Albion College - Albionian Yearbook (Albion, MI)

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YEAR BOOK 16 chase 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 Laboratory, where he may be constantly consulted by those having need of his assistance. PROVISIONS FOR THE STUDY OP PHYSICS The laboratory work in the department of Physics has been greatly strengthened during the past few years by the acquisi- tion of a considerable amount of modern physical apparatus. Among the instruments now a vailable for class illustration and laboratory work are the following: Vernier calipers, mi- crometer gauges, microscopes, telescopes, spherometers. Jolly ' s balance, Hawkes-Atwood ' s machine, Toepler-Voss self-charging electrical machine, diffraction grating, optical bench with ac- cessories, photometric apparatus, Geneva spectrometer, highly polished prisms, laboratory clock with sweep second hand, bend- ing apparatus with telephone attachment, Boyle ' s law appar- atus, Mohr ' s specific gravity balance, laboratory recorder for vibrations of tuning forks, simple pendulum apparatus with sounder for time work, pyknometers, moment of inertia appar- atus, Kundt ' s apparatus for velocity of sounds in metals, spe- cific heat apparatus, heat of vaporization apparatus, micrometer cathetometer, rheostats, commutators, electric motors, turning lathe with tools, torsional apparatus, linear expansion apparatus batteries of various kinds, Rhumkorff induction coil, resistance boxes, Weston voltmeters, Weston ammeters, wireless telegraph outfit, single valued and subdivided multiple condensers, di- rect reading D ' Arsonval galvanometer, tangent galvanometer, Rowland D ' Arsonval reflecting galvanometer with telescopes and scales, astatic galvanometer, earth inductor, ballistic galva- nometer, new Woulff polentiometer, Clark, Carhart-Clark, and Cadmium standard cells, ballistic pendulum, constant volume air themometer, air pump with accessories, barometers, Melde ' s apparatus, Young ' s modulus apparatus with optical lever at- tachment, dilatometers, vapor pressure apparatus, melting point and heat of fusion apparatus, standard thermometers, vol- tameters, surface tension apparatus, simple rigidity apparatus, thermopile, and other measuring instruments. PROVISIONS FOR THE STUDY OF CHEMISTRY. The department occupies the spacious McMillan Chemical Laboratory with ample space for its lecture rooms and labora-

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14 ALBION COLLEGE Laboratory erected as an addition to Robinson Hall. This ad- dition is 45 by 60 feet, three stories high, above the basement. It contains large laboratories for the classes in Zoology and Botany, accomodating respectively 60 and 40 students. Besides the large windows at the end of each table there are electric lights and gas arc lights that afford ample illumination for evenings or dark days. There are commodious lecture rooms adjoining each. Besides these laboratories there are smaller laboratories for more advanced classes, with the same lighting arrangements as in the larger laboratories, as described above. Store rooms and supply rooms, with a large room for a working Botanical Museum occupy the remainder of the space on the lower three floors. On the upper floor are rooms for Museum workshops, v ith a suite of three rooms which are fully equipped for photographic purposes. The Biological Department is well supplied with such ap- paratus as is needed for its work, including over sixty com- pound microscopes, rocking, sliding and rotary micrometers, in- cubator, aquaria, embedding apparatus and a collection of sev- eral thousand mounted slides. The Botanical Working Muse- um is especially designed to contribute to the work in Ecology. It already contains over fifteen hundred species in the herbar- ium nearly twelve hundred of which are representative of 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 pro- ducts. It is designed to make this collection as completely rep- resentative of local plant life and plant products as possible. The Zoological Lecture Room is so arranged as to be speed- ily 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 added as occasion de- mands. 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 connections 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 elementary and advanced study. It is constantly enriched through pur-

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16 ALBION COLLEGE tories and every convenience is provided for both the instructor and students pursuing general or special courses. There are eight separate working laboratories all fully sup- plied with apparatus and chemicals and equipped with gas, water, ventilation hoods, desks and lockers for each student. These are located on the first and second floors and the base- ment. The chemical lecture room on the second floor has seating for eighty students and is thoroughly furnished with a large demonstrating lecture table containing pneumatic cistern, oxy- gen 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 hav- ing a sink, hood, water faucets, gas, reagent bottles. Prom the adjacent room may be obtained all chemical apparatus required in their work. The advanced courses are conducted on the first floor and in the basement where are located laboratories for Quantitative, 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 Ce- ment 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 assays of ores and also crushing, pulverizing and sampling ap- paratus, tensile strength machines, specific gravity apparatus and all the regular equipment used in the practical handling of ce- ments and ores. A complete laboratory for Gas Analysis, with special refer- ence to its application in the manufacture of illuminating gas, has been installed. In the private laboratory of the instructor there is con- stantly carried on outside work in the examination of raw ma- terials for manufacturing purposes, such as clays, marls, peat, coal, gold and silver ores, iron and steel, sanitary and mineral waters.