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Caption: Course Catalog - 1888-1889
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28 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. nient of tools and machines have lately been made, including a Testing Machine of most approved design, having a capacity of 100,000 pounds, and a mercury column for accurate testing of water and steam-guages. Mining Engineering is illustrated by a valuable series of models, obtained from Freiburg, illustrating sections of mines, machinery for elevating and breaking ore, with furnaces and machinery for metallurgical processes. An extensive mining and metallurgical laboratory is in process of arrangement. A considerable portion of the machinery is already in working condition. ART GALLERY. The University Art Gallery was the gift of citizens of Champaign and Urbana. It occupies a beautiful hall, 61 by 79 feet, and the large display of Art objects has surprised and delighted all visitors. In sculpture it embraces thirteen full-size casts of celebrated statues, including the Laocoon group, the Venus of Milo, etc., forty statues of reduced size, and a large number of busts, ancient and modern, bas reliefs, etc., making over 400 pieces. It includes also hundreds of large autotypes, photographs, and fine engravings, representing many of the great masterpieces of painting of nearly all the modern schools. Also a gallery of historical portraits, mostly large French lithographs of peculiar fineness, copied from the great national portrait galleries of France. The value of this splendid collection, as a means of education, is shown in the work of the School of Drawing and Design of the University. MUSEUM OF INDUSTRIAL ARTS. A large room is devoted to the gathering of a museum of practical art, the materials for which are constantly accumulating in the various schools of science. It contains full lines of illustrations of the work of the shops ; models made at the University or purchased abroad ; drawings in all departments ; patent-office models, etc., samples of building materials, natural and artificial; a large collection illustrating the forestry of Illinois, Florida, and California ; with whatever may be secured that will teach or illustrate in this most important phase of University work : the elegant exhibit made by the University at the Centennial and Cotton Expo-
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