Albion College - Albionian Yearbook (Albion, MI)

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YEAR BOOK 1 7 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- charging electrical machine, diffraction grating, optical bench with accessories, photometric apparatus, Geneva spectrometer, highly polished prisms, laboratory clock with sweep second hand, bending apparatus with telephone attachment, Boyle ' s law apparatus, Mohr ' s specific gravity balance, laboratory recorder for vibrations of tuning forks, simple pendulum ap- paratus with sounder for time work, pyknometers, moment of inertia apparatus, Kundt ' s apparatus for velocity of sound in metals, specific heat apparatus, heat of vaporization appara- tus, micrometer cathetometer, rheostat, commutators, electric motors, turning lathes with tools, magnets, lenses, tor- sional apparatus, linear expansion apparatus, fountain in vacuum apparatus, Madgeburg hemispheres, batteries of vari- ous kinds, Rhumkorff induction coil, resistance boxes, Weston voltmeter, Weston ammeter, wireless telegraphy outfit, single valued and subdivided multiple condensers, direct reading D ' Arsonval galvanometer, tangent galvanometer, Rowland D ' Arsonville reflecting galvanometers with telescopes and scales, astatic galvanometer, earth inductor and other elec- trical measuring instruments, PROVISIONS FOR THE STUDY OF CHEMISTRY. The department occupies the spacious McMillan Chemical Laboratory with ample space for its lecture rooms and labo- ratories and every convenience is provided for both the in- structors and students pursuing general or special courses. There are eight separate working laboratories all fully supplied with apparatus and chemicals and equipped with gas, water, ventilating hoods, desks and lockers for each student. These are located on the first and second floors and the basement.

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16 ALBION COLLEGE pound microscopes, rocking and sliding microtomes, incu- bator, aquaria embedding apparatus and a collection of sev- eral thousand mounted slides. The Botanical Working Museum is especially designed to contribute to the work in Ecology. It already contains nearly nine hundred species in the herbarium, nearly all from this locality, and many of them represented in numerous specimens which show the plant in immature and winter condition, as well as in flower, etc. There is also a large number of specimens of seeds, woods, barks, fibers, medicinal and commercial products. It is designed to make this collection as completely representa- tive 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 have individual private lockers, each with its own combination lock, and water and gas connec- tions are liberally provided throughout. The supply of material for study and dissection is large and is ample in amount and range of species for both ele- mentary and advanced study. It is constantly enriched through purchase as well as by the collections made by the department and friends of the College. The study and private laboratory of the professor in charge is on the first floor, adjacent to the Zoological Labo- ratory where he may be constantly consulted by those having need of his assistance. The department hereby acknowledges the generous gift, from Mr. Harvey N. Ott, of the class of ' 89, of a Spencer Lens Company ' s Rotary Microtome, complete, with all at- tachments. PROVISIONS FOR THE STUDY OF PHYSICS. The laboratory work in the department of Physics has

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18 ALBION COLLEGE The chemical lecture room on the second floor has seat- ing for eighty students and is thoroughly furnished with a large demonstration lecture table containing pneumatic cis- tern, oxygen tanks, exhaust, gas, water, sinks, battery with ventilating hood in rear. Each floor is provided with a capacious dispensing room where chemicals and apparatus are stored to be issued to the student as required. The General and Qualitative Chemical Laboratory on the second floor is equipped with ninety working tables, each having a sink hood, water faucets, gas, reagent bottles. From the adjacent dispensing room may be obtained all chemicals or apparatus required in their work. The advanced courses are conducted on the first floor and in the basement where is located laboratories for Quan- titative, Organic and Technical Chemistry. Every facility is afforded for thorough work. Attached to the laboratories on the second floor is a thoroughly equipped weighing room containing accurate bal- ances, specific gravity apparatus, etc. In the basement is located the Laboratory for Portland Cement and Assaying, providing all the necessary apparatus for the physical testing of cement and the assaying of ores. Here are crucible and muffle furnaces, both coal and gas, for the fire assay of ores and also crushing, pulverizing and sampling apparatus, tensile strength machines, specific grav- ity apparatus and all the regular equipment used in the prac- tical handling of cements and ores. A complete laboratory for Gas Analysis, with special reference to its application in the manufacture of illuminat- ing gas, has been installed. In the private laboratory of the instructor there is con- stantly carried on outside work in the examination of raw materials for manufacturing purposes, such as clays, marls, peat, coal, gold and silver ores, iron and steel, sanitary and mineral waters.