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storing apparatus and the situation of the large lecture rooms. A commodious tier of stacks, similar to library slacks, is located in the center of the building and equipped with cases for storing apparatus. The apparatus shelves are 2 1-2 feet wide and have an estimated total length of 1200 feet. An elevator running through these stacks allows apparatus to be moved easily to any part of the building. The elevator is of the direct lift plunger type, thus seeming safety, and also doing away with rotating power machinery. It runs from the unpacking room in the basement to the attic floor, with landings on the main corridor of each floor, and also on all floors and mazzanine floors of the apparatus stacks Heavy rubber tired trucks are used in transferring apparatus by the elevator. The general lecture rooms are on the ground floor between the winprs of the building and are one and onehalf stories high. Light comes wholly from overhead, so that the rooms may be darkened by horizontal curtains operated by water power from the lecture room desk. Heating and ventilation are cared for by a systern of hot air operated by a ventilating fan,—this fan with its ducts being entirely separate from the fan and ducts for the rest of the building. Both lecture rooms are connected with the preparation room, and the latter in turn with the apparatus stacks. The lecture rooms are designed to hold 262 and 115 students, respectively. The Electrical Measurement Laboratory is completely equipped to care for work in electricity and magnetism. Direct and alternating currents of different ranges find outlets in this room. The equipment includes a large

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