Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1892 [PAGE 157]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. COLLEGE OF NATURAL SCIENCE. 3,350 SQUARE FEET AND $3,050.

COUESE IN NATUEAL HISTORY.

Students' laboratory equipment for botany, zoology, and lithology, seven tables, each 2x4i. Students' equipment for bacteriology, one table, 21x4. Instructor's laboratory equipment, zoology, one table, 4x4. Laboratory supplies, one case, 6x1. Two cases or recesses for charts and plates in zoology and geology, each 10x7. Students' equipment for laboratory entomology, two tables, each 4x8. Reference collection of insects, two cases, each 2x12. Set of photographs of students' laboratories; set of students' guides to laboratory work; set of reference books, laboratories of botany, zool'gy, and entomology; selection of students' thesis to be printed; two cases, each 3x6. Set of dissections by students, one case, 3x6. Set of microscope slides, illustrating students' work, with photographs of same, two table cases, each 4x8. Set of microscope and lantern slides of histology, one table-case, 2x4. Examples of students' and instructor's taxidermy. Examples of prepared specimens used to illustrate zoological course, one case, 6x8. Set of wax and glass models to illustrate zoological course, one case, 6x8. Selections from herbarium, one table-case, 2x8, with wall space above, 4ix8. Case for transparancies, 2x12. Human manikin, skeleton, etc., one case, 3x4. Case for rocks and slides of rock sections, 3x6. Selections from collections in natural history museum, 1,000 square feet. Total space for above exhibit, including passageway between cases, but not main aisles, 2,600 square feet. Estimated expense of preparation of exhibit, not including cases or transportation, $1,600.

COUESE IN CHEMISTEY.

Set of apparatus and reagents illustrating the first year's work of the student in general experimental chemistry and quantitative analysis. Desk for quantitative analytical work showing methods for precise measurements of weight and volume and including complete set of apparatus and reagents used in the work. Desk with complete outfits as used by the student in conducting the work of organic analysis and organic synthesis. Table fittted up for gas analysis, showing both eudiometric and absorption methods. One sample outfit, as used in assaying ores, illustrating both dry and wet processes, and also electrolytic separations and depositions of the metals. Table with apparatus used in lecture room demonstrations and including facilities for investigations in thermo-chemistry. Printing and mounting of reports, plates, etc., and preparation of photographs of laboratories, showing also internal arrangements.