Repository: UIHistories Project: Booklet - UI Growth and Enhancements (1895) [PAGE 4]

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THE ASTTH GNOMICAL OBSEItt v r o u v .

The work In astronomj has b n long hampered from lark of proper equip « neiit. The U Mature, however, has made an appropriation of $15,000.00 for a iil v . hiH ^ astronomical ol rvatory with the latest improvements. It Is hoped tha I" ,,. .bservatory will be ready for use during the fall term, it will contain an finch equatorial telescope with driving clock and with photographic and spe< nsti , pie attachments, an astronomical transit, a zenith telescope, a chrono•r\ iph. md the nec< arj clocks, chronometers, and othei small instruments, j'. me will be metal and f the latest pattern.

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I MORATORY OF VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY.

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itable pbysiol<>-r> ha heretofore been taught by lectures and text1), ethods supplemented by such experiments and observations ascouldbe ifferecni i' oul of doors. During the last term efforts have been made to introduce rllJNftru' ratory work in the subject and students have thus spent two-flfthsof Irti it Is now propo ed to add to the laboratory a glazed structure an< r, vh full set oi apparatus by which the activities of living plants can b ^ i perimentally and by which the effects of external conditions and upon such plants can be ascertained. It is expected that this w rk

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