Laboratories, their planning and fittings . eoretical and practical work. Thebenches have gas and water, and the room contains twelve balances. Theadjoining physical laboratory, fitted like the preceding rooms, provides for aclass of 22, and off it is an optical room. Dark blinds are installed in all therooms except the large chemical laboratory. SECTION II. RECENT DESIGNS FOR ADVANCED WORK. Chemical Laboratory, Chiswick. A plan of this small building (Fig* 105) is shown, thanks to the courtesyof the Ministry of Munitions and the Official Receiver. Its interest lieschiefly in the fact that it
Laboratories, their planning and fittings . eoretical and practical work. Thebenches have gas and water, and the room contains twelve balances. Theadjoining physical laboratory, fitted like the preceding rooms, provides for aclass of 22, and off it is an optical room. Dark blinds are installed in all therooms except the large chemical laboratory. SECTION II. RECENT DESIGNS FOR ADVANCED WORK. Chemical Laboratory, Chiswick. A plan of this small building (Fig* 105) is shown, thanks to the courtesyof the Ministry of Munitions and the Official Receiver. Its interest lieschiefly in the fact that it was erected by Germans in 1914. Its exact purposeis not known, but it was evidently designed for research and investigationson a commercial scale. It has been used during the war in connection withoil products. The building consists of five small and one larger laboratory, RKCKNT DKSIGNS FOR ADVANCED WORK 163 a library, two offices, and a large machine room, attached to which is a smallboiler house. The fittings are of no special Fig. 105.—Research Laboratory, Chiswick, London. The Sir John Cass Institute, Aldgate, London. The chemical laboratory of this Institution possesses some interestingfeatures. Originally a gymnasium, it was recently converted into alaboratory under the personal directions of the Principal, Dr. Keane,who was kind enough to take the author over it and allow him toprepare the plan, Fig^. 106, which shows a very successful instance of theconversion of an existing building to the uses of science. Situated on atop floor, and top lighted with subsidiary side windows, the laboratory,74 ft. by 36 ft., is fitted with twelve working benches 8 ft. by 5 four students each, giving 48 places. Each place possesses twodrawers and cupboards, so that locker accommodation exists for 96students. The gangway spacing is ample, but is not found extravagantwhen the benches are fully occupied. In converting this room the difficultyof drainage—the existing f
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