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College of Natural

APPARATUS.

Science.

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The facilities offered for obtaining a practical knowledge of Chemistry are beleved to be unsurpassed by those of any other institution in the West. A large Laboratory Building, 75x120 feet, and four stories in height, has been erected, at an < xpense, including furniture, of $40,000. The basement contains a furnace-room for assaying and metallurgiCdl operations; a mill-room for Ftoring nnd crushing ores; and a large room for the manufacture of chemicals and pharmaceutical preparations, The first story contains a lecture-room capable of seating 200 per. sons, and a qualitative laboratory, which, when completed, will accommodate 152 students; one hundred and four desks are now fitted, each having an evaporating hood, gas, and w; ter. There are a spectroscope table, a blowpipe table for general use, and a store-room stocked with apparatus and chemicals. The second story, designed for the use of advanced students, has the following apartments: A lecture room with mineralogical cabinet, and furnace models for illustrating lectures on metallurgy; laboratory for students in agricultural chemistry; large laboratory for quantitative analysis, now containing sixty-four desks; a balance room, containing eight chemical balances of'the manufacture of Bunge (short bi>am), Becker & Son, Troemner; a pharmacy, furnished like a drug store, with shelves, drawers, prescription desk, balance, graduates etc., and containing a full set of drugs and pharmaceutical preparations made in the labo:atory by students in pharmacy;a private" laboratory for instructors; a gas analysis room, entirely cut off from the system of heating and ven: ilating to avoid undue fluctuations of temperature, furnished with a table specially constructed,and containing a full set of Bunsen's gasometric apparatus, an induction coil, batt"iy, mercury, etc.; and a store room with apparatus for all kinds of work in quantiative analysis. The apparatus for general use includes a large platinum retort for the preparation of hydrofluoric acid; a Geissler's mercurial air pump; Hoff mnn's apparatus for illustrating the composition of compound gases; a Sjliel-Seheiblei's saccharimeter; an excellent set of aeometers;aHauy's# goniometer;a camera with Ross' lenses; aRuhmkorffs coil;galvanic.batteriis of Grove and Bunsen and a potassium dichromate battery; a galvanometer; a spectroscope; a large binocular microscope; a Hartnack microscope; a gas combustion furnace for organic analysis, etc. On the mansard floor ample provision has been made for the study of Photography.