THE NEW LABORATORIES AT WISLEY. 
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Electric light is installed. 
The Lecture Room is ventilated by means of inlet ventilators and 
an electric extract fan, and the fumes from all fume closets are drawn 
off through ducts connected to electric fans. 
Petrol gas is laid on to all rooms for Bunsen burners &c. 
The sewage is run to a large septic tank bearing an automatic 
distributor ; into this tank the sewage from all other buildings in the 
Garden is also run. 
For purposes of description the building may be divided into 
four sections, the Botanical, the Chemical, the Mycological, and the 
Entomological. The Botanical section includes the old Students' 
Laboratory, which is built into the new building and now serves as 
the Botany Laboratory for the students, a large room for physiological 
research (with accommodation for six workers) , one for Electro-biology, 
and an incubator room. In the Chemical section there is a large 
students' laboratory which provides accommodation for twenty 
students. Attached thereto is the main Lecture Room, available for 
classes in all subjects, with a seating accommodation for fifty. Access 
to the Lecture Room is direct from the main entrance hall. This 
section also contains a Research Laboratory with accommodation 
for four investigators ; a factory room which may be described as a 
chemical workshop ; an outdoor combustion room ; a room and a 
small private laboratory for the head of the Chemical department. 
At present the Chemist of the Society is in the Army, and the detailed 
fittings are to be left till his return. 
The Mycological Laboratories comprise two chief rooms, which 
between them provide accommodation for six workers, a sterilizing 
room and an incubator room. The Botanical, Chemical, and Myco- 
logical laboratories are situated on the ground floor, where are also 
the photographic and dark rooms and the offices of the Director and 
the Head of the School of Horticulture. 
On the upper floor, four rooms, two of which are of considerable 
size, are set apart for Entomology. There are also on that storey the 
Staff Common-room, Students' Common-room, and the Library and 
Herbarium. The Herbarium contains cupboards for 80,000 sheets, 
and will be devoted to collections of plants of horticultural importance. 
There is room on the bookshelves for 8,000 volumes, but the books 
which it is proposed to keep in the Library at Wisley are those which 
are required for the immediate purpose of research, scientific periodi- 
cals, and so forth, and not such as more properly find their place in 
the Lindley Library at Vincent Square. Already the Laboratory is 
fortunate in having received several donations of books both from 
private donors and from public institutions such as Rothamsted. 
Although the staff is reduced considerably owing to the exigencies 
of the war, research work is going on. Thus Dr. Horne is pursuing 
his investigations into American Gooseberry Mildew, and has this 
year succeeded in demonstrating that it is possible to prevent infection 
of the berries by spraying with Burgundy mixture. Mr. Ramsbottom 
