12 THOMPSON YATP:S LABORATORIES REPORT 
himself making use of the ' graphic ' metiiod of stud)^ These exercises form a large part of the 
work required by the candidates taking Physiology as a subject for the University degrees of 
Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Medicine. Each student's place is provided with electric 
light, water, gas, electric wire for supply of current, induction coil, electric batter)', recording 
drum driven by fixed pulleys from the shafting running above the table, electric keys, heliostat 
apparatus for examining contraction of muscle, the beat of the heart, the measurements of 
respiration, &c., &c. Experiments in examination of the senses are also conducted in this room, 
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and the student is taught to test the delicacy and the deficiencies of his vision, hearing, touch, 
sense of temperature, tune, and space, &c. Few guess the possibilities, fewer still the limitations 
and deceptions of their own senses, until they are systematically introduced to them. A student's 
pendulum myograph, by Palmer (London), by whom were supplied also tlie recording cylinders, 
shafting and gearing, and much of the accessory apparatus, and a small Kelvin's reflecting 
galvanometer, complete the instalment of this room. 
A small dark room for photographic work, and another larger for experiments on vision, on 
this floor remain to be mentioned. The latter is supplied with arc-lights, a small electro motor, 
and with shafting, heliostat apparatus for examination of colour blindness, the mixing of spectral 
