classes may leave the building without disturbing others engaged in 
laboratory practice. The first, or basement floor, is devoted to a light 
and convenient work-shop. The shaft running the iron and wood- 
working machinery is continued into the lathe room of the lithological 
laboratory. The laboratories for physics are supplied with firm piers 
for delicate instruments, while microscope tables in the biological 
rooms may be so bracketed to the walls as to be quite independent of 
possible floor vibrations. A large and well-lighted room in the attic 
may be used in any way desired. The following added particulars are 
furnished by the architects : 
The building will cover a space 56 ft. 8 in., by 79 ft. , exclusive of 
entrance porches or tower projections. The octagonal museum room 
has a projection of 22 ft. 6 in. The materials used in construction 
will be native freestone and pressed brick, trimed with Kilbuck brown 
sandstone, and, for the roof, slate and iron. The interior should be 
furnished in cherry, oak and ash. The building will be heated by 
steam, lighted by electricity from dynamos in the basement, and ven- 
tilated by the latest improved methods. Water plumbing throughout, 
with toilet rooms and the L. B. Robb patent crematory closet system 
complete the appointments of the building proper. The estimated 
cost falls between $25,000 and $35,000, depending upon the details 
of construction. 
Explanation of Diagrams. 
A. Museum. 
B. Biological preparation room with dark-room and closet. 
C. Halls. 
D. Elevator shaft. 
E. General physical laboratory. 
G. Delicate instruments. 
H. Lecture room, with raised amphitheater seating. 
I. Chemical preparation room. 
K. Physical preparation room. 
L. Chemical laboratory. 
M. Lift. 
N. Stock room and dark room. 
O. Balance room. Spectroscope room adjoining dark room. 
P. Mineralogical laboratory. 
Q. Class-room of mineralogy and geology, separated from gal- 
lery of museum by glass sash and a steel shutters. 
R. Chemical laboratory study. Organic and gas analysis. 
S. Biological laboratory. 
