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THE young college graduate at the present time frequently finds himself confronted with the problem of installing a science laboratory in the school which he may have chosen as the scene of his first teaching experience. The laboratory in which he has been working has, it may be, developed through various stages of incompleteness into an institution capable of supplying his every want, whether in the form of apparatus of of other equipment. The student has, however, in most cases taken but little part in this gradual evolution, and in general feels greatly at a loss if compelled afterwards to work in some institution less elaborately equipped. Still more difficult is his task if called upon to equip a new laboratory, and perchance in a building which the architect has most satisfactorily designed for any purpose but that of a science laboratory. Much assistance can be gained by those placed in such a position from the excellent little book before us, which deals in a practical manner with the general design and equipment of an elementary, chemical, or physical laboratory. Dimensioned drawings are provided of suitable working benches and other fittings, and in addition, useful notes as to the best manner in which to apportion the space available.
The Planning and Fitting-up of Chemical and Physical Laboratories.
By T. H. Russell Pp. xx + 178. (London: B. T. Batsford, 1903.) Price. 7s. 6d. net.
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H., R. The Planning and Fitting-up of Chemical and Physical Laboratories . Nature 69, 341 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069341a0
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