48 THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY.
Chemical Abstracts. Incomplete sets of the following magazines are the
_ being added to as rapidly as available funds will permit: Journal of 19%
the American Chemical Society, Zeitschrift fuer analytische Chemie, QED
Chemical News, Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, Journal mm
of Physical Chemistry, Metallurgical and Chemical Engineeering, elec
Bulletin de la Societe chimique (Paris). Inorganic chemistry is rep- toll
resented by such works as Meissan, Traite de Chimie Minerale, 5 S°€°
vols.; Dammer, Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie, 5 vols.; and _
. many others less pretentious; Beilstein, Handbuch der organischen Pl Y
Chemie, 4 vols. in nine; `Richter, Lexikon der Kohlenstoff-Verbindua If H'
gen, 5 vols.; Allen, Commercial Organic Analysis, 4 vols. in eight; HOO]
A and many other smaller works are for reference in the study of
organic chemistry. The principal books on analytical, physical and mw
technological chemistry and other branches of the subject are well and
_ represented. and
Civil Enginec·ring—The laboratory equipment consists of field in- _
struments, described under apparatus, materials laboratory, road, atm
cement and asphalt laboratories, also standard rattler for testing pav- mea
ing brick and apparatus for making tests of water and sewage. of U
The Cement Laboratory occupies a room in the Civil Engineering
building, and is provided with slate tables, testing machines, mould- EM
ing machines, standard steaming apparatus, copper drying apparatus, mg
scales and such other accessories as are needed in making complete Nat
· tests of cement and sand. Em
The department of Civil and Highway Engineering has a fully sui
equipped laboratory for testing crusher rock, sand, cement, brick, for
wood and block, stone block, asphalt, coal tar products, and all kinds IM
of road oils and dust preventives. This `laboratory is in operation WM
throughout the year and free tests will be made when materials are
sent prepaid by any county or state official. Wm
Entomology and Botany-—The laboratories of the Department Of mm
Entomology and Botany of the Experiment Station occupy rooms on
the seond floor of the building on the corner of South Limestone mic.
Street and Washington Avenue. They consist of a large general equi
laboratory devoted to both entomology and botany, in which are ill- and
cubators, an autoclave, a steam sterilizer, a hot air sterilizer, miscr0·
scopes and other apparatus required for the study of living things, Sm
both animals and plants. Adjoining this laboratory is a subdivision Ska,
devoted to photography, in which are cameras suited to making ell- mt
largements and lantern slides, and others constructed for use with