THE PHYSICAL LABORATORY AT IOWA COLLEGE. 
BY FRANK F. ALMY. 
With the completion of the new library building, the gift of Andrew 
Carnegie, the old library building, Goodnow Hall, became available for 
Physics and Mathematics. The building is a very substantiaP' red stone 
building, finished throughout in hard wood. 
The first fioor provides two lecture rooms for Mathematics, a room 
for mechanical drawing, a small room for an apparatus and calculating 
room and department library, and a very pleasant room for office and 
consultation room for the department of mathematics. 
The second fioor as remodeled provides the general laboratory for 
Physics which very comfortably accomodates the laboratory work for 
the courses of Elementary and General Physics. Directly adjoining the 
Seco nd FUyoi’: Physics 
general laboratory on one side of the entrance hallway, is the library 
and weighing room; on the other side is a preparation and repair shop, 
containing a work bench and tools, a chemical bench and chemicals, the 
switch-board, a motor and lathe. Firm support for apparatus is obtained 
in the general laboratory by a cement shelf built upon the wall, extend- 
ing the entire length of one side of the room. In the weighing room 
the same result is obtained by a heavy shelf supported upon the wall. 
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