, which extends under the whole of the 
front block, contains a Students' common room, an engine room, a heating chamber, and ample 
space for storage. Externally the Laboratories are of the same materials as have been employed in 
the main structure of the College — Liverpool grey bricks and Ruabon terra cotta. The necessity 
for enormous windows has rather defied the usual canons of architectural proportion, but the 
building will perhaps not be thought the worse of for exhibiting on its face the requirements of its 
internal use. 
Noticeable upon the gable which first catches the eye of those who enter through the main 
College archway, is the modelled panel due to the skill of Mr. C. J. Allen. The rather blank 
aspect of that part of the west front which adjoins the entrance is due to the preparation for future 
extension, the intention being to throw an archway across from the newly erected block to the 
buildings which will no doubt eventually find a place to the west of it. The possibility of such 
an extension has been kept in view on all floors, 
Messrs. A. Waterhouse & Son were the architects of the buildings; the general contractors 
were Messrs. W. Tomkinson and Sons, to whom the fittings were also entrusted ; and the whole 
of the works have been under the superintendence of Mr. Dampier as clerk of works. 
The School of Physiology 
In the new Thompson Yates Laboratories the School of Physiology occupies the first and 
second floors of the building. As the visitor ascends by the main staircase he reaches, on arriving 
at the first floor, an open landing. From this and from the short corridor, continuous with it 
toward the east, open a number of rooms, which may be described in the following order. On 
the visitor's left hand, as he steps from the staircase upon the landing, the glazed door opens into 
the room for Chemical Physiology. This room will serve at once as a class-room and a research 
room. It can accommodate a class of more than fifty students, allowing to each one of them a 
separate table space for the carrying out of the exercises required of candidates taking Physiology 
for the degrees of B.Sc. or M.B. of the University. At each student's place there are provided 
