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��as the new [jiborfilocy is the result or a great deal of thought, it ia believed that a lirief description of it would be of interest and value to the readers of Science.
The laboratory adjoiua the biological labo- ratory lately described in these pngea. A space of forty feet in widtli separates the two build- ings, SQCuring ample light for both. The north
��city, and will not be occupied by buildings. Thus from all four directions the laboratory is well lighted, and there is practically no danger that the light will l)e interfered with.
Entering from the street, we find ourselves in the corridor of the first floor. On the left is the gaa-aiialysia room, so situated that Uie direct light of the sun cannot enter it. It ia
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��end presents a frontage of fitly-five feet on the Street. A view of the street end is given in fig. 1. It extends back fVom the street about one hundred feet, the back part being eleven feet narrower than the front. It is built of the finest pressed bricks, and ornamented with a bluish sandstone, and presents a handsome, substantial appearance. On the east is one of the university buildings, containing the general library. The south end receives light unob- structedly, the nearest building being some- what more than one hundred feet distant. The intervening space is the projjerty of the
��fulh equipped for all kmds of auahtical nork with gases The apparatus of Bunsen, and the more rapid though leas accurate apparatus of Hempel, are aiwa\fl readi foi use The floor the joints of which are laid in white lead, IS made of carcfiillj selected strips, and thor onghh oiled and waxed 1-urther it slants shghth from all points towaids one lorner of the room where Uieie is a bo\. at a lowci level, contamiug a bottle arranged ao aa to catch anj mercurj that maj be spdied. Next on the left there is the photometric room. The walls of this room are black, and the windows are pro-
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