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Caption: Course Catalog - 1899-1900
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I2S COLLEGE OF SCIENCE EQUIPMENT The department occupies three students' laboratories, an instructors' laboratory, a lecture room, two collection rooms, a store room, a dark room for photography, and a private office. Apparatus.—The laboratories contain individual desks for fifty-six students. Each desk 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 (575) ; thin sections of minerals and rocks (745) ; 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; Sydow-Habenicht's Hand Atlas; 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 maps; 600 topographic sheets and a large contour map of the United States from the U. S. G. S.; 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 45,000 specimens (seven hundred and forty-two of the types described in the reports of the Illinois geological survey are included) and 200 thin sections of corals and bryozoa. The collection of minerals contains 10,900 specimens, and
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