406  A  Well-Equipped  College  of  Pharmacy.     { September hia9T7 
cognosy  laboratory,  a  students'  lunch  and  locker  room,  and  a  suite 
of  three  rooms  for  photographic  purposes  consisting  of  a  dark  room, 
a  developing  room  and  a  camera  room.  The  photographic  depart- 
ment is  furnished  with  an  arc  lamp,  mercury  lamps,  and  with  other 
equipment  required  for  general  photographic  and  micro-photo- 
graphic work.  The  east  half  of  this  floor  contains  a  large  pharma- 
ceutical manufacturing  laboratory  for  the  rougher  work,  a  locker 
room  and  a  storage  room.  There  are  two  front  entrances  and  three 
rear  entrances  to  this  lower  floor.  The  central  rear  entrance  leads 
into  the  sub-basement  unpacking  room,  from  which  room  shipments 
and  material  are  distributed  to  the  respective  parts  of  the  building 
by  the  elevator,  which  has  its  lower  terminus  in  this  room.  Nearby 
a  room  supplies  space  for  acids  and  inflammable  chemicals  and  in 
one  of  the  angles  of  the  room  the  motor  for  the  vacuum  cleaning 
system  is  placed. 
The  first  floor  contains  the  lobby,  which  is  lighted  from  the 
ceiling  by  a  cluster  fixture.  The  main  clock  is  located  here.  The 
floor  of  this  hall  as  well  as  of  the  upper  halls  is  of  tile.  The  east 
half  of  this  floor  contains  the  library,  the  dean's  offices  and  private 
laboratory.  In  the  west  half  is  located  the  pharmacognosy  labo- 
ratory proper  and  a  preparation  room  and  an  office.  The  west  half 
of  the  second  floor  contains  the  lecture  room,  the  east  half  a  smaller 
lecture  room  and  the  dispensing  laboratory  and  stock  and  prepara- 
tion room.  The  third  or  top  floor  is  devoted  entirely  to  laboratory 
purposes,  the  west  half  containing  the  pharmaceutical  chemistry 
laboratory  with  preparation  and  stock  rooms  and  the  State  Board 
of  Pharmacy  stock  room.  The  east  half  is  taken  up  by  the  pharma- 
ceutical laboratory  with  adjoining  stock  and  preparation  room  and 
balance  room.  The  upper  floor  is  lighted  not  only  by  large  win- 
dows, but  by  a  ceiling  skylight  as  well.  The  roof  is  entirely  fire- 
proof, of  steel  and  concrete  construction  with  slate  shingles,  the 
whole  surmounted  by  a  lantern  skylight  containing  three  large  venti- 
lators to  ventilate  especially  the  two  upper  laboratories.  The  spa- 
cious room  in  the  attic  is  utilized  for  the  drying  or  curing  of  drugs 
from  the  drug  garden. 
The  furniture  equipment  is  almost  entirely  of  steel,  consisting  of 
steel  work-tables,  cupboards,  lockers,  cabinets,  shelves,  hoods,  drug 
bins,  animal  cages,  library  stacks,  etc.  The  steel  furniture  is  made 
of  a  heavy  gauge  steel  covered  with  an  olive  green  baked-on  enamel. 
All  tops  are  of  cypress  stained  black  to  withstand  the  action  of  acids, 
alkalies  and  chemicals  generally. 
