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exhibits installed in its many coaches, illustrating modern applications of science and good sense in agriculture, the ways and means of how to fight the diseases of the plants and animals, malaria, tuberculosis, &c.

The summer session of six weeks, beginning about the third week of June, is designed for teachers and other persons who are unable to attend the regular sessions. The Courses of instruction are mainly of University grade, and credit toward the university degrees is given to the attendants who comply with the requirements and pass the examinations. A marked feature of the summer sessions is the presence as lecturers of leading men from Eastern (U.S.) and European Universities.

The total endowment of the University of California at June, 30, 1910, was $4,311,995:34, the income earned by this endowment for the year 1908-1909, $211,238.99.

The San Francisco Institute of Art, the College of Medicine, the College of Dentistry, and the California College of Pharmacy, are supported by fees from students. The Hastings College of the Law has a separate fund.

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The Colleges of General Culture leading to the Degree of

The Colleges of Applied Science leading to the Degree of

A. B. in the College of Letters,
B. L. in the College of Social
Sciences,

B. S. in the College of Natural
Sciences;

B. S. in the College of Commerce,
in the College of Agriculture-
(1) in the general course, or (2)

in the technical courses,
in the College of Mechanics-
(1) in Mechanical Engineering,
or (2) in Electrical Engineer-
ing,

in the College of Mining, in the
College of Civil Engineering-
(1) in Rail-road Engineering, or
(2) in Sanitary Engineering,
or (3) in Irrigation Engi-
neering,

in the College of Chemistry. Students in architecture, although pursuing an established curriculum in part comparable with a college of applied science, are classified as students in letters, social sciences, or natural sciences.

In the Colleges of Mechanics, Mining, Civil Engineering, and Chemistry there are also courses of five years, leading also to the degree of Bachelor of Science, but providing a broader cultural and professional training.

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In the five-year course in mining, provision is made for specialisation either in (1) mining engineering, or (2) metallurgy or (3) Geology.

II. AT MOUNT HAMILTON, CAL. Lick Astronomical Department (Lick Observatory). For information regarding this department of the University, address the Recorder of the Faculties, University of California, Barkeley, Cal.

III. IN SAN FRANCISCO.

I. San Francisco Institute of Art.
Hastings College of the Law.

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3.

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College of Medicine, third and fourth years, first and second years being in Berkeley.

College of Dentistry.

California College of Pharmacy.

IV. IN LOS ANGELES, CAL.

College of Medicine (Los Angeles Department), third and fourth years.

DEPARTMENTS OF INSTRUCTION IN THE
COLLEGES AT BERKELEY.

Philosophy, Education, Jurisprudence, History, Political Science, Economics, Anthropology, Music, Semitic Languages, Oriental Languages (Chinese, Japanese), Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, English, Germanic Philology, German, Romanic Languages (French, Spanish), Slavic Languages, Mathematics, General Science, Physics, Astronomy, Geography, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Physiology, Hygiene, Palaeontology, Geology, Mineralogy, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Irrigation, Mining and Metallurgy, Drawing, Agriculture, Architecture, Horticulture and tomology, Military Science and Tactics, Physical Culture, Anatomy, Pathology.

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LIBRARY, MUSEUMS, AND LABORATORIES.

Library. The General Library, recently moved to the new colossal Charles F. Doe Library Building, contains over 300,000 volumes. It is constantly augmented by donations and exchange, and by large purchases of books with the income from the several funds of the Library.

The extensive Bancroft collection of manuscripts and books relating to Pacific coast history is located in California Hall, well arranged for use by historical students.

In the Doe Library there are about a dozen seminary rooms provided for advanced research work.

The various departments of instruction have separate collections of books, useful for ready reference and class-room work. The Library and Reading Room of the Department of Agriculture, situated in Agricultural Hall, receives the publications of the Experiment Stations of the United States and other countries, as well as pamphlets on agricultural subjects published by various Governments and Commissions. About one hundred and forty dailies, weeklies, and monthlies are regularly received.

The General Periodical Room is in the Doe Library, where the important dailies, weeklies, monthlies and quarterlies of the various languages of the world are received.

The Library is open from 8 A. M. to 10 P. M. daily, on Saturday, 9-12 A. M. to 7-10 P. M. and Sunday, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M.

Art Collections.--The Gallery of Fine Arts, containing three pieces of sculpture and seventy-five paintings, illustrative of the various periods and schools of art, is located in the Bacon Art Building. There are also numerous portraits, etchings, bronzes and a fine collection of reproductions from the Lower Gallery, Blanc's Peintres, Galerie des Peintres, Mantz, Krell, etc. The four teen hundred photographs of ancient and modern masterpieces of sculpture, presented by John S. Hittel, may be freely used in connection with the study of the plastic art. Besides these there is a vast collection of classical archæology comprising original pieces of Greek, Etruscan, and early Italian material. There are also reproductions of antique art, a cabinet of about three thousand ancient and modern coins and medals, sets of wall maps of ancient countries, many engravings, photographs, a unique series of facsimile copies after the portrait panels of Greek and Egyptian mummies, and a group of Bysantine eikones from Italy and Russia illustrating the long survival in Christian art of Greek methods of painting.

Museums. Anthropology. The archæological and ethnological collections from Egypt, Greece, Italy, Peru, and California are the Anthropological Building, established and supported as a research and museum

department by Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst. Owing to the increase of the collections, the principal portion has been removed to one of the university's buildings at the affiliated colleges in San Francisco. In these collections the arts and industries of all the ancient tribes of north and south America are represented, also of the inhabitants of British New Guinea, and of the Mohammedan, Christian and other peoples of the Philippine Islands. The Egyptian collections are among the most extensive in the museum, and are the result of systematic excavations by the Hearst Egyptian expedition for a number of years, and represent various periods, from the predynastic to the Coptic.

From Europe the museum contains a series of original and facsimile specimens illustrating palæolithic and neolithic man. The museum possesses also 1,500 phonograph cylinders recording religious and secular songs, instrumental music, prayers, charms, etc., mainly in the language of the California Indians.

Mathematical models.--The Department of Mathematics has a collection of about three hundred models of Mathematical curves and surfaces in plaster, thread, wire, wood, and celluloid, including the Brill collection and the Schroeder models of descriptive Geometry.

Botany. The botanical collections contain the following:

I. A Phaenerogamic Herbarium of over two hundred thousand sheets of mounted specimens and fully as much unmounted material representing plants from all parts of the world.

II. A Cryptogamic Herbarium, containing twenty-one thousand sheets, particularly illustrating the California species.

III. A Botanical Museum, containing a valuable collection of native woods, fibres, barks, cones, acorns, and fruits, besides a large number of drugs and an economic collection.

Zoology. The department of Zoology has an excellent collection of both invertebrates and vertebrates, of marine invertebrates of the groups of protozoa, cœlenterata, bryozoa, echinodermata, annelida, mollusca, crustacea, and tunicata. In en tomology the Agricultural Department possesses a collection of over two thousand

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well determined species of beetles and a large collection of lepidoptera. The collections are fairly complete for the purpose of general instruction in comparative anatomy.

The California museum of vertebrate Zoology, established and maintained by Miss Annie M. Alexander, gives the university the most complete collection of the West American land vertebrate fauna ever brought tegether for purpose of research.

Paleontology.-The collections of the Geological Survey, now the property of the university, contain either the types or representative specimens of almost all the California fossils.

Geology and Mineralogy.-There is an extensive suite of minerals and ores illustrating the chief phenomena of crystals and of economic deposits. There are, besides, are, besides, many crystallographic models, relief maps geologically colored, petrological specimens and many specimens illustrative of the more interesting features of Structural Geology.

Agriculture. A collection of more than two thousand specimens of the soils of the state fully illustrates the character of the several agricultural regions of California. A general collection of seeds is being formed, for the purpose of study as well as of a seedcontrol station. There is also a collection of viticultural and enological apparatus, and a library pertaining to these subjects.

Laboratories.-Almost all the following laboratories are well-equipped with original and up-to-date apparatus and instruments both for instruction and research.

The Psychological Laboratory occupies the entire second and third floors and part of the basement of the Philosophy Building, and contains a demonstration room for class instruction, which can be darkened when necessary. For research work, there is an optical room, a special dark, a silent room, an acoustical room and three other rooms which can be adapted. any special problems.

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The Physical Laboratory occupies the entire basement floors of South Hall and East Hall, with rooms set apart for photometry, for spectroscopic research, for dynamos and for a workshop. It offers good facilities to students who wish to pursue the study of physics beyond the limits of the prescribed courses, like electrical engineering, astro

physics, the practical uses of polarized light, and physical chemistry.

The Students' Observatory (Berkeley Astronomical Department).The equipment consists of an eight-inch reflector, a six-inch refractor with position micrometer, a fiveinch refractor, a six-inch photographic telescope and a five-inch photographic with a three-inch guiding telescope, all equatorially mounted with driving clocks; a threeinch Davidson combination transit and

zenith telescope, a two-inch altazimuth instrument, a surveyor's transit with solar attachment, spectroscopes, a Repsold measuring engine for measuring astronomical photographs. a Gaertner microscope, an electrochronograph, a Harkness spherometer, a leveltrier, six sextants, three chronometers, a Howard M. T. Clock, Clock, all necessary electric connections for recording time and determining longitude by the telegraphic method, and a set of meteorological instruments with which abservations are regularly recorded and forwarded to the United States Weather Bureau in Washington, D. C.

The Lick Observatory at Mt. Hamilton.For particular information about these two departments, address the Recorder of the Faculties, University of California, Berkeley, Cal.

The Chemical Laboratories are situated in the Chemistry Building, are large and commodious, well lighted and well ventilated, and offer excellent facilities for the study of Chemistry. They comprise the following: An Elementary Laboratory for beginners; a Qualitative and a Quantitative Laboratory; an Organic Laboratory for special and advanced studies in organic chemistry; a well-equipped laboratory for Physical Chemistry, a laboratory for Physiological Chemistry, and two large Research Laboratories. Special rooms are devoted to volumetric analysis, gas analysis, spectrum analysis and electrolysis. Ample facilities are provided for chemical analysis and for investigations in foods, drinking waters, mineral waters, poisons, etc.

A Botanical Garden covers about four acres of land, and furnishes abundant material for the classes in botany.

The Botanical Laboratories are well lighted and equipped with the necessary instruments and reagents for work in morphology,

histology, and physiology both of flowering and flowerless plants.

The Conservatory has five subdivisons arranged for different temperatures, according to the needs of different classes of exotics. A large collection of plants is kept for illustration in horticultural and botanical instruction.

The Zoological Laboratories occupy the greater part of the first floor and part of the second of East Hall, and are equipped for both elementary and advanced work in general morphology, microscopical anatomy, and embryology.

The Rudolph Spreckels Physiological Laboratory, erected by Mr. Rudolph Spreckels of San Francisco, provides facilities for about forty students. Provision is also made. for work in general physiology and experimental biology.

The Mineralogical Laboratory is provided with a large collection of minerals, and is well-equipped with necessary apparatus for research work in crystallography both as regards gonimetric work and the determination of physical constants.

The Petrographical Laboratory contains a large collection of rocks, and several thousand thin sections. These two laboratories are situated in the South Hall.

The Mechanical and Electrical Laboratories are situated in the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Building, and consist of steam engineering, hydraulic engineering and electrical engineering. The machine shops

have a floor area of 10,000 square feet and comprise the following:

1. The main machine room for metal working machines, bench and hand tools. 2. The woodworking, carpentry, and

pattern rooms.

3. The blacksmith room.

4.

A room for delicate metal work.

The laboratories have a total area of 12,000 sq. ft., of which 6,300 sq. feet consists of a covered court in which are installed the apparatus and equipment of the hydraulic laboratory.

The Mechanical Engineering Laboratories contain a number of experimental steam engines, gas engines, and an air compressor, including condensers, hot wells, etc.

In Electrical engineering, the dynamo laboratory contains a 100 H. P. Ball engine, a 50 H. P. Straightline engine, a 100 H. P.,

4000 volt, 3 phase, synchronous motor for constant speed, machines ranging in size from 100 K. W. down, direct direct current, constant potential and constant current types, and single and polyphase alternating current generators, and induction and syrichronous motors, many dynamo electrical machines constructed by students, dynamometers of various types, multiple plug switchboards, etc.

The hydraulic laboratory has recently been fully equipped with an artificial head of water for tests upon impulse wheels, two experimental water wheels of 50 H. P. capacity, a standpipe giving various heads up to 60 feet, and other laboratory require

ments.

Civil Engineering Laboratory is situated in the Civil Engineering Building, has an excellent assortment of models and specimens of trade products, of photographs and blue prints of existing European and American structures, of photographic lantern slides of engineering apparatus and structures, &c. For purposes of instruction both in the regular session in Berkeley and at the Summer School of surveying near Santa Cruz, the department has a supply of surveying, drawing, computing and other necessary instruments. The testing Laboratory is fitted with apparatus for determining the elasticity and resistance of the materials used in engineering construction and for the inspection of cements and manufactured products.

The Sanitary and Municipal Laboratories of the department afford facilities for work on problems relating to the determinations of chemical, bacteriological and physical properties of water, sewage, air, municipal refuse; have apparatus for special studies of rainfall rates and run-off in streams and sewers. Practical problems in hydraulics, water and sewage purification, municipal refuse disposal and ventilation either can be studied in the laboratories or solved elsewhere with the use of the laboratory equipment.

The Mining and Metallurgical Laboratories occupy the Hearst Memorial Mining Building which has four working floors. The first floor contains steam heating and ventilating appliances, and there is installed a 15 horsepower electrically driven air compressor and a 100-horsepower compound

duplex air compressor driven by a condensing steam engine. There are two large store rooms containing chemicals, crucibles, muffles, and other supplies used in the assaying laboratory, mining and metallurgical machinery and apparatus. On this floor there are also two locker rooms and lavatories with shower baths, the Mining Laboratory, the forge-rooms, metal and wood working shops and a central switchboard. The working rooms of the building are provided with compressed air, steam, water, gas and electricity. In the mining laboratory instruction is given given in methods of rock-drilling, in the use of diamond and artesian drill boring tools, together with some experimental work with the leading types of hoisting and ventilating machines.

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The memorial vestibule, the museum of mining and metallurgy; three large lecture rooms, a number of offices, studies, and reading rooms; rooms; the assaying laboratoy consisting of six large rooms fitted up to illustrate the use of assay furnaces; a suite of rooms devoted to work on an experimental scale in concentration, chlorination, and amalgamation of gold and silver ores, and to hyposulphate lixiviation and cyanide work; and a large smelting laboratory, are all on the second or main floor.

The Third Floor has six large rooms devoted to advanced work in metallurgy by senior mining students, and a similar suite of six rooms for research work.

The Fourth Floor is used as a large steel stack room containing a reference library of mining and metallurgy; and two suites of five rooms each, lighted from above, serve as draughting, designing, photographic and blue printing rooms.

In the rear end of the building is a tower 50 feet square, extending up through three stories, from second to the fourth, devoted to the dry crushing and sampling of ores, and contains all the necessary up-to-date machinery and appliances. To the left of this tower there is a large room extending also up through three stories, devoted to the wet crushing and amalgamating of gold, silver, copper, and lead ores.

The Laboratories of Agricultural Chemistry, Soil and Cereal Investigation, Viticulture, Zymology, Sugar House Control and offices of the Departments of Irrigation,

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Engineering and Agriculture, and of the Central Experimental Station are located in the Agriculture Building. A Special Laboratory is devoted to investigations in the physics and chemistry of soils. In these laboratories the chemical examination of soils, waters, foods, agricultural products, natural and commercial fertilizers, etc. sent by the farmers and others, is conducted; and the results thereof communicated to the parties interested or published in the form of bulletins, if they are of general interest.

The Fertilizer Control Laboratory, the State Pure Food Laboratories, the Entomological Laboratories, the Laboratories of Bacteriology and Veterinary Science, and Plant Pathological Laboratory occupy separate buildings designated by the names of the different subjects.

The University Dairy is located in the hill lands of the University at Berkeley, and consists of a dairy herd, barns, corrals, and a milk house with nice arrangements for sanitary milk handling.

The University farm comprises 780 acres of first class valley land under irrigation at Davis, Yale County, and is provided with buildings for instruction in practical agriculture and horticulture, including a commercial creamery, stock pavilion, horticultural building, dairy barn, cerial building, mechanical shops, and a dormitory building and dining hall. The farm is both

experiment and instructional purposes. Instruction is provided in short courses for adults, secondary instruction for youth, and practical instruction for University students.

The Experiment Station and Sub-Stations of the college of agriculture make provision for systematic experimentation in the culture of the various farm products, in the introduction and testing of new varieties, in the study of diseases of plants and animals and of the repression of animal and vegitable parasites. There are at present

five stations where the entire technical staff of the department takes part. The Central Station, from which all work is directed. and all the bulletins are issued, is at Berkeley.

The Southern California Pathological Laboratory is well-equipped for research and

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