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THE energy and success of the Cambridge teachers of science are once more demonstrated by the proposal to build new laboratories, with a large lecture-room, for anatomy and physiology, and a museum and dissecting-room for human anatomy, on a scale commensurate with the importance of the medical and biological school. The present physiological laboratories, which ten years ago were a great advance upon the mere make-shift arrangements that had previously done duty, are now disagreeably overcrowded. At present, Prof. Foster's elementary class is attended by between 190 and 200 students; and the several advanced classes have from twenty to thirty-five students. In the laboratory there are now only places for ninety students of histology; but accommodation has been provided for about seventy more in a temporary building attached to the museum. Inasmuch as the students of the elementary class must all go through the histological course, lasting throughout three terms, it is evident that they can be accommodated only by relays, and that in order to accommodate the advanced students, who have no proper places of their own, much crowding must take place, whereas the advanced students' work-places ought not to be disturbed, as these students need opportunities for continuous work. For chemical physiology there are only eight places available, and there is one fairly large room for physical physiology; there is no adequate lecture-room.
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New Buildings at Cambridge for Physiology and Anatomy . Nature 39, 445–446 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039445a0
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