Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1893-1894 [PAGE 21]

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BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.

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The first story of the west and central wings contains the laboratories of the department of electrical engineering, while the east wing is devoted to masonry, laboratories and instrument rooms of the department of civil engineering. The central wing of the second story contains the lecture room and the preparation rooms of the department of physics, and the remainder of the floor is used by the departments of civil and municipal engineering, for recitation and drawing rooms, cabinets and studies. The middle wing of the third story contains the laboratories of the department of physics, and the side wings the drawing rooms, lecture rooms, cabinets, and studies of the mechanical department. The center portion contains the library, the office, and the faculty parlor. The fourth story is devoted entirely to the department of architecture, and contains drawing and lecture rooms, cabinets, photo studio, and blue print laboratory. There are, in addition to these buildings, a veterinary hall, a small astronomical observatory, three dwellings, two large barns, and a green house. MUSEUMS AND 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 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, including male and female moose, elk, bison, deer, antelope, etc., and also several quadrumana, large carnivora and fur-bearing animals, numerous rodents, good representative marsupials, cetaceans, edentates, and monotremes. Fifty species of this class are represented by eighty specimens. The collection of mounted birds (about five hundred and fifty specimens of three hundred species) includes representatives of all the orders and families of North America, together with a number of characteristic tropical forms. Many of these specimens are excellent examples of artistic taxidermy. A series of several hundred unmounted skins is available for the practical study of species. The set of skeletons contains examples of all the orders of mammals and birds except the Proboscidea, together with typical representatives of the principle groups of reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.