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of the possibility of a Government laboratory beinf established 
in Providence, 'rof. York imme/diately became actively interested 
and begun to devise ways and means for bringing it to the 
University. He promptly brought the matter to the attention 
of President Faunce only a few days before he sailed abroad, 
and later to the a tent ion of Actinf President Everett and 
various other University aaathKT±±±KS officials, all of w- om 
heartily approved and seconded -rof. York's efforts. 
The new Government laboratory will occupy what has been 
known in the past as the laboratory for first year students 
in Botany., in the basement of ilaxcy Hall. This has been £ 
made possible by Prof. York's voluntary withdrawal of certain 
classes from the room to another which will be fitted up for 
him elsewhere in the buildinf, 
A Journal representative learned that several other /> 
possible locations for the new laboratory in Providence have 
been under consideration. One of these was at the Bt- te House, 
where Secretary J. J. Dunn,of the State Board, of Africulture, 
used every effort to obtain suitable quarters in that building*. 
Governor Pothier became „ ersonally interested but early expressed 
his fear that the present crowded condition of the building* 
would make it practically impossible to offer sufficiently 
attractive quarters. later it v -s found that none of the 
available rooms in the State House was so well xx±fcxj& adapted 
for the work as that offered at Brown University. 
In return for the laboratory quarters the Resident Patholo¬ 
gist will five a eirtain number of lectures or demonstrations 
each year before the advanced classes in Botany in Brown University 
