New-York tribune., 1875-09-14
4 MEDICAL c0LLEGES PROGRESS.

orrvING or TIE NEW HOME OF THF MEDICAL 1T
pARrMrNT or THE UNIVERSITY OF TIE CITY or
NEW-YOEK.
The Faculty of the Medical Department OF
the University the City OF New York formally opened
their new building at No 40 East Twenty-sixtSt last
evening The Medical Department OF this University was
first established in ISL, in Suyycsant Institute III
Broadway Since that time the wants OF the college nave
outgrown from time time the buildings occupied b.!
g. The present structure has been erected at large
pcuse and the Faculty declare that they now have 2
building ada pied their wants Tic new building ls 100
hv 60 four stories ,with comnoiou~ basement
The front s OF Philadelphia brick, with red sa,dstone
trimmings and is built In the Italian Gothic style The
hall ON the first floor : 10 feet wide, with heavy cornices
suppored by walnut pisstcr tie floor being tled with
marble On this floor reception room AMI the Office
of the Dean of the Faculty, the room for the museum
clerks OH &C. and The apai ncnts OF the antor broad
staircase leads tO The second loo? on when Is hc aF'
lecture ROOM the Faculty and waiting rooms, laboratory
and roUIns for patients who may he thc SUBJECTS ior
clinical lectures. The lecture room is fed with opera
chairs and will seat 500 students. Il is well Nohtl
lated. aui is heated 10y indirect radiation. Tie
third floor is divided into for the use OF students
and tnonssors Ia may be engaged IN practical research
and study in connection with medical science. Tie
fourth il manly used for the dSseciing room rms
auartnent has an Of nearly 1000 siare icct ad
the tables arranged that 900 students can WORK
uron Them az the same time. Tie arrangements for
Light and ventilation upon improved p"n ana the
Faruty claim That ii will be Of the most coinm' dio5
and conv,n ont dl secti.c rooms Tie world On this
floor also il complete laboratory for physiological re-
search and study. There is elevator In the building
Among the prominent gentlemen IN the throns wHch
visited the new building last evening were the venerable
Martyn Paine. NJ. d.. IL D.; Prof8. Alfred G Po,''
Charles A. Budd. John e. Draper william Daring, j. "
G. Arnold John T. Darby, &. IHsiec PaIde Dean o tlt
Faculty; ID. H. II. John Roosa Mon:rose a. Palc A. J..
Macdonald. H. A. Mitiials IT, JoscpH u "lm,i @ ""' ~
Howe John TAYLOR Johnston. x. A. WnN.Hls' ~
willis James, r W. Blake David Dows Dr- r. A. Caste
and Georgr L. Peters Dr. s. W. Bell, editor OF nc san
Dr L. H. james Assistant superintendent ~ thc tit'iN
Board oi heath irof john G. Dacn, inc pH'l ,oslI
Bureau OF Ncw-york Dr. Daniel ~ hhchcn On ei OF '
Medical ~ Backwclls Island d. f. Lc IL SitleTl"'
Irof- william A. Hammond, stephen tniih, "n'
several other prominent memhers % the iacmy VIZ W
expected TO present. bnt found themselves unable 10
served in the reception ana 1nust ln on the mr.
floor bv elncnico There were nO speeches, bn blsh
conversation Wa~ kept up among the groups oi f'oNS
who gathered praise the new building ana 10 discuss
the future college Tie large lecture room On The
serOud 1oCr filed with ladies and gentlemen WHO
worc entertained nv music hy yCrafulla's Band
one of tie noticeable features Of the new huildng he
sides its general cOnvcncnces and advantages Tor leh-
cal study. is The physiological laboratory lIoi D. W. =
Arnold has cnarge OF tEis department. aiG us iDoi %
have been fitted up with what ~ claimed to be the mos,
c0mIeie apparatus c the Kind in TINS country lables
fitted with compartments FOR experiments upon animals
hot aud cold water every maud, steam ana @s Wh're
ever needed electric wires with switches and cOnnec-
tiops room fitted w for keeping the animals mat are
used microscopes and their appliances and III iact an
the apparatus that goes TO make up the physolos's
comucte Workshop and laboratory in tnis depart
meni. Tho first ccuc is tn he delivered to-inonoW al
9 a. III. ny lrof. Darling This opens The preparatory
The regular inter sHioii pegihs Oh 0tP ~
The Faculty Xprcsscd the opinion that e COLLEGE under
it, many present advantages must be more prosperous
ia the future than ever oci"rc