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BUILDINGS.

The buildings devoted wholly or in part to the work of the Department
of Engineering are the following:

The Mechanical Laboratory is the main seat of the instruction
in technical studies. It is 180 by 70 feet and contains on the main
floor the Dean's office and the offices of the three other professors;
the main lecture room; the laboratory of electrical engineering; and
the drafting room for the First and Second Year students. Above
are a smaller drafting room for advanced students, and blue-print
and photographic rooms. Below on the ground floor are another
classroom, the reading-room, the testing laboratory, the wood shop,
the metal shop, apparatus and store rooms, the tool room, and the
students' lavatory.

The Power House is a single-story building 110 by 40 feet. In
addition to the university boiler plant and the electric lighting plant
this contains the foundry and the forge room. The boiler plant
consists of two horizontal return-tubular boilers, each of 140 horsepower.
The lighting plant consists of three electric generators directly
connected to high-speed engines, the respective capacities
being 25, 50, and 75 kilowatts. The whole plant is available for
purposes of instruction, study and experiment.

The Laboratory of General Chemistry, situated at the southern
end of West Range, is one of the older buildings recently remodelled
and fitted up for the work of instruction in undergraduate chemistry.
It is furnished with all the necessary apparatus and supplies, and is

comfortably heated and lighted. The engineering students, who are
taught in a separate section, have three hours in lecture each week
and six hours in the laboratory. The work is specially adapted to
their needs. The room used for work in Organic Chemistry is at
the northern end of West Range.

The Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry is 150 by 60 feet. It
is a single-story building, containing the lecture rooms, the laboratory
of analytical chemistry, the rooms for assaying, the balance
rooms, the offices and private laboratories of the professor of Industrial
and Analytical Chemistry, and a number of store rooms.
These contain not only the usual laboratory supplies, but an extensive
collection of specimens, illustrating very completely the processes
and products of industrial chemistry, and of especial interest
to engineering students.

The Geological Museum is 120 by 50 feet. It is a three-story
building. The main floor is devoted to the very extensive geological
collection of specimens, charts, relief maps, and so on. The gallery
above contains an equally good collection of minerals and numerous
models of typical crystallographic forms. The upper floor
contains the lecture rooms and the laboratories of Economic Geology.
In the basement are stored subsidiary collections and new
material accumulated in more recent geological surveys.

The Physical Laboratory faces the Mechanical Laboratory on
the opposite side of the quadrangle, and has almost the same proportions.
The main floor contains the lecture room, the professors'
offices, the laboratory of experimental physics, and the store room
for the very large collection of apparatus used in the lectures. On
the ground floor is the laboratory of theoretical electricity, the
storage battery room, a well-equipped shop for the repair and manufacture
of apparatus, and numerous smaller rooms for the work
of graduate students.