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Caption: Course Catalog - 1895-1896
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30 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LABORATORIES SCIENCE LABORATORIES* The botanical, geological, physiological, and zoological laboratories are in Natural History Hall. There has been added to the botanical laboratory during the present year a glazed addition, 14 by 19 feet, two stories in height, to facilitate experiments upon living plants exposed to sunshine. The chemical laboratory, already described, is entirely devoted to chemistry. The physics laboratories are in Engineering Hall. They are well arranged, and provided with all modern conveniences. The psychological laboratory in Natural History Hall is well provided with apparatus of many different kinds for use in experimental study, research, and instruction. ENGINEERING LABORATORIES The cement laboratory of the department of civil engineering occupies two large rooms in Engineering Hall, and is provided with slate tables, testing machines, molding machines, sieves, etc., and twenty-four sample barrels of hydraulic cement, varieties of sand and other necessary materials. The electrical engineering laboratories are partly in Engineering Hall and partly in University Hall. The mechanical laboratory occupies a large part of both floors of Engineering Laboratory and each of its departments is equipped for practical work by students. The testing laboratory, located in Engineering Laboratory, gives opportunity to students of the College of Engineering to make various practical experiments and tests, and to prosecute original investigation in their specialties. SPECIAL LABORATORIES FOR RESEARCH The laboratory of the Agricultural Experiment Station occupies the top floor of the Chemical Laboratory. The laboratory rooms of the State Laboratory of Natural History are in Natural History Hall. A Biological Experiment Station has been established by the University on the Illinois River at Havana, Illinois, and equipped for field and experimental work in aquatic biology. It has its separate staff, but is open to students of the University* *For a more detailed account of these laboratories, see under the appropriate college.
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