DESCRIPTION OF LABORATORIES 9 
gas, water, vacuum-pipe, filter and filter-stand, shelves containing chemical reagents m bottles, 
and a cupboard fitted with the necessary apparatus allotted for his individual use. Too often the 
lighting of the Chemistry class-room suffers from the screening of the windows or bench-tops by 
ranks of shelves for the reagent bottles. Here this defect has been avoided. Eight large windows 
magnificently light it, and the shelves have been arranged in such a way as to leave the access of 
daylight perfectly free. In addition to the ordinary benches, three smaller are elaborately fitted, 
to serve advanced students or research-workers to the number of six. The wood of the benches 
is throughout of teak. A gallery of pitchpine and iron, reached by an iron stairway, runs the 
whole length of the north side of the room. This carries glazed wall-cases for the storage of 
glass and chemical apparatus, and there are other wall-cases at each end of the room. Three 
fume-chambers on glazed brick piers are provided. The room is fitted with a main water supply, 
CHfMicAr. Ph-vsiologv 
a hot water supply, a steam supply especially connected witli a set of drying ovens, a distilling 
apparatus, and a number of taps supplied by a pipe bringing water from the high-pressure cistern 
in the Tower of the Victoria Building. The lighting for evening work is by ceiling pendants, 
carrying incandescent electric lamps. There is also a cable and switch for the electric arc. 
Against the long east wall are filter-pumps, glass-blower's table, and incubators for fermentation 
work. The chemical side of Physiology is one of rapidly increasing economic importance. It 
embraces the whole subject ot food and dietaries, and problems nt cheapening and of manu- 
