THE PHYSICAL. LABORATORY is situated in Observatory Hall. It consists of one large room on the upper floor, and two smaller rooms, provided with piers, on the ground floor. It can accommodate eight or ten students. It is supplied with apparatus for the illustration of most of the important principles of Physics, the following being some of the principal pieces used: Cathetometer, by Bamberg; balance, by Bunge; balance, by Becker Bros.; small goniometer, seven-inch circle, by Elliott Bros.; large goniometer, by Hilger, with 18-inch circle (graduated by Troughton & Simms); two of Rutherford's diffraction gratings; diffraction bench, by Duboscq; Jolly's air thermometer; Calorimeter, by Edelmann; most of the important pieces of Koenig's acoustic apparatus; apparatus for electrical measurements, mostly of Elliott Bros.' make, including Thompson's mirror galvanometer, Thomson's quadrant and portable electrometers, sine, tangent, and astatic galvanometers, reading telescope, conductivity apparatus, standard condenser, resistance boxes, Wheatstone's bridge, thermopiles, etc.

The Laboratory is connected with the observatory clocks, and has the use of the chronograph and spectroscopes belonging to the astronomical department.

MUSEUM.

The Museum of Natural History occupies the upper stories of the Orange Judd Hall of Natural Science. The collections are arranged with especial reference to educational purposes, and are freely accessi

ble 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 has received since 1872 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 have also added large and valuable collections. This 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 speci

mens of foreign localities. The large collection of Joseph Barratt, M. D., came into the possession of the University in 1879, and forms a most valuable accession.

The Mineralogical Department includes more than three hundred 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, and largely increased by accessions within the last few years.

The Geological Department includes collections in Lithology, Physical Geology, and Paleontology. 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.

The following is an approximate statement of the number of specimens in the various departments of the Museum:

The Museum is open to the public on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons.

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SCHOLARSHIPS.

TUITION SCHOLARSHIPS.

A number of Scholarships exempting the holders from the charge for Tuition have been established by the Trustees, and are available, at the discretion of the President, for the use of deserving students who need pecuniary assistance.

In addition to these are the following:

THE JOHN EVANS SCHOLARSHIP.

This Scholarship has been founded by Mrs. Ann Evans in memory of her husband. The income is about one hundred dollars, and is yearly to be given to that member of the Senior or Junior class who shall be named by the Board of Trustees, or by some authority to whom they may delegate the nomination. Only such as are preparing themselves for the ministry, and are already licentiates in the Methodist Episcopal Church, can be candidates for this Scholarship.

THE SQUIRE SCHOLARSHIP.

This Scholarship has been founded by Watson C. Squire, B. A. The income of it, amounting to one hundred and fifty dollars, will be awarded to that member of the Senior class who shall pass the best examination in Greek, provided he pursue a course of study in Middletown, under the direction of the Faculty, for at least one year after graduation.

THE SENEY SCHOLARSHIPS.

These have been established by George I. Seney, M. A. They are forty-eight in number, and are divided among the classes equally. They will be awarded on the basis of the merit-roll, under such conditions as the founder of the Scholarships has prescribed. Their precise value for any year will depend on the income of the Scholarship Fund. For the present year they will range from fifty to one hundred and fifty-five dollars. It is stipulated by the founder of the Scholarships that no student shall be considered a candidate for any one of them who was not in attendance upon college exercises throughout the year for which the Scholarship is awarded, nor shall any Scholarship,

though awarded, be paid to one who is absent from college during the year, or during any considerable part of the year, in which it is payable. No one who is regularly employed as a preacher or teacher shall, during the year in which he is so occupied, be considered a candidate for any of these Scholarships. Nor shall any student be considered as a candidate for them during any year in which he has been the subject of serious college discipline.

The Scholarships for the three lower classes will be awarded as soon after the beginning of each academic year as the record of standing for the previous year can be prepared; and will be paid in three installments: the first, immediately upon the assignment of the Scholarships; the second, at the beginning of the Winter Term; the third, at the beginning of the Spring Term.

The Senior Scholarships will be awarded two weeks before Commencement, and be paid at that time in one payment.

The corporation of the college assumes responsibility for the payment of the Scholarships only to the measure of the income of the Scholarship Fund.

The Seney Scholarships have been awarded, on the basis of the merit-roll of the year 1886-87, to the following persons:

Class of 1887.-Edward Everett Cornwall, Edward Summerfield Ninde, Edward Evans Pixley, Ralph Hayward Pomeroy, William Trafton Randall, Herbert Dwight Rockwell, Joseph Chapin Rockwell, James Madison Stevens, Albert Welcome Thayer, Jennie Van Vleck, Herbert Welch, Robert Louis Zink.

Class of 1888.-John Law Bridge, William Evans Bruner, William Morton Cassidy, Roland Wilkins Guss, Frederick Hobart Lawrence Hammond, Fred Alexander Hillery, Alice May Hotchkiss, Robert Seney Ingraham, Arthur Wilson James, Kate Bertha Mitchell, William Barnard Smith, Marcus White.

Class of 1889.—Dudley Chase Abbott, Henry Havens Chatfield, Fred Morgan Davenport, Bernard Marcus Davis, Willie Irving Ford, Mary Graham, Herbert Augustus Hill, George Frederick Kettell, Samuel Gail Landon, Harry Summerfield Noe, Arthur W. Partch, William Emory Smyser.

Class of 1890.-Francis Asbury Bagnall, Edward Arthur Bawden, Martha Josephine Beach, John Andrew Bergström, Clara Maria Coggshall, Lillie Belle Conn, Frederick Samuel Goodrich, John Morgan Harris, Walter Everard Morse, Hester Laurence Raymond, Edwin Sloan Tasker, Lewis Gardner Westgate.