. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. STUDIES ON MUSEUMS AND KINDRED INSTITUTIONS. 499 dark rooms with heliostut, i),s, etc., for tlie purpose of studying- the eti'ects of monochroniatic light upon living organisms, etc. In the third and fourth stories are laboratories for ph3^siological chemistr}', vivisection rooms, etc. In the institute special attention is given to the study of comparative physiology, and the completeness and excel- lence of its appointments for this
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. STUDIES ON MUSEUMS AND KINDRED INSTITUTIONS. 499 dark rooms with heliostut, i),s, etc., for tlie purpose of studying- the eti'ects of monochroniatic light upon living organisms, etc. In the third and fourth stories are laboratories for ph3^siological chemistr}', vivisection rooms, etc. In the institute special attention is given to the study of comparative physiology, and the completeness and excel- lence of its appointments for this purpose can not easily be surpassed. The Ilxdl Anatomical Lahoratory has four stories, and is 131 feet long and 55 feet wide. The studies here embrace human anatomy, histolog}, histog-enesis, microscopic anatom}^, embryologj', and espe- cially neurology and experimental psychology. In the ])asement is a cold-storage room, a cremator}', a bone room, etc. The first story is devoted to psychology % with a collection of instruments that cost. Fiti. 75.—llnivertiity of Chicago. Hull Physiological Laboratory. over $2,000, among which are instruments of Helmholtz, Du Bois- Reymond, Ludwig, Hering, Kviline, Ewald, Konig (I cite onl}' a few Germans), and many others, and to histology. There is also a photo- graphic workroom, etc. In the second story are other rooms for histolog}' and neurology, which is here especialh'^ cultivated. In the third story is a large lecture hall and dissecting rooms for human anatom}'. In the fourth story is a vivarium and laboratories for special research. YERKES ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY. The Yerkes Observ-atory is situated about 75 miles from Chicago on Geneva Lake, Wisconsin, and about 1\ miles from Williams Ba}', a little town on the lake. It was founded in 1894 by Charles T. Yerkes,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrat
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