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FOUR important additions to the scientific labora tories at Cambridge will be available for public inspection on October 22, the occasion of H.M. the King's visit to open the new University Library. All, however, will have been in use since the com mencement of the Michaelmas term, so that there will be no ceremony. These buildings, in so far as they are concerned with research, are paid for under a generous scheme agreed to with the Rockefeller Trustees, but, in addition, the University has built new teaching laboratories for the Zoological Depart ment, the two top floors and part of the basement of its new school representing the Rockefeller contri bution. The new wing for physiology is a building about 70 ft. by 50 ft. and 60 ft. high with five floors, of which the lowest is a theatre to hold 280 students. The first floor is devoted to pharmacology, and the second to chemical aspects of physiology, while the top floors represent advanced teaching and research; this wing gives the Depart ment a total accommodation for more than forty research workers. Botany has received a 60-ft. extension of its previous building. The addition comprises an advanced lecture room and library extension on the ground floor. Half of the first floor is devoted to palseobotany, while the remainder of this floor and the second floor form a Sub-Department of Mycology, the top floor falling to advanced physio logy. Agriculture has a new building largely devoted to offices, etc., but the Rockefeller scheme here is invaluable in the assistance given to research in animal physiology, in soil research and in statistics, among other subjects. Zoology retains its old Museum wing unaltered, but otherwise has an entirely new building with novel features that are likely to cause it to be most extensively visited on October 22. Rooms have been assigned in it to fifty-seven workers engaged in research work.
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New Science Buildings at Cambridge. Nature 134, 563 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134563a0
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