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Caption: Course Catalog - 1897-1898
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DESCRIPTION OF DEPARTMENTS EQUIPMENT 115 The department occupies three students' laboratories, an instructors' laboratory, a lecture room, two collection rooms, a store room, a dark room for photography, and a private office. Apparatus.—The laboratories contain individual desks for forty-eight students, each of which is furnished with reagent bottles, Bunsen burners, and all the other apparatus now considered necessary to a complete outfit for blowpipe work in a first-class laboratory. They are also provided with a spectroscope; two specific gravity balances; an analytical balance; a trip scale; mortars (diamond, agate, wedgwood, and iron); two chemical hoods, each equipped with sink and a complete set of reagents and apparatus for qualitative analysis; a blast lamp and blower, and a muffle furnace; four contact goniometers and two Fuess reflecting goniometers; one Bausch & Lomb and three Fuess lithological microscopes; crystal models (550); thin sections of minerals and rocks (570); an apparatus for cutting and grinding thin sections of rocks, with a Jenney motor; apparatus for micro-chemical analysis; a self-registering barometer; an aneroid barometer and a telescopic hand level for topographic work. For the recitation room there is a set of Kiepert's physical maps; Ramsay's orographic map of the British Isles; Haart's Alps; Chauvanne's Asia; geological and soil maps of Illinois; a series of geological maps of the United States, representing land development during the successive periods; a set of charts illustrating orography, erosion, deposition of metals, etc.; a series of relief maps; a complete lantern outfit, with microscopic and solar attachment; four hundred lantern slides; an equipment for photography and the manufacture of lantern slides. Materials.—The collection of fossils comes principally from the paleozoic, but includes a representative series from the higher groups. It contains 43,400 specimens. Six hundred and fifty of the types described in the reports of
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