Albion College - Albionian Yearbook (Albion, MI)

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16 ALBION COLLEGE Museum is especially designed to contribute to the work in Oecology. It already contains nearly six hundred species in the herbarium, nearly all from this locality, and many of them represented by numerous specimens which show the plant in immature as well as winter condition, etc. There is also a large number of specimens of seeds, woods, barks, fibers, med- icinal and commercial products. It is designed to make this collection as completely representative of local plant life and plant products as possible. The Zoological Lecture Room is so arranged as to be speedily darkened and is provided with a stereopticon ; and while there is an ample supply of lantern slides on hand for purposes of instruction, others are being continually added as occasion demands. The photographic equipment of the laboratory is such as to highly facilitate the rapid increase of this collection. All the laboratories are liberally provided with individ- ual private lockers, each having its own combination lock. The supply of material for study and dissection is large and is ample in amount and range of species for both elemen- tary and advanced study. It is constantly enriched through purchase as well as by the collections made by the depart- ment and friends of the College. The study and private laboratory of the professor in charge is on the first floor, adjacent to the Zoological Labor- atory, where he may be constantly consulted by those hav- ing need of his assistance. PROVISIONS FOR THE STUDY OF PHYSICS. The laboratory work in the department of Physics has been greatly strengthened by the recent purchase of a con- siderable amount of well-selected modern physical apparatus. Among the instruments now available for class illustration and laboratory work are the following: Vernier calipers, micrometer gauges, microscope, telescopes, spherometer, Jolly ' s balance, Hawkes-Atwood ' s machine, Toepler-Voss self-

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YEAR BOOK 15 It is provided with circles, coarse and fine, driving clock, filar micrometer with field and side illumination and eye pieces giving range from a low-power comet-seeker to eight hundred diameters. The Transit Circle, by Fauth Co., is of a four- inch aperture and is provided with micrometers in right ascen- sion and declination, levels sensitive to one second of arc and vertical circles reading to single seconds by micrometer mi- croscopes. The Sidereal Clock and Chronograph are by the same makers. All of the instruments are in electrical con- nection. PROVISIONS FOR THE STUDY OF BIOLOGY. With the opening of the next year the Biological de- partment will occupy the new Biological Laboratory, erected as an addition to Robinson Hall. This addition will be 45 by 60 feet, and will be three stories high, above the base- ment. It will contain large laboratories for the classes in Zoology and Botany, accommodating respectively 60 and 40 students, with commodious lecture rooms adjoining each. Beside these laboratories, there will be smaller laboratories for more advanced classes. The main supply room, in the basement, is 13 by 31 feet, while above this and connecting with it by elevator, are smaller supply rooms for the classes in Zoology and Botany, 11 by 13 and 13 by 17 feet. Ad- joining the Botanical Laboratory will be a Botanical Working Museum, 20 by 23 feet. In the basement will be, beside the above, a meeting room for the Biological Club, 18 by 20 feet, and two rooms, one 20 by 22, the other 18 by 31, both well lighted, for other purposes. On the third floor will be the Museum Workroom and taxidermic workshop. The remain- der of this floor will be given to photographic purposes. The Biological Department is well supplied with such apparatus as is needed for its work, including over sixty compound microscopes, rocking and sliding microtomes, in- cubator, aquaria, embedding apparatus, and a collection of several thousand mounted slides. The Botanical Working

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YEAR BOOK 17 charging electrical machine, diffraction grating, optical bench with accessories, photometric apparatus, Geneva spec- trometer, highly polished prisms, laboratory clock with sweep second hand, bending apparatus with telephone attach- ment, Boyle ' s law apparatus, Mohr ' s specific gravity balance, laboratory recorder for vibrations of tuning forks, simple pen- dulum apparatus with sounder for time work, pykno meters, moment of inertia apparatus, Kundt ' s apparatus for velocity of sound in metals, specific heat apparatus, heat of vaporiza- tion apparatus, micrometer cathetometer, rheostat, commu- tators, electric keys, electric motor, turning lathe with tools, magnets, lenses, torsional apparatus, linear expansion appa- ratus, fountain in vacuum apparatus, Madgeburg hemispheres, batteries of various kinds, Rhumkorff induction coil, resist- ance boxes, Weston voltmeter, Weston ammeter, wireless telegraphy outfit, single valued and subdivided multiple con- densers, direct reading D ' Arsonval galvanometer, tangent gal- vanometer, Rowland D ' Arsonval reflecting galvanometers with telescopes and scales, astatic galvanometer, earth inductor and other electrical measuring instruments. PROVISIONS FOR THE STUDY OF CHEMISTRY. The Chemical Laboratory is well supplied with all neces- sary chemicals and apparatus required for the various lines of work. One hundred and forty students can be accommo- dated at one time with tables fully supplied with gas and water, Bunsen burners, condensers, beakers, flasks, test-tubes, platinum ware, etc. A large amount of pure chemicals is kept on hand, and additions are constantly being made. The weighing room contains five accurate balances. Nitrometers, burettes, graduates, pipettes, thermometers, hydrometers, etc., are supplied to each student as they are needed. A battery of sufficient current for ordinary electrolytic operations is now in use, and it is expected, by the beginning of the year, to take the current from the lighting system so as to command facilities for all classes of electrolytic work. The assaying laboratory is equipped with furnaces for the complete fire-