The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-07-24

ranged az n department library rms
greatly facilitates and encourages inc
use of law books by the students anu
they receive. moreover formal ihs.i W
ton on the best methods for fearen''s
and using legal authoritics Inc eni-'
need Of the school is now ampier pu"'
ters An additional lecture room anu
more commodious library room are Hi.c"
wanted. And as the academical p'oies-
sors arc greatly pressed LOT N0."io
rooms It is hoped that the rooms no"
occupied by the law school may soon De
surrendered to them. and ne" il"
building erected FOR the professional ',-
tartment minor Hall" would be 'onie
memorial 10 the life-work or rarely
gisteI and devoted teacher
81 conMcx OBSERVATORY.
A short description OF the several
scientific establishments connected WIN
the University may be not without M
tercst. Beginning with Things cei'stiii'
we climb To the summit OF the bill, Re-
ioicing in the high-sounding title OF
Mount jefferson. and find ourselves in
f~ont Of the Mccormick Observatory W e.
enter the computing room. which cone
tsins the department library Of 900 vol
umes and the time-kcepins apparatus or
the observatory and passing through. md
ourselves in the forty-ive-foot rOtunia,
which contains the great equatorial The
roof is a steel dome. mounted on c0n.Cal
wheels. which run on cast-irOn ped
plate so smooth and accurately level
led that the pull OF d child causes the
whole dome to- rcvOlvc quickly and quiet
Is. A broad slit closed hy sliding shut
tiers. an0rrs an opening TO the skies. ana
through 1t the huge telescope Is direct
4 81 e. N. b. |fa .fs..a Na.aH
may be chosen for study Like a great
eye. twenty-six inches boz diameter. 70 coli
lects the light rays from the faintest and
most distant OF these objects. Dim nen-
ulae, invisible % the naked eye. grow
into shinmering fields OF light. Many
lonely star is separated into pair or
scintllating suns. The rings of saturn
the satellites of Mars. are revealed. And
.cyen the pale. cold moon pOurs down
from her full orb a radiant Hood that
dazzlcs the eye so lover of science
should willingly foreso these visions.
NATURAL HISTORY MusEuY.
We descend the mountain and visit
next the Brooks Museum. All the realms
OF natural history End here their pro-
ducts exhibited in orderly review. The
first floor shows us the rocks OF which
the earth's crust is built. and their suc-
coseiyc transformations In the vast ages
Of geologic history. the vegetable forms,
which left their ghOstiy Impress 100 these
hard mcuils. and the animate eXistenccs,
which peOQied our world in an IFS various
ages from the lowest mOllusks up
through fishes and reptiles. 10 the mann
mails and 20 man-from the tiniost she'll
fsh to the huge mesatherium or the
mammoth Siberian elephant whose vast
bulk towers above the observer. Great
reief-maps OF the chief volcanic fOr-
nations. drawings. and charts and m0d-
els. extensive collections OF ores and
minerals and building stones filling the
galleries which surround the room. serve
20 facilitate the study of geology and
mincralogy. The upper floor is devoted
90 the sciences of zoology and botany. ln
one apartment we ind "a corresponding
arrangement 20 that Zoo the room below.
Illustrating AN forms Of animal life from
the mollusk 20 the monkey. and arranged
so as 10 exhibit for each genus ana
species both IT'S external form and us
anatomical structure The other cone
tains a series of charts and models. de-