University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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133 rooms, comprising lecture and class rooms, a capacious library, centrally located storerooms with facilities for dispensing on each floor, and ample laboratory accommodations. The dispensing is done by the Chemistry Store, which supplies chem- icals and chemical apparatus for the entire University. GEOLOGICAL LABORATORY The Department of Geolcgy is located in the Natural Science Building and the University Iuseums Building. Special labora- tories have been provided for the work in general geology, his- torical geology, paleontology, physiography, and economic and soil geology. The paleontological collections are arranged in the University Museums Building. Meteorological instruments are conveniently located on the roof of the Natural Science Building. AXCELL HALL AT NIGHT LANDSCAPE DESIGN NICHOLS ARBORETUM The Nichols Arboretum had its inception in a gift of land from Mr. Walter H. Nichols, B.S. (Chem.) ' 91, and Mrs. Esther B. Nichols, B.S. ' 94. The plan for its development includes three distinct features; the development of the natural beauty of the tract as a public park; a collection of woody plants native in Michigan; and a collection of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants that are used in landscape design. The plan is being developed in such a way that the student will be able to study in detail, not only the individual plants, both native and exotic, which are used in landscape practice, but also grouping and arrangement. The equipment of the Arboretum includes an adequate greenhouse and hearing plant. MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS LABORATORIES These laboratories are installed in two rooms on the third floor and two rooms in the basement of Angell Hall. The equipment includes practically all types of calculating, sorting, and tabulating machines, quadrature and integrating instruments, and harmonic analyzers. Adequate provision is made for accurate graphical work by a fine equipment of drawing tables and instruments. MlXERALOGICAL LABORATORY The mineralogical laboratory is well equipped with crystal models, natural crystals, and lecture and working collections of minerals,, rocks, and thin sectons. There is an excellent equip- ment of goniometers, polarization microscopes, and other crystallographic-optical instruments necessary for the thorough study of minerals. The blowpipe and chemical laboratories possess every facility for the qualitative and quantitative determination of minerals and rocks. PHYSICS LABORATORIES est Physics Building. The elementary work in physics is carried on in the West Physics Building. Besides the facilities for teaching, this laboratory houses a storage batten,-, a glass- blowing room, the department instrument ship, and a liquid-air plant. East Physics Building. Advanced work and research in physics have been removed to the first unit of the East Physics Building. Laboratories are provided for heat and high-temperature measurements, sound, light and applied optics, radioactivity, electrical measurements, and vacuum tubes, all supplied with adjacent apparatus, research, and consultation rooms. PsYCOLOGICAL LABORATORY The psycological laboratory in the Natural Science Building is an optics room, a series of large darkrooms that can be connected, a soundproof room and neighboring rooms for acoustics, and a room specially designed for a large maze, in addition to many other specially constructed accessories. The equipment includes sets of most of the standard apparatus in the different fields. ZOOLOGICAL LABORATORY The Department of Zoology, in the Natural Science Building, is equipped with general and special laboratories and other facilities for teaching and research. The Laboratory of Vertebrate Genetics. The laboratory of ertebrate Genetics occupies a modern two-story building on the northern part of the University property. Laboratory space and equipment are available for studies of the heredity, variation, and ecology of small mammals. Page 23 NATURAL SCIENCE AVDITORIUM

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ROMANCE LANGUAGE BUILDING DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY One of the largest and most popular departments in the University is the History Department. Here courses in all periods of history are offered, giving the student interested in concentra- tion, a chance to study intensely the particular field chosen. Students entering upon historical work begin with the general courses in their freshman year, take survey courses in their Sophomore year, and then in their Junior year begin their con- centration. ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES DEPARTMENT Almost all students in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts elect a foreign language course and most of those elected are in the field of Romance Languages. Courses are offered in French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, and Scandinavian languages. Advanced students may also elect courses in the literature of these languages. LIBRARIES The General Library of the University and its branches, and the Law Library, contain a total of 900,671 volumes, and over 12,748 maps. The William L. Clements Library of American History numbers about 25,000 volumes. LABORATORIES ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY The University Observatory, situated at the corner of East Ann and Observatory Streets, was founded in 1852 through contributions from citizens of Detroit. Many additions have since been made to the building and to the original equipment, which consisted of a refracting telescope of 12} inch aperture and a meridian circle of 6-inch aperture. The Lamont-Hussey Observatory of the University, at Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa, equipped with an excellent refracting telescope of 27-inch aperture, has been estab- lished by Mr. Lament for the discovery of double stars in the southern skies. The McMath-Hulbert Observatory at Lake Angelus, near Pontiac, Michigan, is also a branch of the University Observatory. This was built and equipped by Messrs. Robert R. McMath, Henry S. Hulbert, and Francis C. McMath, the Honorary Curators of the Observatories of the University, for research in the application of the motion picture camera to astronomical photography. BOTANICAL LABORATORIES The Botanical Laboratory occupies the southeast corner of the Natural Science Building. The installation includes a variety of laboratories, private research rooms, and adequate apparatus to deal with many of the problems of modern biology. Besides the usual provision for physiological work, there are refrigeration rooms, in which temperatures from zero degrees upward may be employed, and a greenhouse of 14,000 square feet, divided into several rooms for securing differ- ences of moisture, temperature, and illumination. This laboratory is provided with equipment for chemical biology, mycology, plant pathology, cytology, and morphology. Various tracts of University property within and on the borders of Ann Arbor, which contain meadows, a bog, a small lake, pond and a woodlot, are used for field work and ecology. The Botanical Gardens, consisting of 51 acres of level, fertile land, offer excellent opportunities for all phases of botanical instruction and research concerned with growing plants. The tract has been piped for water. The equipment includes at present seven greenhouses, ample work- rooms, and a two-story brick laboratory. An important feature of the greenhouse is the provision of several separate rooms for individual research, each with independent ventilation and automatic heat control. Facilities are provided for the propagation and cultivation of plants for experimental purposes. The University Herbarium is housed in the Museums Building. All groups of plants are well represented. Certain families of the flowering plants have been energetically built up and the collections of North American fungi, including lichens, are very extensive. The Herbarium contains over 250,000 specimens. CHEMICAL LABORATORY The Chemistry and Pharmacy Building is a modern, fire- proof, four-story brick structure. All classes in chemistry and pharmacy, except physiological chemistry (Medical School) and chemical engineering (College of Engineering), are conducted in this building. The total floor area of 104-500 square feet includes Page 22 STATISTICS LABORATORY

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COLLEGE OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND THE ARTS PROFESSORS H. F. ADAMS Prof, of Psychology R. G. ADAMS Director of the Wm. Clements Library A. S. AITON Prof, of History R. C. ANGELL Prof, of Sociology W. E. BACHMAN Assoc. Prof, of Chemistry E. F. BARKER Prof, of Physics H. H. BARTLETT Prof, of Botany J. R. BATES Assoc. Prof of Chemistry S. L. BIGELOW Prof of Chemistry W. E. BLAKE Assoc. Prof, of Greek A. E. BOAK Prof, of Ancient History CAMPBELL BONNER Prof, of Greek J. W. BRADSHAW Prof of Mathematics L. I. BREDVOLD Prof, of English A. W. BROMAGE Assoc. Prof, of Political Science E. S. BROWN Prof, of Political Science J. L. BHUMM Prff. of Journalism WM. BUTTS Prof. Emeritus of Mathematics Page 24