Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1893-1894 [PAGE 25]

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LABORATORIES.

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The library of the Agricultural Experiment Station has 3,800 volumes and 2,200 pamphlets. This is also accessible to students.

LABORATORIES. These essential facilities for modern educational work have been provided at the cost of large sums of money, and of much care to have them best suited for their various purposes. They are thoroughly well equipped. The chemical laboratories occupy a building 75 by 120 feet, four stories high, including basement and mansard. The basement is used for storage, and for work in mining and metallurgy; the first floor has a lecture room, a laboratory for quantitative work for one hundred and fifty students, and several subsidiary rooms; the second floor, its laboratories for qualitative analysis, private work, lecture room, store room, etc.; and on the uppermost floor is the laboratory of the Agricultural Experiment Station, and apartments for photography. Natural History Hall is occupied with the laboratories and lecture rooms for the work and instruction in botany, zoology, physiology, mineralogy, and geology; it also contains the office and equipments of the State Laboratory of Natural history, and of the State Entomologist, as well as the office and library of the Agricultural Experiment Station. There are six laboratory rooms on each of the main floors—sufficient altogether to accommodate two hundred students, besides offering abundant facilities for the private work of the instructors. The laboratory work in these departments constitutes a very large part of the instruction. The psychological laboratory in Natural History Hall is well provided with apparatus of many different kinds for use in experimental study and research, and with charts and models to aid in instruction. This laboratory is a new one, but has already attracted wide attention and has awakened special interest in the science to which it is devoted. The physical laboratory and lecture room are in University Hall, occupying large, well lighted and well arranged apartments. Still better rooms in the Engineering Hall will be occupied next year. Students have ample facilities for experimental work and opportunity to prosecute it under the guidance of the instructors. The electrical laboratory is also in University Hall. It has five rooms, each especially adapted to its distinct purpose, and equipped for work in experiment and research. The laboratory has its own power from a steam engine.