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Historical Group, the Modern Language Group, and the Department of Philosophy, the offices and classrooms of the Historical Group, and the offices of the President of the University. When all the space is devoted to its ultimate uses the building will provide shelf room for a little over one million volumes, and give accommodation to some 600 readers. The building is connected by bridges on the level of the great reading-room with the Haskell Oriental Museum and the Law Building, the upper floors of both these buildings being also devoted to library purposes. A building for the departments of the Classical Group is now in process of erection on the corner of Ellis Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street. It is hoped soon to erect a building for the Modern Language Group immediately adjoining the Harper Memorial Library on the west and connecting it with the Classical Building. Eventually there will also be on the east a building for the Historical and Philosophical groups, corresponding to those on the west for the Modern Language and Classical groups. All these buildings constitute one group with intercommunication, the upper floors being devoted to library purposes and the basements being occupied with stacks.

THE LABORATORIES

THE KENT CHEMICAL LABORATORY

JOHN ULRIC NEF, Director

The Chemical Laboratory, provided by the generosity of Mr. Sidney A. Kent, was opened January 1, 1894.

The arrangement of the rooms is as follows:

The basement contains a furnace-room, with a set of gas furnaces, with airblast of the most modern construction, for crucible work, muffle work, tubeheating, and other purposes; a laboratory for inorganic preparations, a room fitted with steam and other appliances for work on a large scale, a laboratory for radioactivity measurements, a mechanical workshop, and storage-rooms.

On the first floor are two large lecture-rooms, and a large lecture-hall seating three hundred persons, fitted for use as a chemical lecture-room, if desired. This floor also contains two rooms for physico-chemical work, one small preparation room, a room with northern exposure, especially fitted for use as a private research laboratory, and also apparatus and preparation rooms connected with the lecture-rooms.

On the second floor are two large laboratories intended for research and quantitative analysis; three private laboratories for the professors; balance, combustion, and air-furnace rooms; a balcony for out-of-door work; and the chemical library, which contains full sets of the most important journals, as well as the most important textbooks and other works relating to chemistry.

On the third floor are three large laboratories for general chemistry, elementary organic chemistry, and qualitative analysis, a small lecture-room, a preparation room, a room especially fitted for optical work, a balance-room, and three private laboratories. The most modern system of ventilation has been adopted, air of constant temperature being forced in by fans from below, and withdrawn by a fan above. The building is lighted throughout by electric

lights, and the laboratories are provided with electricity adapted to every kind of electro-chemical work.

The fullest opportunity will be given for doing research work. All possible aid will be afforded those who desire to avail themselves of the facilities of the laboratory.

THE RYERSON PHYSICAL LABORATORY

ALBERT ABRAHAM MICHELSON, Director

The Ryerson Physical Laboratory was built in 1893-94 and enlarged and remodeled in 1910-11. In the design and construction of the building no element of utility has been omitted, and every effort has been made to include all the desirable features of a first-class physical laboratory.

All the walls and floors are strong and heavy; the laboratories on the first floor are provided with piers of masonry, in addition to the heavy slate wallshelves which are found throughout the building. Every laboratory is provided with gas for light or fuel, electricity for light and power, water, compressed air, and vacuum pipes.

The basement and first floor are devoted to laboratories for research work, to constant-temperature rooms, ruling engine rooms, power-rooms, and the mechanician's room, which is fitted up with all the tools and appliances necessary in the construction and repair of physical apparatus. Four of these rooms are artificially dried and refrigerated.

On the second floor are found two large general laboratories for advanced undergraduate work, optical laboratories, a chemical laboratory, three departmental office rooms, three small lecture-rooms, and the large lecture-hall with its adjoining apparatus and preparation rooms.

The third floor is devoted to four large laboratories for the undergraduate work in general physics, which with the adjoining apparatus and preparation rooms occupy the east, west, and north portions of the building. The remaining portion of the floor is devoted to lecture-rooms used at present by the Department of Mathematics.

On the fourth floor are the mathematical library and study rooms. The roof above this floor is flat and suitable for observations in the open air.

Recent investigations have shown that the location of the Ryerson Laboratory is an exceedingly good one and that the outside disturbances, which are usually so annoying, are at a minimum.

THE HULL BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES

DIRECTORS

JOHN MERLE COULTER, Director of the Botanical Laboratory.

Director of the Zoological Laboratory.

Director of the Anatomical Laboratory.

Director of the Physiological Laboratory.

On December 14, 1895, Miss Helen Culver, of the city of Chicago, presented the University of Chicago with property valued at one million dollars. The purpose of the gift is indicated by the donor as follows: "The whole gift shall be devoted to the increase and spread of knowledge within the field of the biological sciences."

From this fund there have been erected, at the north end of the University grounds, four buildings to serve as laboratories for the Anatomical, Botanical, Physiological, and Zoological Sciences. Medical instruction is also given in the Anatomical, Physiological, and Zoological laboratories.

THE ZOÖLOGICAL LABORATORY

The Zoological Laboratory is 120 by 50 feet, and four stories high, exclusive of the basement. On the first floor are located the laboratories for elementary Zoology and research work in Pathology. The second floor contains one large laboratory for beginners in research, and a number of smaller laboratories for more advanced work. The third floor contains three large laboratories for Embryology and Genetics and a number of rooms for research. The fourth floor is devoted to the laboratories of Bacteriology, which are supplied with sterilizers, incubators, special microscopes, and other bacteriological apparatus, and are furnished with tables for microscopical work and for the usual laboratory manipulations. The basement contains a large room with glass-covered extension on the south side, designed for an aquarium. The best optical and other apparatus demanded by zoological work is provided. There are series of models and charts illustrating embryological and morphological subjects, and facilities for keeping land and aquatic animals under favorable conditions for study. A greenhouse for experimental work in breeding of insects and other invertebrates has recently been erected.

THE ANATOMICAL LABORATORY

The Anatomical Laboratory is 120 by 50 feet, and four stories high, exclusive of the basement and attic, and was constructed to provide for Anatomy, both gross and microscopic, including Neurology. The first floor is occupied by three large laboratories for microscopic work (Histology, Microscopic Anatomy, Neurology, and Pathology), a photographic room, and two laboratories for Experimental Pathology. On the second floor there are an additional room for general classwork in microscopic branches, a lecture-room, and a chemical laboratory. Here, too, are located the laboratories of the staff in Neurology and a laboratory for advanced work and original research in Neurology. On the third and fourth floors are situated the dissecting rooms for Human Anatomy, the private laboratories for instructors, a study-room, and two laboratories for research. The laboratories are well equipped for work in Gross and Microscopic Anatomy and in Pathology, and especial facilities are afforded for advanced work and original research.

THE PHYSIOLOGICAL LABORATORY

The Physiological Laboratory is 102 by 52 feet and four stories high, exclusive of the basement and attic. The basement contains an aquarium room, animal rooms, dark-room, combustion and centrifugal room, and storerooms. It is connected with the greenhouse of the laboratory. The first floor contains general laboratories for beginners, a shop, a storeroom, a lecture-room, and a photographic room. The second floor contains a large lecture-room with preparation room and storeroom, an optical room, two dark-rooms, and private laboratories. The third floor contains three laboratories for advanced workers

in Physiology, a laboratory for research in Physiological Chemistry and Pharmacology, a balance-room, a smaller room for work in Physiological Chemistry and Pharmacology, and one room for work in Experimental Therapeutics. The fourth floor contains two rooms with cages for animals and two operating rooms, and, in addition, two laboratories for work in Physiological Chemistry and Pharmacology. The laboratories are well equipped both for general instruction in Physiology, Physiological Chemistry, and Pharmacology, and for advanced and research work in these sciences.

THE BOTANICAL LABORATORY

The Botanical Laboratory is a building 102 by 52 feet, four stories high, with basement, and roof greenhouse. The first floor contains the general lecture-hall, a large general laboratory for elementary work, a smaller laboratory used for elementary work and also for Plant Pathology, offices, and a storeroom. The second floor contains two laboratories for work in Plant Morphology, seven private research-rooms, two offices, and a clubroom. The third floor is arranged for work in Morphology and Ecology, containing three laboratories, two offices, and seven private research-rooms. The fourth floor is used for Plant Physiology, with two general laboratories, photographic and physiological dark-rooms, workshop, two research-rooms, and a storeroom. The roof greenhouse is intended for experimental work in connection with the physiological laboratories. It also serves to furnish material for the morphological laboratories. A limited amount of ground for experimental work has been secured, and two greenhouses (3,200 square feet) have been erected.

THE MUSEUMS

THE WALKER MUSEUM

THOMAS CHROWDER CHAMBERLIN, Director.

FREDERICK STARR, Associate Director, Anthropology.

Stuart WELLER, Associate Director, Invertebrate Paleontology.

SAMUEL WENDELL WILLISTON, Associate Director, Vertebrate Paleontology.

The Walker Museum is located in a fireproof structure provided through the gift of Mr. George C. Walker. The collections are estimated to embrace over 1,000,000 specimens.

The general geological collection contains material illustrating structural phenomena and the modes of action of dynamic agencies; that of fossils includes a systematic series arranged on a stratigraphic basis, illustrating the successive faunas and floras; that of illustrative geographical material embraces a large series of models, maps, and photographs, illustrating the topography and geology of various countries; that of economic geology embraces a large series of ores and other mining products, representing the leading mining districts of the United States and of many foreign countries; that of mineralogy contains a systematic series of minerals arranged for the illustration of lectures and for public exhibition; that of petrography embraces igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks

in systematic series, together with special collections of igneous rocks from a number of localities in western America and Europe.

The anthropological collection contains a considerable quantity of ethnographic and archaeologic material. In addition to this the following collections are on deposit and furnish material for study: The Ryerson Collection in Mexican Archaeology, numbering more than 3,000 pieces. The Ryerson Collection from the Cliff-Dwellings and Cave-Houses of Utah; this is accompanied by a series of photographs which add much to its educational value. These two collections are deposited by Mr. Martin A. Ryerson. The Clement Collection from Japan, containing art work in lacquer and porcelain, and an interesting series of articles used in the curious Dolls' Festival. It is deposited by Professor E. W. Clement, of Tokyo, Japan. The material collected by Frederick Starr among the Ainu of Japan is on display temporarily.

The research and study collections of invertebrate fossils contain a large amount of choice material, especially from the Paleozoic horizons, and include a large number of type-specimens. The James Hall Collection, presented to the Museum by Mr. John D. Rockefeller, is rich in types and other specimens of the greatest value for study and investigation. Other important collections, which have become the property of the Museum, are the Gurley Collection, the James Collection, the Washburn Collection, the Krantz Collection, the Weller Collection, the Sampson Collection, the Faber Collection, the Haines Collection, the Tiffany Collection, the Bassler Collection of Bryozoa and Ostracoda, and the Van Horne Collection. The last of these is of especial interest because it consists largely of material from the local Niagaran formation of northeastern Illinois and southeastern Wisconsin.

The collections of vertebrate fossils are especially noteworthy for the extensive series of Permian amphibians and reptiles, perhaps the best in the world, including more than thirty-five genera, several of which are represented by complete, mounted skeletons. These collections include the original types from the Permian of Illinois and many of the types from the Permian of Texas. The collection of American Triassic vertebrates is unexcelled. From the Niobrara Cretaceous and the Benton Cretaceous there is a valuable series of birds, reptiles, and fishes; and less important collections are from the Lance Beds and White River Oligocene.

THE HASKELL ORIENTAL MUSEUM

JAMES HENRY BREASTED, Director

EDGAR JOHNSON GOODSPEED, Assistant Director

The Haskell Oriental Museum is a fireproof stone structure of three stories and basement, erected through the generosity of Mrs. Caroline E. Haskell as a memorial to her husband, Mr. Frederick Haskell.

The collections number over 10,000 objects and embrace the following:

THE BIBLICAL COLLECTION

This includes the usual reproductions, casts, maps, models, and photographs, illustrating Palestine and other Bible lands. As far as possible, collected and original matter illustrative of oriental life, ancient and modern, is being installed.

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