LABORATORIES AND MUSEUMS. THE PHYSICAL LABORATORY. JOSHUA WALKER GORE, C.E., DIRECTOR and Professor of Physics. The Physical Laboratory occupies the eastern half of the main floor and almost the whole of the basement floor of the Alumni Building, amounting to about seven thousand square feet of floor space. The main floor is divided into a lecture room, an apparatus room, laboratory for students in the general course, Physics 1, and a laboratory for X-ray and photometric work. In the rooms of the basement are located the dynamos, motors, electrical laboratory, electric furnaces, storage battery, and the workshops for wood and metal. A special appropriation granted by the Legislature in 1903, has made it possible to equip the Physical Laboratory with standard types of electrical machines: dynamos, motors, transformers, meters, switchboard, storage battery, electric furnace and the accessories needed for practical instruction in electrical engineering. The facilities for the general teaching of Physics experimentally have likewise been increased. The electric light and central heating plants constitute valuable adjuncts to the laboratory. THE CHEMICAL LABORATORY. CHARLES BASKERVILLE, PH.D., DIRECTOR and Smith Professor of General and Industrial Chemistry. FRANCIS PRESTON VENABLE, PH.D., Professor of Theoretical Chemistry. ALVIN SAWYER WHEELER, PH.D., Associate Professor of Organic Chemis try. ROYALL OSCAR EUGENE DAVIS, PH.D., Instructor in Physical Chemistry. WILLIAMS MCKIM MARRIOTT, Assistant in Chemistry. LUTHER BYNUM LOCKHART, Assistant in Chemistry. WILLIAM ASBURY WHITAKER, JR., Assistant in Chemistry. WADE HAMPTON OLDHAM, Assistant in Chemistry. The building formerly known as Person Hall is now used as the Chemical Laboratory. It has been enlarged and forms a convenient and well-arranged system of laboratories for a limited number of workers. The rooms are eleven in number and contain about six thousand square feet of floor space. The pitch of the rooms is twenty feet, and they are lighted by numerous large windows, five feet by ten in size. There is a large lecture room with a seating capacity of one hundred and fifty. The sides and rear of the room have glass cases for the display of a handsome line of specimens, scientific and technical. The room is lighted by electricity and gas. In addition to its use as a lecture room, it is used as a place of meeting by the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society. Adjoining the lecture room is the private laboratory of the Director, and a smaller room for the storage of specimens and finer apparatus. The west wing of the laboratory is divided into laboratories for qualitative and quantitative analysis, furnishing desk-space for one hundred and twenty-two and twenty-eight students respectively. There is a small room, cut off from the other laboratories, in which dangerous or disagreeable experiments may be performed. The rear portion of the laboratory is almost a reproduction of the front in size and outline. It is divided into a balance room, containing nine modern balances and one assay balance, a library, a room with desk-space for five students in physical chemistry, an assay room provided with a set of gas furnaces, a laboratory for toxicological, physiological or other special work, and a store room. In the assay room is placed a large still, which provides an abundance of distilled water. A new The laboratories are supplied with water providing good suction. and modern gas machine, which supplies ample heat, has recently been installed. The average expenditure for apparatus amounts to fifteen hundred dollars annually. Recently apparatus for gas analysis and many lines of technical work have been purchased; also a new vacuum pump, electric furnace, Steinheil grating spectroscope and other apparatus for refined and accurate work. A room has been fitted up in the New West Building for refined spectroscopic work. Another room in the basement of Alumni Hall is provided with electric furnaces and the modern apparatus for demonstration of the application of electricity to chemical technology. THE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY AND MUSEUM. HENRY VAN PETERS WILSON, PH.D., DIRECTOR and Professor of Biology. WILLIAM CHAMBERS COKER, PH.D., Associate Professor of Botany. CLARENCE ALBERT SHORE, S.M., Instructor in Biology. GREEN RAMSEY BERKELEY, A.B., Assistant in Biology. The Biological Laboratory occupies the upper floor of the New East Building, and includes a lecture room, a main laboratory, two smaller laboratories for advanced students, a private workroom and a storeroom. The entire floor space is something over four thousand square feet. The equipment is especially adapted to the needs of modern microscopical work, and includes compound and dissecting microscopes, microtomes, parafin and hot air baths, incubator, camera lucidas, immersion lenses, etc. All rooms in the laboratory are supplied with running water. In addition to the sinks, there are several large aquarium tables in which living animals may be kept for breeding purposes, study of their habits, or class work. The museum collections are arranged in cases in the main laboratory. The marine fauna of the Atlantic coast is well represented. There are very serviceable collections of bird skins, bird eggs, insects and flowering plants. Students engaged in advanced work have access to microscopic preparations, illustrating the anatomy and development of sponges and corals, the histology of medusae, the development of teleosts and other objects of morphological interest. The departmental library includes many valuable books of reference, treatises and zoological journals, THE GEOLOGICAL LABORATORY AND MUSEUM. COLLIER COBB, A.M., DIRECTOR, and Professor of Geology and Mineralogy. WILLIAM WOOTEN EAGLES, Assistant in Geology. GEORGE ST. CLAIR MALLETT MACNIDER, Assistant in Geology. The Geological Laboratory occupies the first floor of the New East Building. In addition to a lecture room with a seating capacity of about ninety, there is a large laboratory supplied with working collections of minerals, rocks and fossils, and with photographs, maps and models illustrating geological structure. The laboratory is furnished with two petrographical microscopes, and with apparatus for the slicing and polishing of rocks. Microscopic slides have been made of most of the specimens from North Carolina; and the department has, also, sections of the typical European rocks. Sections of the rocks around Chapel Hill, and the igneous rocks of the Boston Basin, made by the late Hunter Lee Harris, of the class of 1889, were given to the geological department. A room for photographic work has recently been added. The University possesses a collection of more than two thousand specimens of typical rocks and minerals from various European localities, and of large specimens of building stones, coals and various products illustrating the economic geology of the State. These are arranged in an exhibition room of six hundred and fifty square feet of floor space. Here are kept also the sections taken with a diamond drill in the coal regions of Pennsylvania, in the region around King's Mountain, where the Summer School in Geology held its sessions, in the Dan River coal fields and in the Triassic Rocks at Durham, N. C. A complete set of the ores of the precious metals found along the line of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé Railroad is included in the collection. Valuable additions have been made to the collections of fossils also, affording increased opportunity for laboratory work in historical geology and palæontology. The collection illustrating economic geology has been largely increased. The department library, which occupies a room adjoining the exhibition room, is supplied with State and United States Reports, the papers of working geologists, the best works upon Geology, and scientific periodicals. THE UNIVERSITY ORGANIZATIONS. THE DIALECTIC AND PHILANTHROPIC LITERARY SOCIETIES. The Dialectic and Philanthropic Literary Societies were organized in 1795, the year of the opening of the University. Their existence has been inseparably linked with that of the University, and they have shown remarkable power in developing character as well as in training the intellect. They offer facilities for practice in debate, oratory, declamation and essay writing; and their members become practically familiar with parliamentary law and usage. Each society owns a large, handsomely furnished hall, the walls of which are hung with oil portraits of illustrious members. Meetings are held by each society every Saturday evening during the College year, admission being confined to members. Public contests in debate between the two societies are conducted twice a year and, in addition to these, there is a system of intercollegiate debates. On Monday evening of Commencement week the Inter-society Banquet is held, after which each society has its annual reunion. On Tuesday evening preceding Commencement Day four representatives elected from the two societies have a public competition in debate, and a prize is awarded to the successful competitors. By immemorial custom, students from the eastern half of the State usually join the Philanthropic Society, while those from the western half join the Dialectic Society. Although membership in the societies is entirely optional, yet it is earnestly recommended by the Faculty as furnishing unusual opportunities not only for literary culture, but also for the development of self-control and the power to persuade and control others. |