Loyola University Maryland - Evergreen / Green and Gray Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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seats accommodating sixty-seven students. A Professor’s Room, Library, Dis- secting Room and Store Room have been arranged on this floor in connection with the Biology Department. In the basement a temporary Boiler and Fuel Room has been provided, the space for which will be used as an additional store room when the central heating plant is completed in the Engineering Building which will, in the scheme of things. West of the Science Building be similar and opposite the Science Building towards the north property line. A Combination Room has been provided for experimental work at high tempera- tures. Store rooms, work rooms, a General Locker room and large wash room are conveniently arranged with reference to the central stairway. Access to the boiler room is had from the southeast corner where a temporary roadway will be installed for the delivery of coal and supplies. In addition to the heating plant there has 7

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been placed on this floor to be as nearly central as possible for the use of this building. Two smaller class rooms have been placed towards the campus on the north side of this building. In connection with the Lecture Amphitheatre is an Apparatus Room and Microscope Room for the preparation of experiments to be demonstrated from the Instructor’s table in the centre of the room The third floor, which extends only over the central portion of the building, contains the Biological Laboratory and Lecture Room; the latter having stepped The Garden, Paralleling the Science Building 6

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been provided in the Boiler Room a hot water generator, distilled water apparatus, high pressure steam generator, compressed air and vacuum pumps which are piped to the various laboratories. The equipment for the laboratories and lecture rooms is the most modern and complete and will, when finished, be a model and standard for laboratory work and instruction. The students’ tables, wall counters, fume hoods, electric ovens, cases, cabinets, etc. have been designed, not only for the purpose intended, but also with the primary idea of the best utilization of the floor and wall spaces Entrance to the Garden Adjoining the Science Building of the respective rooms. The fume hoods, in which electric ovens, hot plates, water baths and drying ovens are contained, are mechanically ventilated through terra cotta pipes built into the walls; these are connected in the roof spaces and exhausted into the outside atmosphere through the ornamental cupola in the centre of the main roof. Natural ventilation has been provided in all laboratories and lecture rooms discharging to large ventilators on the roofs. The type of windows used throughout this building is such that ventilation can be had even in extreme weather without experiencing draughts. The building and equipment is the gift of Mr. George C. Jenkins, who has taken a great personal interest in all phases of the work. 8