electrical instruments and machines, and for extended tests and investigations, especially in the line of alternating currents, electric oscillations, and discharge through gases.

In addition to the electrical equipment of the Scott Laboratory the dynamo-room in the boiler house contains a 25-horsepower Ball engine, and a 171⁄2-kilowatt General Electric directcurrent generator, with accessory apparatus.

THE CRAWFORD MEMORIAL FUND. A fund of five thousand dollars has been given by Hanford Crawford, of St. Louis, in memory of the Reverend Morris D'Camp Crawford, who was a trustee of Wesleyan University from 1871 to 1896. The proceeds of this fund are devoted to the purchase of apparatus for the department of physics, or to the promotion of research in the same department.

THE CHEMICAL LABORATORY finds accommodation on the lower floors of Judd Hall. Two lecture and recitation rooms provide facilities for class instruction. The larger of the two is capable of seating one hundred and ten persons.

The laboratory courses are likewise accommodated in two rooms, one of which is reserved exclusively for the use of students in quantitative analysis. In the other, which is the general laboratory room, there are desks for more than fifty students.

The very valuable library of chemical periodicals collected by the late Professor Atwater is housed in the chemical laboratory and is accessible to instructors and students alike.

Announcement was made at the opening of college, September, 1916, of the gift of $150,000 by Mrs. Gardiner Hall, Jr., of South Willington, Conn., in memory of her husband, for the construction of a new chemical laboratory.

THE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY occupies six rooms in Judd Hall, and is capable of accommodating about thirty students. Five rooms are used for general laboratory purposes, of which two are devoted to miscellaneous laboratory work, one to general laboratory work of large classes, one to coarse dissection, and one to bacteriological work. The laboratory is equipped with all the apparatus necessary for elementary biological work, and is provided with an abundance of material

for anatomical and histological study. The general laboratory room contains a type collection illustrating all orders of animals, and students are allowed to use the large museum collection for comparison and direct study. The laboratory is especially well equipped for bacteriological work. Advanced students of the department have also the advantage of the use of the State Bacteriological Laboratory, located in the John Bell Scott Memorial.

THE AMOS JAY GIVENS BIOLOGICAL FUND. A fund of twenty-five thousand dollars has been given by Amos Jay Givens, M. D., LL. D., of Stamford, the income of which is to be used for the equipment and maintenance of the department of biology, or for the promotion of research in that department.

The Machine SHOP occupies the west room in the boiler house, and is in charge of a skilled mechanician. It is equipped with first-class power lathes, planer, shaper, etc., and affords ample facilities for the construction of new apparatus, for purposes both of demonstration and of investigation; for the repair of apparatus already in use; and, to a limited extent, for the instruction of advanced students who have exceptional mechanical aptitude.

MATHEMATICAL MODELS. This collection, the gift of Ebenezer Hill (B. A., 1870), of South Norwalk, Conn., comprises a complete set of the models made by Brill of Darmstadt, for illustration in the higher branches of mathematics, as well as in mathematical physics and crystallography. The models are arranged in a series of cases in the mathematical reading-room in Observatory Hall.

GYMNASIUM AND ATHLETIC FIELD.

THE FAYERWEATHER GYMNASIUM is located on the north side of the rear campus, parallel with Wyllys Street. Its dimensions are 55 by 205 feet.

The basement contains a baseball cage, a large room for shower baths, a room adjacent for rubbing and drying, a large locker room, and toilet rooms. On the first floor is the main hall of the gymnasium, which is well equipped and affords ample room for every variety of gymnastic exercise. The

director's office and a dressing room for members of the Faculty are also on the first floor. Attached to the director's office is a private room for the college physician, which is used for consultation and examination. Special attention has been paid to ventilation, drainage, and lighting, and the building is believed to contain the best features of a modern gymnasium.

An addition to the main building, completed in January, 1914, contains a swimming pool measuring sixty by thirty feet. The pool is lined with white ceramic tiles, with lanes in the bottom marked in blue, and is equipped with a life-rail and gutter, with markings showing depth and distances. The walls are of water-proof concrete painted brown, and the walk around the pool is of white tiles. The pool is nine and a half feet deep at the east end, and four feet deep at the west end. There is a gallery at the west end, entered from the main floor of the gymnasium. The pool is lighted by large windows at the east end, and by windows on the sides. Artificial lighting is furnished by a system of reflected light. Provision is made for a system of refiltering, and the pool is in every way sanitary. Above the pool are two excellent hand-ball and squash courts. A 12-lap running track, with a 45-yard straightaway," encircles the whole of the second floor.

Exercise in the gymnasium and on the athletic field is required of the Freshman class three hours a week for the year, and of the Sophomore class in the gymnasium three hours a week from Thanksgiving until the end of the winter term. Elective work in the gymnasium is offered to the Junior and Senior classes. A well developed system of intramural sports affords opportunities for all to engage in competitive games.

THE ANDRUS FIELD lies in the rear of the main line of college buildings, just south of the gymnasium. A quartermile cinder track, with a "straightaway" of 100 yards, encircles one portion of the field, within which ample room is afforded for baseball and field and track athletics. Football is played in another part of the field which has recently been improved for the purpose. The entire field, covering seven acres, provides sufficient space for class and university teams to practise at the same time. Its proximity to the college enables the whole student body to keep in touch with the

training in all branches of athletics, and affords the teams an opportunity to use the dressing-rooms and baths reserved for them in the gymnasium.

At the southern end of the field is a covered grand-stand, capable of seating four hundred persons. There are also movable bleachers seating about 2,000 spectators.

MUSEUM.

THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND ETHNOGRAPHY occupies the upper stories of the Orange Judd Hall of Natural Science. The collections are arranged with special reference to their educational use, and are freely accessible to students.

The nucleus of the departments of zoology and botany was formed by the Shurtleff collection, collected by Simeon Shurtleff, M. D., and purchased by the University in 1868.

The zoological department received in the years between 1872 and 1881 most important accessions in liberal donations and exchanges from the Smithsonian Institution, and in collections made by the curators on the coast of New England, through the facilities afforded by the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. Expeditions to Bermuda, Florida, and Newfoundland also added large and valuable collections. Valuable collections of insects were presented by Richard L. de Zeng in 1896, and by Mrs. E. K. Hubbard in 1898. In 1908 a fine collection of birds' nests, and a collection of alcoholic reptiles and amphibians, from Portland and Cromwell, was received from Mr. Charles H. Neff. At the death of Mr. Neff in 1911, his entire collection came as a legacy to the museum. The collection is rich in skins, mounted specimens, and eggs of the birds of Portland and vicinity. The zoölogical department includes about thirteen thousand species. The vertebrata of North America, the marine invertebrata of New England, and the mollusca in general, are especially well represented.

The herbarium comprises about five thousand species, representing quite fully the flora of New England, and including also many specimens from foreign localities. The large collection of Joseph Barratt, M. D., came into the possession of the university in 1879. The herbarium of Rev. Merrill

Hitchcock, B. A., including about 700 specimens, of which about 200 are from Connecticut, was presented to the museum in 1908.

The mineralogical department includes about three hundred and fifty species, and a much larger number of varieties. The Franckfort collection, purchased in 1858, contains many choice specimens, mostly from European localities. The minerals of the interesting region in which Middletown is situated are well represented by collections commenced by the labors of Professor Johnston (1835-1868), and largely increased in later years. Important accessions were obtained in 1899 by collecting trips to Nova Scotia and to Herkimer County, N. Y. The Sheldon collection, purchased in 1904, includes many beautiful and valuable specimens.

The geological department includes collections in lithology, physical geology, and paleontology. The lithological collection received in 1897 a valuable accession in the gift of a set of the educational series of rock specimens described in Bulletin No. 150 of the U. S. Geological Survey, presented by the Survey. A suite of Ward's casts of fossils, presented by Orange Judd, M. A., in 1871, serves an excellent purpose in the work of instruction, affording the student a representation of many remarkable forms of ancient life, actual specimens of which are rare or unique. A valuable collection of Tertiary fossils was received in 1887 from the Smithsonian Institution, in exchange for duplicate shells from the Shurtleff collection. The collections in paleontology have been very largely increased since 1893 by the work of the late curator, S. Ward Loper, M. A., in the vicinity of Middletown, at Valcour Island, Lake Champlain, in western Maryland, in the vicinity of Chattanooga, Tenn., Cañon City and Florissant, Col., and Fossil, Wyo., and in Nova Scotia. Especially important among these accessions are the collections of fossil fishes and plants from the Triassic shales of the Connecticut valley, and of Tertiary fishes and plants from Fossil, Wyo., and Tertiary plants and insects from Florissant, Col. A choice collection of European fossils, including a number of beautiful specimens from the lithographic limestone of Solenhofen, was received in 1895 from the University Museum of Munich, in exchange for American fossils. The private collection of Mr. Loper, purchased for the museum in