The New York herald., 1922-05-07
NEW LABORATORIES
AT MOUNT HOLYOKE
Work to Begin at Once on
Science Building for
Women's College.
STRUCTURE ON HILLSIDE
Many Gifts Have Been Made
to Institution by Graduates
and Friends.

to Institution by Graduates
and Friends.
Special Dispatch 10 THE New York HERALD.
SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. May s.--Work
| Is to begin at once on the new science
Sbuilding at Mount Holyoke College.
South Hadley. Mass. one OF the fore
most objects of the campaign for the
SS.000.O00 endowment fund which the
| college is still engaged in raising The
new building will be set on the hillside
on which stood Williston Hall, destroyed
by fire In 1917. and will provide spa
cious quarters for the departments OF
botany, geology, hygiene, physiology and
| zoology Putnam e. Cox OF State street,
Boston. are architects for the building.
The building is to be of fireproof con-
struction. OF brick trimmed with stone.
in the shape of an open Fl. having
two irregular wings in front with a
tower between. and a long hall flanked
| by class rooms and laboratories on either
| side extending through the entire length
Of the building to two irregular wings
| behind. II will be four stories high,
with basement and SUBJ basement in ad-
dition.
| The first floor will be occupied by
! the zoology department which is in
| charge of DR.. Ann II. Morgan of New
London, Conn.,. successor to Dr. Cor
nelia NJ. Clapp. who founded the depart-
ment. This section contains the Cor
nelia NJ. Clapp geological museum and
| a series of laboratories and class rooms.
| This will consist of a teaching collec-
\ ton illustrating the main lines OF study
| to be emphasiz in the geological work.
Series OF Exhibits.
Dissections comparing animal and hu-
man anatomy and animal and human
embryology win illustrate courses which
aim toward the preparation for the pro-
! fessions of medicine, nursing and work
with physicians or in hospital and mu-
nicipal laboratories. A series of exhib-
| it's illustrating the principles of hered-
| ity and eugenics represent courses whose
aim is to present facts essential to in
telligent citizenship and to real commu-
nifty service whether general or profess
sionaL
Natural history or outdoor zoology is
a study for which the campus and coun-
tryside about Mount Holyoke offer ex-
ceptional opportunities. Joseph A.
Skinner of the Skinner Silk Company
has given generously toward the collec-
| ton of native animals, constituting the
natural history section OF the museum,
and the Field Museum of Chicago has
presented mounted specimens of 400
American animals.
Among the most important labora-
tories will be the two alumnee zoolosical
| laboratories where the students VIII do
their beginning work and which VIII
be entirely furnished by Mount Holyoke
graduates who have specialized In zool-
ogy; the Rosabel Miller embryology
laboratory, for which classmates and
friends have subscribed $4,000; the
Walter II. Merriam laboratory for medi-
cal zoology, equipped by Mrs. Merriam
i'm honor of her husband, former well
known Cleveland physician: and the
biologists laboratory for the study OF
anatomy. equipped by biologists through
out the country in honor OF DR.. Cornelia
NJ Clapp. and the laboratory for study
| of heredity.
There will also be q large laboratory
in the basement for the study OF field
zoology. which will be named for DR..
Louise b. Wallace, graduate and for
mer associate professor of zoology at
Mount Holyoke now dean of the
Women's College OF Constantinople. An
auditorium with inclined floor and NOV
| ing picture apparatus, storerooms. work
shops and meteorological apparatus, VIII
| occupy the rest OF the basement. which
will be beneath the ground in front and
entirely above ground at the rear.
Department of Botany.
| The department of botany. of which
| Dr. Alma c. Stokey OF Canton, o.. Is
head. will occupy the second floor. with
the exception Of the section used by the
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west wing, which will be a continuation
| of the geological museum and library.
The space viii be devoted to labora-
| tories, preparation rooms. offices. lecture
| rooms and an herbarum and museum
room. In line with the general policy or
| the college, the work will be conducted
In small classes, and the laboratory for
| general botany will accommodate sec
tions OF eighteen students. CHARTS
photographs and other Illustrative ma
terial including. when possible. actuai
specimens representing the evolutionary
! sequence of plants, will be displayed IN
| this laboratory.
The work in bacteriology. an import
ant feature OF the botany department.
will be carried on In two well equipped
laboratories with two preparation rooms
constant temperature room Tor incupat-
ors. rooms for ovens and autoclaves, ana
room for refrigerators on the second
| floor. with a cold room and room
for animals in the basement. rms
eoulpment will make II possible to ex-
| tend the work so that IL may Include
household bacteriology. public heaitn
work. and pre-medical work
The laboratory OF morphology VIII be
ma med for DR.. Henrietta r. Hooker oil
south Hadley. a member OF the depart. .
,nent for twenty-five years. and head
from 1889 to 1908.
The herbarum and museum VIII be
developed along four lines: a regional
berbarhim of New ENGLAND fora,
collection OF ferns and fern allies, an
| Geological collection containing type
nlants from the entire United states,
and an economic collection OF plants
and plant products.
DR. Elizabeth c. Underhill. OF Pough-
keepsie, IL in charge of the health OF
| tha students and Of the department OF
hygiene. which will share the second
aoor with the department of botany.
This depa rtment plans for especial de-
velopment as soon as the new building
is available. and will establish new
courses connected particularly with the
health problems OF each individual stu
dent.
The department OF geology of which
RESORTS.
New Jersey.