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IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 
The first floor is occupied by the Physics department : a general 
laboratory for the first three terms of study, a dark-room for pho- 
tometer work, a laboratory for light and sound, a laboratory for 
mechanics and heat, a laboratory for electricity, a shop, a storage 
battery room, and a room for apparatus. 
The second floor has a lecture hall for the use of both departments 
with a preparation room adjoining, a physics library, two lecture 
rooms, two instructors' offices, an apparatus room, and a cloak 
room. 
The third floor is devoted to Chemistry, and includes a laboratory 
for general’ chemistry, a supply room for apparatus, a library, a 
private laboratory and preparation room, a lecture room with 
raised floor, a weighing room, a laboratory for quantitative work, 
a room for work with the microscope, polariscope, etc., a supply 
room for chemicals, and a cloak room. 
The building is amply lighted, is well equipped with the best 
apparatus for the work to be done, and is a credit to the State which 
has provided it. 
