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��SCIENCE.
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��I itlnstrale the iiiost important appUca- of chemistry lo the nrls. The Bret two ciasaes are already well represeuted, and a fair beginniug lias been made on the third.
���tvemely con^eiiieiil and pnicliiail. The flues draw in the right direction : the desks are large enough, moitj space being allowed each indi- vidual than in any laboratory known to the writer ; the light ia good ; the water and gaa supplies are ample : in short, uo serious complaint has been made against the working of any essenljal feature, though a large number of stu- dents have been constantly engaged in it during the year. It is believed that in its present condition it affords facilities for every kind of chemical worli. ' Conveniences ' have not been unduly multiplied, as the director's experience has led him to the Iwlief that it is possible to make a labora- tory so extremely convenient that it
��On the thirti floor, in addition
e cabinet, there are two lec-
— one for ciiemistry,
I tie other for minerali^y, —
ides two small laboratories for
ft examination of minerals, and
the preparation of specimens for
��There remains only the buse- nt, which is well lighted, and ' amounts to an additional It is, of course, largely ten up by storci-ooms and the heating-iippa-
- but there are. in addition, two conven-
t large rooms, which have been fitted up r fhrnace-operationa. In one of these are, long others, two smelting- furnaces of the extremely convenient form in use in the assay- laboratories connected with the U. S. mints. All the necessary conveniences for assaying ores have been secured, and it is intended that all students of pure chemistiy shall at least know what assaying is. It is not proposed to go into the teaching of applied chemistry in any narrow sense, but rather " to afibi'd the thoroughly- trained chemist an opportunity to familiarize himself with some of the more im- ^rtaiit applications of his science." " la conclusion, it should he stated distinctly , the laboratory not only woi'ka well on , like some of the chemical reactions ich fitudents are wont to originate, but, as fenatter of fact, it has been found to be es-
���is ditlicult to work in it. It may safely be as- serted that all really valuable forms of appa- ratus or arrangements for si>ecial operations have been taken into account, and embodied in the building.
��THE TILE-FISH.
In the spring of 1879 a Gloucester fishing- schooner, accidentally lishing on the Gntf- Stream slope south of New Kngland, found in abundance a fish which later proved to be new, and was described under the name of Lophola- tilus chamaelionticeps. but which the fishermen named tile-fish. The fish -com mission later found that it possessed excellent edible quali- ties ; and the prospect of thus adding a new fish to our east-coast food-flshes created a stir at the time. So bright were the prospects, that a fishing- vessel was even being fitted out
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