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Caption: Course Catalog - 1892-1893
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22 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. Physics.—The cabinets of the physical laboratory contain a collection of apparatus from the most celebrated European and American makers, illustrating the subjects of mechanics, pneumatics, optics, and electricity. 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. 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 sire, 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 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 course of drawing and design of the University. MUSEUM OF INDUSTRIAL ARTS. A large room is devoted to a museum of practical art, the materials for which are constantly accumulating in the various scientific departments. Prominent among the agricultural specimens here exhibited is an excellent collection of the sub-species and varieties of Indian corn, including the best of their kinds; a considerable collection of small grains and of grasses; a collection of fibers in various1 states of manufacture, and a series of analyses of grains showing at a glance the elements and proportion of structure. The museum 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 Exposition at New Orleans, finds a permanent abode in this apartment.
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