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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1873
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44 apparatus; a Geissler's mercurial air pump $ a so-called Hoffman's apparatus for illustrating in the lecture room the composition of compound gases; a Soleil-Scheibier's saccharometer of the most recent and approved construction; an excellent set of areometers; a Hauy's goniometer 5 a camera with Boss' lenses} a Euhmkorff's coil 5 galvanic batteries of Grove and Bunsen; also a potassium dichromate battery, a galvanometer and a thermoelectric pile ; a spectroscope and a large binocular microscope; two additional chemical balances, peculiar in the shortness of their beams and remarkable for the accuracy and rapidity with which weighing can be executed with them. A batterer's carbon dioxide condenser, and an extensive set of metallurgical apparatus, consisting of models of furnaces, etc., have been ordered, and are expected at an early date. The library of the school has recently been enriched with complete sets of standard scientific works ; the Annalender Ghemie und Pharmacie 5 the Jahresbericht ueber die Fortschritte der Ohemie 5 Dingler's Polytechnic Journal; the Handuoerterbuch der Ohemie; Percy's Metallurgy ; Silliman's Journal. See table of contents for the list of Periodicals taken. SCHOOL OF NATUEAL HISTOEY. OBJECT OF THE SCHOOL. The aim of this school is to thoroughly educate and prepare Practical Geologists, Collectors and Curators of cabinets and museums of Natu ral History, and Superintendents of scientific explorations and surveys. INSTRUCTION. The instruction is given by lectures and text-books, and excursions are made under charge of the Professors. The Course of Studies will be found on page 63, course 8. Vacation Journals and Memoirs are required as in the College of Engineering. APPARATUS. Collections of Specimens and Illustrative Apparatus are being rapidly provided by purchase, manufacture and donation. In BOTANY the school has an extensive and valuable Herbarium, collected by the Powell expeditions, which has been largely increased from other sources; also a Lignarium exhibiting woods in section. It has a fine collection of enlarged papier-mache models of flowers and fruits, made by Dr. Auzoux, of Paris, and dissected to exhibit perfectly the most minute organs and tissues; among these are a pink, a papilio
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