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Caption: Course Catalog - 1898-1899
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DESCRIPTION OF DEPARTMENTS 125 a store room, a dark room for photography, and a private office. Apparatus.—The laboratories contain individual desks for forty-eight students, each of which is furnished with reagent bottles, Bunsen burners, and all the other apparatus now considered necessary to a complete outfit for blowpipe work in a first-class laboratory. They are also provided with a spectroscope, specific gravity and analytical balances, chemical hoods, a muffle furnace, contact and reflecting goniometers; lithological microscopes; crystal models (550) ; thin sections of minerals and rocks (570); an apparatus for cutting and grinding thin sections of rocks, with a Jenney motor; apparatus for micro-chemical analysis; a self-registering barometer; an aneroid barometer and a telescopic hand level for topographic work. For the recitation room there is a set of Kiepert's physical maps; Ramsay's orographic map of the British Isles; Haart's Alps; Chauvanne's Asia; geological and soil maps of Illinois; a series of geological maps of the United States, representing land development during the successive periods ; a set of charts illustrating orography, erosion, deposition of metals, etc., a set of physiographic models; a series of relief and contour maps; a complete lantern outfit, with microscopic and solar attachment; seven hundred lantern slides; an equipment for photography and the manufacture of lantern slides. Materials.—The collection of fossils comes principally from the paleozoic, but includes a representative series from the higher groups. It contains 43,400 specimens. Six hundred and fifty of the types described in the reports of the Illinois geological survey are included, and also 200 thin sections of corals and bryozoa. The collection of minerals contains 7,109 specimens, and that of rocks 2,912 specimens, among which is a large number of polished granites, marbles, and other ornamental building stones. There is also a collection of Illinois soils containing 76
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