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Caption: Course Catalog - 1891-1892
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12 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. farm, orchards, forest plantation, arboretnm, ornamental grounds, and military parade grounds. The main University building, designed wholly for public uses, occupies three sides of a quadrangle, measuring 214 feet in front and 123 feet upon the wings. The library wing contains in spacious halls the museum of natural history, the library, the art gallery, and the museum of industrial art. The chapel wing contains the chapel, the physical laboratory and lecture room, and rooms occupied by the departments of architecture, and of art and design. In the main front are convenient class-rooms, and on the upper floor, elegant halls for literary societies. The building is warmed by steam. The mechanical building is of brick, 126 feet in length, and 88 feet in width. It contains a boiler-room, a machine shop furnished for practical use with a steam engine and lathes, and other machinery; pattern and finishing shop; testing laboratory; shops for carpentry and cabinet work, furnished with wood-working machinery. The blacksmith shop contains sixteen forges with anvils and tools, and a cupola for melting iron. The chemical building contains five well equipped laboratories, sufficient to accommodate 250 students. A military building, erected in 1889-90, 100 by 150 feet in one grand hall, gives ample space for company and battalion maneuvers and for large audiences upon special occasions. It is also used as a gymnasium. There are, in addition, a veterinary hall, a small astronomical observatory, three dwellings, two large barns, and a greenhouse. The new natural science building, under contract for $60,000, will be open for use in September, 1892. MUSEUMS AUD COLLECTIONS. The museum of zoology and geology occupies a hall 61 by 79 feet, with a gallery on three sides, and is completely furnished with wall, table, and alcove cases. It already contains interesting and important collections, equaled at few, if any, of the colleges of the West. They have been specially selected and prepared to illustrate the courses of study in the school of natural history, and to present a synoptical view of the zoology of the state. Zoology.—The mounted mammals comprise an unusually large and instructive collection of the ruminants of our country, includ-
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