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Caption: Course Catalog - 1889-1890
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MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS. 31 are afforded to students for performing experiments of precision by which the theories of physical science may be tested and original work may be done. A five-light Weston dynamo at the machine shop is connected with the physical and chemical laboratories for experimental purposes, and is supplemented by a valuable series of instruments for accurate electrical measurements. A series of standard weights and measures from the office of the Coast and Geodetic Survey of the United States may be consulted at the physical laboratory. The Mechanical Laboratory is provided with a steam engine, engine and hand lathes, planer, shapers, millingmachine, drill presses, and the requisite hand tools, benches, vises, anvils, etc., for pattern-shop, blacksmith shop, mould^" ing-room, and bench work. Its cabinets contain several hundred models of elements of mechanism and machines from Schroeder, Riggs,the Patent Office, and from the workshops of the University. Important additions to the equipment 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-gauges. 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 fullsize 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 four hundred pieces. It includes also hundreds of large autotypes, photographs, and fine engravings, representing many of the great masterpieces of painting of nearly
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