University of British Columbia - Totem Yearbook (Vancouver, British Columbia Canada)

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Research with radioactive material obtained from the Canadian Atomic Energy Project at Chalk River is being carried on in the hot labn of UBC's Chemistry Building. This and similar projects are typical of the fascinating but little-publicized experimental work done at UBC. The impressive pseudo-collegiate Gothic Chemistry Building contains about eighteen offices, 50 research labs, fifteen undergraduate labs and four lecture rooms, as well as the Chemical Engineering labs, which come under the Faculty of Applied Science. Half of the top floor is at present used by the Department of Bacteriology. Completed in 1922 it is one of the few permanent buildings on. the campus. Up until 1948 it was used jointly by Physics and Chemistry students. The mass spectrometer, one of the first of its kind in Western Canada, was supplied- to the university by the Defense Research Board for study of the oxidation of hydrocarbons used for rocket propellents. Special work is being done on the chemistry of wood and natural gums in order to find new uses. Photographs show scenes from the Bacteriology Lab, the Chemistry Balance Lab, and Chemistry 200.

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Dotted over the acres of open land in the south-eastern. sector of the campus are numerous small agriculture buildings. The spacious grounds afford students the opportunity for studying such subjects as Animal Husbandry, Poultry Husbandry, Horticulture and Agricultural Mechanics under working conditions. A number of new buildings have risen since the war. The agricultural engineering building contains the latest in farming machinery, which is supplied free by well known manufacturers of agricultural machinery. The agricultural pavilion was designed for the displaying of larger livestock, and contains meat refrigeration units. The head housev is a central green house for the distribution of pots, dirts, composts and other supplies. The poultry services building contains facilities for incubation, hatching, and killing. In addition to the university buildings are a number of laboratories built by the Dominion Government for cooperational research with the Department of Agriculture. These include the Dominion Laboratory of Plant Pathology, the Soil Survey Lab, the Entomology Insectery, and the Animal Pathology Lab. Shown in the photographs are livestock in the agricultural pavilion, farm machinery in the agricultural engineering building, the poultry services building, students garnering advice from a professor, and visitors on a tour of the pavilion. N f W4 ,,...W.- as .f ., ns ,:' - 4' , ff V' , . ,r wir xg. 1 ..- fi 1 W .7 . N - . .sf ' A13 ..-44 ' ,WW