msroar AND EQUIPMENT. 45 _.
nmune general chemical work of the Station, including analysis of soils, lime- _
he act stones and other materials of interest in agriculture, as well as research _ n
»·story work. The laboratory is well supplied with the usual equipment for "
tainsa agricultural chemical analysis. Two other laboratories, covering, c
ighed; together, 900 square feet of space on the same floor, are devoted "
Jerim- entirely to chemical research relating to agriculture. The department
troom also has the use of a part of the Experiment Station conservatory and of Y
and a three rooms in the basement for store rooms and work rooms.
illoor In addition to the regular equipment for carrying on what may be
ripped designated as routine work in general and analytical chemistry, the
estiga- Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Science is supplied
so cold n with power machines for crushing and grinding coal and ores and for air
ix the pressure and vacuum work; electric combustion furnaces and large elec-
plant. tric muflie; physico-chemical apparatus; platinum ware; apparatus for
avery- testing lubricating and burning oils for viscosity and Hash point; appar-
imune stus according to Hempel, Orsat and others for the analysis of gases.
to five In the department library will be found complete sets of the following
periodicals: American Chemical Journal, Berichte der deutschen chemis-
rerted chen Gesellschaft, Journal of the Chemical Society (London), Journal of
This Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Chemical Abstracts. Incomplete
ms; s sets of the following magazines are being added to as rapidly as availa-
ipera- ble funds will permit: Journal of the American Chemical Society,
large Zeitschrift fuer analytische Chemie, Chemical News, Journal of the
or the Society of Chemical Industry, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Metallur-
gical and Chemical Engineering, Bulletin de la Societe chimique (Paris).
·n the Inorganic chemistry is represented by such words as Meissan, Traite de
I as s Chimie Minerale, 5 vols.; Dammer, Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie,
lating 5 vols.; and many others less pretentious; Beilstein, Handbuch der
zidual organischen Chemie, 4 vols. in nine; Richter, Lexikon der Kohlenstoff-
nent- Verbindungen, 5 vols.; Allen, Commercial Organic Analysis, 4 vols. in
;d not eight; and many other smaller works are for reference in the study of
ating _ organic chemistry. The principal books on analytical, physical and .
uding technological chemistry and other branches of the subject are well
E this represented.
oven, Civil Engineering—The laboratory equipment consists of field instru- I
small ments, described under apparatus, materials laboratory, road, cement
rg, is and asphalt laboratories, also standard rattler for testing paving brick
and apparatus for making tests of water and sewage.
·ogen The Cement Laboratory occupies a room in the Civil Engineering
iuare building, and is provided with slate tables, testing machines, moulding
:> the machines, standard steaming apparatus, copper drying apparatus, scales