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New Chemical, Physiological,
and Pathological Laboratories.

No less than four excellent laboratories
have been provided for the opening session
in buildings long familiar in other
capacities. The houses at the northeast
end of West Range, formerly employed
by Mr. Henry Massie, and latterly by
Mrs. Isabel Perkinson, as dining halls,
have been remodeled inside and fitted
up with first-class apparatus. These
houses, in this new capacity, are to be
under the direction of Dr. Theodore
Hough. The building towards the Rotunda
has been transformed into a laboratory
for physiological chemistry; the part
flush with West Range into a laboratory
for experimental physiology. In the
basement of these buildings rooms have
been arranged for the experimental practice
of medicine upon animals. In one
apartment of the basement floor is the
furnace for heating the rooms on West
Range.

At the southwest end of the Range
equally commodious and convenient
quarters have been provided for the classes
of Prof. R. M. Bird, in the house formerly
occupied by Dr. A. H. Buckmaster,
latterly, by Prof. Bruce R. Payne,
and in the wing adjoining. The Buckmaster
house, practically without
change, is to be used for store-rooms,
offices, and small laboratories. The adjoining
wing, in which years ago Miss
Ross conducted a boarding house, has
been renovated and remodeled on the
interior and converted into two elegant
rooms, one above, one below. The basement
floor has been refitted as a laboratory
for undergraduate general chemistry;
the upper room has been turned into
an excellently equipped laboratory for
similar purposes, but may also be used
as a lecture room. This room, comprising
the two small and uninviting lecture
halls of recent memory, is now one of
the most convenient and attractive rooms
at the University. Dr. Bird's rooms will
be known as West Range Chemical Laboratory,
to distinguish them from those
of Dr. Mallet and Prof. Dunnington, in
the Chemical Laboratory a few rods to
the northwest.