tories (A and B of the diagram) there are stands, each of which affords room for four students, and there being eleven stands in the laboratory for qualitative analysis, and six in the laboratory for quantitative analysis, there is room for sixty-eight students. The laboratory A is 80 by 30 feet, and the laboratory B is 48 by 30 feet. The stands are. 12 by 4 feet, hence each student has 6 feet of space, and as the aisles are 4 to 10 feet there is ample room, even when every place is occupied. The laboratories are well ventilated, as vapor and gases escape through flues in the hoods. Adjoining the laboratory for qualitative analysis is the room F, in which reagents and the apparatus for distilling water are kept. In the small room, G, are supplies for the stands. In the room, E, connected with the laboratory for quantitative analysis, are five balances of precision, and in the adjoining room, H, is the apparatus employed in quantitative work. The laboratory, C, for special work is connected with the lecture room, D. Between these rooms is a hood, as shown by the diagram. The lecture room has seating capacity for seventy-five students. Besides the rooms shown by the diagram there are in the basement two store rooms, a dark room for special work, and a room containing the assay and fusing furnaces. The laboratories as now furnished afford every means to facilitate work without loss of time, as nearly every reagent and piece of apparatus are supplied each student. In qualitative work the student has at his place nearly thirty reagents, and in his cupboards and drawers are flasks, beakers, tongs, evaporating dishes, test tubes, filter and retort stands, filter and test papers, etc. Each place is supplied with gas and air under pressure, so the quality of the flame may be changed as desired. At the end of each stand is a water supply and a basin connected with a drain pipe. In the laboratories each student works independently, as there are no classes.

Facilities are now afforded for laboratory practice in physiological chemistry, embracing the study of the constituents of muscular tissue, brain, bile, fæces, urine, etc. For this purpose Geissler's air pump, with receivers for evaporating in vacuum, Laurent's polariscope, for estimating sugar, peptone, and hemialbuminose, and a spectroscope for study. ing the spectra of hæmoglobin and its derivatives, have lately been imported.

THE PHYSICAL LABORATORY.

The physical laboratory is being rapidly supplied with the best instruments that can be obtained for the presentation of a course in modern experimental physics. Besides the usual apparatus for the illustration of the elementary principles of physics, as presented in the lectures, the laboratory is being provided with the best standards and instruments for precise measurements. These are intended for the use of students in the laboratory. By working with them, the student may not only quantitatively verify physical laws and truths, but, what

is of far greater value, may catch the spirit and methods of scientific investigation.

A partial list of apparatus may show some of the advantages the Indiana University is already able to offer. For the fundamental unit of time, there are provided a good clock with chronograph, a stop-watch, and a Verdin chronograph reading too of a second, with control fork by Koenig, of Paris. For length, a Société Genèvoise standard meter with reading microscope for subdivisions, Brown & Sharp scale and micrometre, spherometre reading to 1 millimetre, cathetometre, optical lever, and other standards of less accuracy are provided. Two fine balances, accurate to milligram, with weights, are provided for measurements of mass.

A Borda pendulum, thermometers, barometers, thermopile, Rowland grating, spectrometre, prisms, specific-gravity apparatus, vapor-density apparatus, sonometre, sirens, polariscope, reading telescopes and scales, and other instruments are provided for general work in measurements of various kinds. For magnetic and electrical measurements, the laboratory is well provided so far as light current work is concerned. A magnetometre, a standard tangent galvanometre, by Hartman & Brown, Carpentier's ammetre, low resistance astatic galvanometre for thermoelectric work, Elliott's high resistance astatic galvanometre with lamp and scale, a low resistance mirror galvanometre, tangent galvanometre with three coils of different resistance, Thomson's quadrant electrometre, resistance boxes, standard ohm, Wheatstone's bridge, box-form, by Elliott, divided metre bridge, one-third micro-farad, Key's induction coils, batteries of various forms, standard cells, and other instruments are provided for work in this line.

PSYCHOLOGICAL LABORATORY.

This laboratory is provided with a number of superior instruments. The Hipp chronoscope with full apparatus reading to Too of a second, the Verdin chronograph with central fork of the same accuracy, apparatus for applying graded stimuli of various sorts. Physiological psychology is pursued experimentally for verification of past and current results and in original investigation.

Statistics of the State Universities of the Northwest in 1888.*

*Since this table was prepared there has been great growth in the institutions mentioned. The value of the buildings and grounds of Indiana University has been increased to $200,000, its income to $60,000, students 390, full professors 24.

Estimated.

Statistics of the Universities of the Northwest in 1888-Continued

These figures have little value on account of the rapid growth in population and wealth since 1880, Includes preparatory school.