practice of dairying in the School of Agriculture, and the carrying on of experiments in dairying.

The School building contains the recitation rooms of the School of Agriculture.

The Dormitory contains accommodations for the boarding of the students of the School of Agriculture.

The Farm House contains rooms for a part of the students of the School of Agriculture.

The Barn contains rooms for manual training, farm machinery, silos, root cellars, etc.

The Green House is used for propagating plants to be used in the study of botany and horticulture, and for experimental work in these lines.

The Veterinary Hospital furnishes quarters for sick animals and rooms for clinics and lectures to the students in the School of Agriculture.

LIBRARIES.

The following is a list of the libraries easily accessible to University students:

The General Library of the University contains about thirty thousand bound volumes, beside many thousand volumes of pamphlets, magazines, reports, etc. About one hundred and twenty periodicals are received regularly by the library, not inclusive of technical magazines and newspapers in English and other languages.

The library is open to students and the public from 8 a. m. to 9 p. m. every day of the University year, except Sundays and legal holidays. Books may be borrowed for home reading, to be kept seventeen days. Reference works and other rare and costly volumes are not allowed to be taken from the library, but may be consulted in the reading room.

Beside the General Library of the University, there are several special libraries, consisting mainly of books of reference and current periodicals relating to technical subjects, in connection

with several of the Departments in Engineering and Botany, Animal Biology, Law and Medicine.

The Law Library contains those English and American reports most frequently cited, digests, dictionaries and a full and excellent selection of standard text books. Additions are being constantly made.

Further facilities are afforded the department by the generous action of the Bar Association of Minneapolis in granting to the students the free use of its extensive and ample library located in Temple Court. It contains all the American reports, state and national, and also the English text books and reports so necessary for the student in his study of fundamental principles of jurisprudence.

The State Library, containing everything which a student would have occasion to consult, is located in the Capitol, St. Paul, and is thus within easy reach of the students.

To all these library facilities must be added the Minneapolis Public Library, which is within easy reach of the University and is opened freely to the students of the University. This library contains over fifty thousand bound volumes; over fourteen hundred of the leading newspapers, magazines and periodicals of the world. A branch of this library is located at the University.

In the same building are to be found the Museum of the Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences; the Art School of the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts; the Art Gallery, containing many masterpieces of painting and a large number of casts from antique sculptures.

THE MUSEUMS.

The Museums of the University contain material obtained from various sources arranged with special reference to its use for illustration. Among the more notable collections are the following:

(a) In Geology and Mineralogy: the Kunz collection of minerals purchased of Mr. George F. Kunz; several suites of crystalline rocks secured from various sources; the Ward collection of casts, contributed in part by citizens of Minneapolis; collections of the crystalline rocks and economic products of Minnesota gathered by the Geological Survey of the State; a series of the paleozoic fossils of Minnesota and Wisconsin, gathered by the department of geology and mineralogy; a series of thin sections of typical rocks and minerals largely representing Minnesota localities; purchased material comprising crystals, economic minerals and the crystalline rocks.

(b) In Zoology: a United States Fish Commission collection; all the material collected by the State Zoölogist; a collection of

mounted Minnesota birds representing about one half of the species found in the State; a number of the mammals of the State, and a few from the more Western States; a collection of molluscan shells, corals and other foreign material obtained by purchase, exchange and presentation.

Recently Dr. Thos. S. Roberts, of Minneapolis, has presented his collection of several thousand bird skins to the University to form the nucleus of a collection of special interest to all those interested in the Ornithology of the Northwest. The fishes of the State are also well represented. There is a good collection of the leeches of Minnesota. Other groups of animals are more or less numerously represented, and are receiving annual additions from the Zoological Survey.

(c) In Botany: the general herbarium, numbering about 62,000 specimens, and comprising the series of plants collected by the State Botanist; an alcoholic collection of material for dissection; a collection of woods of Minnesota; a limited series of Carboniferous and Cretaceous fossil plants including the Lesquereaux collection from the Minnesota River localities.

(d) The Museum of Technology: A cabinet of specimens illustrating the products and processes of applied chemistry is being collected by the professor of chemistry, as opportunity offers. The collection embraces fuel, ores, furnace products, textile materials, both raw and manufactured; dye-woods and other materials used in dyeing; specimens illustrating the bleaching and printing of cotton, linen and woolen goods, earthenware, pottery, etc.

(e) The Classical Museum, a beginning of which has been made, will comprise all material that may illustrate classical geography, topography, chronology, mythology, archæology and art, such as plans of ancient cities, temples, battle-fields, camps, etc.; busts (original and plaster casts); coins and medals; specimens (original and plaster casts) of ancient sculpture, friezes, capitals, columns, vases, etc.; books and plates of costumes, military weapons, armor, household and agricultural affairs, and naval illustrations, etc.; architecture; ancient books and manuscripts; specimens of inscriptions and implements used in writing and in the arts.

LABORATORIES:

ANIMAL BIOLOGY.

This department occupies rooms in Pillsbury Hall as follows: On the upper floor of the north wing: general laboratory, 47x46 feet; laboratory library, 8x11 feet; photographic rooms, 20x8 feet; apparatus room, 21x9 feet; preparation room, 20x13 feet; lecture room, 35x32 feet; professor's office, 12x11 feet. In the basement;

The

store room, 14x24 feet, and an aquarium room, 13x20 feet. total floor space of these rooms is, in round numbers, 4,700 square feet.

The general laboratory has table space around the wall for forty-two students. Each "table" is provided with a double wall locker, and of these thirty-seven are equipped with microscopes and all other necessary apparatus. Besides this table space there are tables in the middle of the room for macroscopic and experimental work that will easily accommodate ten students. More secluded quarters in special rooms can be offered to three or four advanced students.

The department is equipped with thirty-one Zeiss microscopes, five Reichert microscopes, and one large Leitz microscope, dissecting microscopes, several camera lucidas, a large Zeiss micro-photographic outfit, various microscope accessories, four microtomes and accessories, Ziegler wax models, Auzoux papier mache models, skeletons from Ward and Fric, including the beautiful cartilaginous skeletons of Fric's series, several hundred of the Naples Zoological Station preparations, two Ludwig kymographs, three moist chambers, four Du Bois Reymond inductoriums, Kühnes artificial eye, a phakoscope and a number of other pieces of apparatus and models pertaining to the eye and the ear, a Ludwig's stromuhr, a Fick's spring manometer, a Thomson's astatic galvanometer, an improved spring myograph, chronographs, Kronecker's interrupter, and a number of other pieces of apparatus in addition to a full line of glassware, reagents and dissecting instruments.

The illustrative material, including charts, is being added to continually.

The department library, including the professor's series of periodicals and books, contains about 1,500 volumes. Among the complete sets of periodicals may be mentioned the Naples Mittheilungen, Zoologischer Anzeiger, Zoologischer Jahresbericht, Zoologische Jahrbucher, Anatomischer Anzeiger, Biologisches Centralblatt, Journal of Morphology, Archives de Biologie, Hoffman and Schwalbe's Jahresberichte, La Cellule, Archives Italiennes de Biologie, Archive für Anatomie und Entwickelungsgeschichte, Tablettes Zoologiques, Leuckart's Bibliotheca Zoölogica, Insect Life, Centralblatt für Bakteriologie and Parasitenkunde, and Zeitschrift fur Wissenschaftliche Mikroskopie.

BOTANY.

ROOMS. The Department of Botany occupies a suite of eight rooms in Pillsbury Hall, viz: (1) a lecture room 34 x 38 feet; (2) a herbarium and seminar room 33 x 18 feet; (3) a student's general laboratory 33 x 52 feet; (4) a physiological laboratory 33 x 18 feet;

(5) a special laboratory and office 34 x 21 feet; a dark room 8x8 feet, and a work room 21 x 34 feet, furnishing in all a floor space of 5,688 feet. In addition there is a plant house 20 x 40 feet.

FURNITURE. The furniture is antique oak throughout and especially designed for the rooms. The lecture room contains seats for seventy. The lecture desk is 18x3 feet with drawers, cupboards and pneumatic trough. Apparatus for displaying charts, models and lantern projections is provided. The herbarium and seminar room contains seventy-two oak plant cases, modeled somewhat after those in the British museum, together with large seminar tables, smaller work tables, book shelves, etc. The collections of plants number somewhat over 63,000. The general laboratory is furnished with slate-topped, iron-framed truncated microscope tables, a slate-topped chemical desk to accommodate twenty students, apparatus cases, wall lockers, aquaria, etc. The physiological laboratory contains truncated and wall slate-topped microscope tables, evaporating hood, reagent and apparatus cases and wall lockers. The special laboratory is provided with slate-topped wall tables, book shelves, periodical racks, desks, library tables and card catalogues. The work room is fitted with preparation apparatus, shelving, wall tables, pigeon hole cases and a safety vault. All the rooms but the museum are piped for gas and water.

SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT. The library contains about 1,500 volumes carefully selected in all lines of botanical investigation. The department receives regularly about sixty special periodicals and has full sets of several-as for example, Botanisches Zeitung, Pringsheim's Jahrbuch, Linnaea, Flora, Cohn's Beitrage, Annales Jardin Buitenzorg, Ann. Hort. Petropolitani, Annals of Botany, Revue Mycologique, Hedwigia, Grevillea, Revue Generale de Botanique, Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft and many others. A set of the Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique is accessible at the Public Library delivery station in the academic building. The herbarium is especially full in North American metaspermic plants and fungi. It subscribes for most of the leading exsiccati. The general laboratory is fitted with a full stock of best imported glassware, Leitz microscopes giving 50 to 600 diameters, 17 Beck microscopes giving from 70 to 480 diameters, four Bausch and Lomb microscopes giving from 50 to 600 diameters and five Leitz dissecting microscopes. The chemical desk is equipped with necessary glassware and reagents. The physiological laboratory contains glassware, Pfeffer's klinostat, Pfeffer's auxanometer, centrifugal wheels, batteries, mercury baths, Bonnier & Mangin's gasometer, heliostat, Kohl transpiration-apparat and other physiological apparatus, together with a full set of