Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1894-1895 [PAGE 18]

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UNIVERSITY OP ILLINOIS.

The library of the Agricultural Experiment Station has 4,000 volumes and 2,000 pamphlets. This is also accessible to students. LABORATORIES. The chemical laboratories occupy a building 75 by 120 feet, four stories high, including the 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.; ana 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 alreadv attracted wide attention and has awakened special interest in the science to which it is devoted. The physics laboratories are in Engineering Hall. They are well lighted and well arranged, and are provided with all modern conveniences. The equipment is extensive and is suitable for experimental work of a high grade. The electrical engineering laboratories are partly in Engineering Hall and partly in University Hall. Each room is especially adapted to its distinct purpose. The equipment is very complete, and is well suited for instruction and research. The testing laboratory, located in Machinery Hall, gives opportunity to students of the College of Engineering to make