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College of Natural

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The Basement is 12 feet high and contains: 1st. Furnace room for assaying and metallurgical operations. 2d. Mill room for storing and crushing ores. 3d. A large room for the manufacture of chemicals and pharmaceutical preparations. The first story is 14 feet high and contains : 1 st. A large lecture room capable of seating 200 persons. 2d. Qualitative laboratory, which will accommodate 152 students when fully completed. T h e number of desks now fitted up are one hundred and four. Each desk has an evaporating hood and a wash bowl with constant supply of water. There is a spectroscope table, and a blowpipe table for general use. 3d. Store room stocked with apparatus and chemicals. The second story is 14 feet high and is designed for the use of advanced students only. It has the following appartments : 1 st. A small lecture room with mineralogical cabinet, and set of furnace models for illustrating lectures on metallurgy. 2d. Laboratory for students in agricultural chemistry. 3d. Main laboratory for quantitative analysis. These two laboratories will accommodate 152 students when fitted up to their full capacity. Sixty-four desks are now finished. 4th. Store room with apparatus for all kinds of work in quantitative Analysis. The apparatus for general use includes a large platinum retort for the preparation of hydrofluoric a c i d ; a Dove's polarizer, with a complete suit of accompanying apparatus; a Geissler's mercurial air p u m p ; Hoffman's apparatus for illustrating the composition of compound gases; a Soliel-Scheibler's saccharimecer; an excellent set of areometers; a Hauy's goniometer; a camera with Ross' lenses; a Ruhmkorff's coil; galvanic batteries of Grove and Bunsen ; also a potassium dichromate battery, a galvanometer, a spectroscope and a large binocular microscope ; a Hartnack microscope; a gas combustion furnace for organic analysis, etc. 5th. Balance room, containing five chemical balances of the manufacture of Bunge, (Short Beam) Becker & Son, and Troemner. Three additional ones are ordered. 6th. Pharmacy. This room is furnished like a Drug Store with shelves, drawers, prescription desk, balance, graduates, etc. It contains a full set of drugs and pharmaceutical preparations made in the laboratory by students in Pharmacy. 7th. Private Laboratory for instructors. 8