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Caption: Course Catalog - 1897-1898
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LABORATORIES 27 rooms, and the administrative offices of the University. The basement contains well lighted rooms, which are at present used for various purposes. The book-stack is a rear wing to the building, separated from the rest of it by a fireproof wall. The stack will eventually contain five stories, and will accommodate 150,000 volumes. At present only three stories are fitted with shelving. There are, in addition to these buildings, a veterinary hall, four dwellings, three large barns and two greenhouses. LABORATORIES SCIENCE LABORATORIES* T h e botanical, geological, physiological, and zoological laboratories are in Natural History Hall. The chemical laboratory occupies the building of the same name, already described. The physical laboratory is in Engineering Hall. It is provided with piers, a constant temperature room and other conveniences for measurement work. 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 engineeringoccupiesrooms in Engineering Hall, and is provided with slate tables, testing machines, molding machines, sieves, etc., and sample barrels of hydraulic cement, varieties of sand, and other necessary materials. The electrical engineering laboratory is partly in Engineering Hall and partly in the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Laboratory. The mechanical laboratory occupies a part of the Wood *For a more detailed account of these laboratories, see under the appropriate College.
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