The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-25

ing Deen Settled, Salt Lake city re-
! tanning that institution, it IS to be ex-
pected that measures will be taken to
make it an educational establishment
OF whitehall Utah will be proud. En-
dorsements by people of means who
are interested in the advancement Of
higher education will no doubt be
made in due time, and the lands CIV
en- by the national government and
this municipality will be utilized to
aid in furnishing the funds needed to
place the university on a solid gesis.
The Salt Lake Literary and Scien-
tific association has made a magnifl-
cent gift to the university, in convey
ing to it the scientific apparatus
which was intended for the church
university, and also the use of the
collection of curioSities and speci-
mems of various kinds known as the
Deseret Museum. These now are
available ito the students and profess
sors of the university but are in the
building erected by the association
in the Seventeenth ward.
The Scientific American of April 20,
contains a fine picture of the build
ing with letter press description of
its contents. furnished by President
James E. Talmage, who also fills the
chair of "Deseret Professorship of
Geology in the university. That pa
per remarks:
Under the auspices of the Deseret
Museum, the wonderful selenite for
nation in Wayne county, Utah, has
been worked. and of the magnificent
crystals thus obtained upward of If
teen tons have been gratuitously dis
tributed to museums and other insti-
buttons of learning throughout the
United States and in Europe.
Concerning the Literary and Scien-
tific association, which owns the mu-
scum, the Scientific American says:
The specified purposes of the asso-
citation are the promoting of study
in literary and scientific subjects. es-
pecially the encouragement of the
pursuit of natural history, including
ethnology and the formation and
preservation of museums and libra
ries.
The following description of the
building is also given in that paper:
The structure is a pressed brick,
with gray sandstone trimmings; is 80
feet in length and 81 feet wide, COM
prising three floors and a basement
A central tower rises on the west or
front side. This is utilized on the top
floor for meteorological work. Regu-
lar courses of evening lectures have
been conducted during the past year
and class work has been carried ON
during the day. A limited number of
students has been admitted to the
day classes, with the privilege of the
laboratories: but the evening lectures
are open to the public. with proper
restrictions.
In the basement is situated an eff
Gent heating and ventilating plant,
toilet rooms, storage rooms for chem
icals, chemical apparatus, and min
eralogical machinery. and a commo-
dtous assay room. The main lecture
hall, 16 by 50 feet, has its principal
entrance on the first floor, the seats
being terraced, to give from all pants
q view of the demonstration table.
This table is provided with conimodi-
Gus pneumatic trough, gas, electric
wires from the primary and storage
battery. and numerous other facili-
STATIONS a movable platform 1s
placed behind and on d level with the
table. The wall in front of the audi
ence is used in place of a screen for
stereopticon projections. On the first
floor are also three smaller lecture
rooms and an Office.
The second floor is entirely devoted
to physical science. A small lecture
room is provided with d demonstration
table. similar to that in the main room.
and an extensive series of charts oc-
cupies a frame behind the table. \
for general chemistry. 80 by
so feet. and another for analytical
work, SO by % feet. are on this floor.
The laboratory rooms are excellently
lighted and the tables are set dlagon-
ally so that no worker intercepts his
light. A combustion table
covered with asbestos mill board and
provided with blow pipes and blast, an
anvil, and other appliances. are con-
veniently located in each room
The apparatus room contains
a main case, Is feet by 9 feet high by
) feet deep; two corner cases. each 3
feet long and of height and depth cor
responding to the other The apparatus
constitutes a particularly full equipment
for demonstrations in natural philoso-
ply and in general and analytical
The physical lecture and
chemical apparatus for demonstration
alone has cost about $4,000. The cur
ator's private laboratory is
very completely fitted up for analytical
and general work. 1t contains well
equipped working table. a table for
blowpipe analysis. and a corner table
for occasional work with the micro
scope. hoods with automatic burners.
etc. A balance room adjoin-
ing the private laboratory gives pro-
lection to two pulp and pharmaceutical
balances. Becker long arm analytical.
a Sartorius short arm analytical, a |
Troemner assay balance, and a Mohr
specific gravity balance. These are
mounted on marble slabs. carried by
iron supports independent of the floor.
The curator's private Office. an assist
ants laboratory and a dark room CON-
olete the apartments of this floor.
The third floor is occupied wholly by
the museum. The stair landing carries
two upright cases. in which Is an ex-
,ellent display of the finest of the sell |
anite crystals taken from the Wayne |
county geode. The main room extends |
he entire length of the building and |
S 80 feet wide. 1t holds thirteen up |
light cases, and wall cases along one |
entire side. This room is devoted MAIN |
Y to mineralogy and geology, though |
some cases are occupied by Shells and /
.orals Two other rooms are given up |
% zoology and ethnology respectively. |
1t present the catalogue shows upward |
# 5000 mineralogical and Theological /
pecimens; a thousand archaeological /
;pecimens; 500 vertebrate preparations.
whole or parts: 1000 invertebrate pre-
,arations: and nearly 1000 chronological
pecimens. The Deseret Museum en-
oys the distinction Of having been ad-
nitted to membership IN the museums
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