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Caption: Course Catalog - 1894-1895
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MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS. 19 various practical experiments and tests, and to prosecute original investigation in the line of their specialties. The mechanical laboratory occupies a large part of both floors of Machinery Hall, and each of its departments is equipped for practical work by students. There is a large machine shop with "hand and machine tools for all the required operations; a pattern shop, a blacksmith shop, a foundry, a boiler room, etc. The architectural workshops, in the same building with the mechanical laboratory, are fully equipped for bench and lathe work, and are supplied with all essential machine tools. Students become familiar with the tools and the work of the carpenter and cabinet maker, as well as with the draughting operations of the architect's office. The farms, fruit and forestry plantations, and gardens offer abundant illustrations of the work associated with the courses of instruction in agriculture and horticulture. The varied and carefully conducted operations of the Agricultural Experiment Station afford excellent aids to students in these departments. For its specific purposes there are used about one hundred and seventy acres. 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, 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. Botany.—The herbarium contains nearly all the species of flowering plants indigenous to Illinois, including a complete set of grasses and sedges.. Thefloraof North America is fairly well represented, and a considerable collection of foreign species has been made. A collection of fungi includes a very full set of those most injurious to other plants, causing rusts, smuts,moulds, etc. A collection of wood specimens from two hundred species of North American trees well illustrates the varieties of native wood. *For a more detailed account of the collections in the different departments, see the appropriate subject under each college.
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