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ON October 25 the completed buildings of the applied science department of Sheffield Univer sity were opened by Lord Haldane. These buildings have the largest frontage in Sheffield, being 350 ft. long, the architecture being of the Hampton Court Palace type. The cost of the additions has been approximately 45,000l The central administrative block contains a very fine assembly-room, called the “Mappin Hall,” after the late Sir Frederick Thorpe Mappin, first chairman of the applied science committee of Sheffield University, and a handsome departmental library which will house books having reference to applied science and pure science data more immediately bearing upon this subject. There are staff common-rooms, and the metallurgical record office included in this central block, and the department of pure geology is also housed here.
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Applied Science in the University of Sheffield . Nature 92, 277–278 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/092277b0
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