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MISSOURI STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, 
Keference Library. — This is a separate library, kept in a separate 
room. We have secured the American Encyclopaedia, several Dictionaries, 
and many leading text-books. The aim is to make this the most extensive 
library of the kind in the West. Through the liberality of publishers, we 
hope to secure all the most important text-books published in this country 
and Europe. 
Professional Library. — This is kept in the Principal’s room, and is 
designed to embrace all books and reports that can aid teachers. 
From the Text-Book Library Boom, which opens into the Assembly and 
Study Rooms, and is accessible at all hours, students can procure books at 
wholesale prices. 
It is found better to have students own their books. To reduce the cost to 
the minimum seems to be a necessity. This arrangement, it is believed, will 
give better satisfaction than any other. 
Apparatus. — Several hundred dollars have been expended in the purchase 
of apparatus. Although the supply is small, it embraces the articles neces- 
sary for most of the philosophical and chemical experiments given in the 
ordinary text-books. Additions will be made each year, as circumstances 
seem to require. 
In Chemistry, experiments are performed by the students. Our Labora- 
tory will be as complete as it is possible to make it. Pains will be taken to 
show how many of the important and leading principles of science can be 
taught and illustrated by means of simple and inexpensive apparatus. This 
is deemed necessary, as we are preparing teachers mainly for public schools, 
in which they will have but little apparatus. 
Cabinet.— The Cabinet Room is one of the best in the country ; it is 85 
feet long and 34 feet wide, with office rooms attached. 
A beginning in this department has been made, and it is hoped that friends 
of the Institution will make some etfort to procure specimens and help build 
up this valuable aid. All donations will be registered, together with the 
name of the donor and locality of the specimen presented. 
Donations.— We return our warmest thanks to donors, for valuable 
contributions to our Libraries, Reading Room and Cabinet, and respectfully 
solicit additional favors. 
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