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Caption: Course Catalog - 1899-1900
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34 UNIVERSITY OP ILLINOIS SPECIAL LABORATORIES FOR RESEARCH The chemical laboratory of the Agricultural Experiment Station occupies a part of the basement of Natural History Hall, and the laboratory for the physical and bacteriological examination of soils is situated in the basement of University Hall, but both will be quartered in the Agricultural Building when it is completed. The laboratory rooms of the State Laboratory of Natural History are in Natural History Hall. A Biological Station, equipped for field and experimental work in aquatic biology, is maintained on the Illinois River by the State Laboratory of Natural History. It has its separate staff, but is open to students of the University at all times, on application, and during the summer months to special students not connected with the University. A laboratory for sanitary water analysis has been equipped with all necessary appliances, and chemical investigation of the water supplies of the state is carried on. COLLECTIONS* AGRICULTURAL A large room in University Hall is devoted to the exhibition of the products of the industrial arts, especially of agriculture. Prominent among the agricultural specimens exhibited is an excellent collection of the sub-species and varieties of Indian corn. There is also a collection of small grains and of grasses; a collection of fibers in various states of manufacture, and a large collection illustrating the forestry of Illinois, Florida, and California. The exhibits made by the University at the Centennial and at the Cotton Exposition at New Orleans find a permanent abode here; large additions have also been made of materials received from the Columbian Exposition of 1893. * For a more detailed account of the collections in the different departments, see the appropriate subject under each College.
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