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United States . The series of furnaces are built externally of common brick , internall y of the fire-proof brick , covered with slabs of soap-stone . This
series includes the furnaces for digesting and for naked distillation ; a wind furnace , which with proper fuel will produce a temperature sufficiently high to melt the substance of a Hessian
crucible , and to vitrify the fire-proof brick with which it is lined ; a muffle furnace ; a forge , worked with an organ bellows ; a furnace for common purposes ' , and a distilling apparatus . The flues of these furnaces are carried up separately , to the height of about 35 feet , by which a very strong draught is obtained . One of Accum ' s universal
furnaces is placed on an elevation in the lecture-room , in order that most of the operations which require heat may be viewed by the audience during the lecture . The Laboratory is about 35 feet in length and 28 in breadth .
Among the instruments and apparatus recently imported , may be noticed Leslie ' s photometer ; Pepy ' s mercurial gazometer ; an electrical machine and electrometer , by Singer ; an excellent air-pump , with stopcocks fitted to jars of different sizes ; Wollaston ' s
reflectiye goniometer ; the differential thermometer ; Ferguson ' s improved pyrometer ; a voltaic battery in troughs of Wedgewood's ware ; galvanometers and condensers ; apparatus for the slow and rapid combustion of hydrogen , for the decomposition of water , &c .
An elegant cabinet of minerals , containing among the rest a number of highly valuable foreign specimens , presented by the French Government , and by Dr . Lettsom , of London , is annexed to the chemical department . Botanic Garden .
A piece of ground , handsomely situated with a gradual declivity towards the south , has been appropriated to the purposes of a Botanic Garden , being partly ^ a purchase of the subscribers to the Natural Kftstory Fund , and partly the donation of Andrew m * ««* -v * m rf < o « v'v Li *** . * - « ¦ 4 » « m r % « iA » m m *^ A * ^ -k * \ * -fc wr * . ^ v - ¦ •* 4 . L . * - * . 1 _* T Craigie It isitited about ha lf
, Esq . $ ^ aa mile , to the \ yest of the College edifices , and contains from seven to eight acres . This &pat is handsomely i ^ aclosed with a high fence ajxd a belt of trees , the northern side being sheltered with « copse of evergreens . It contains three buildings ; t&e professor's house ,
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situated on an eminence on the western side , and affording a delightful view of the garden ; a gardener * s hous $ on the apposite side , and an extensive greenhouse and conservatory for the plants
of warm climates in the centre . The latter building contains apartments admitting different degrees of heat , calculated for the plants of ail latitudes and climates south of us . It is furnished with a rich and splendid collection of exotic trees , shrubs and plants ,
assembled from the southern parts of our own country and of Europe , from the two Indies , from Africa , South America and New Holland . The area of the garden is laid out in the most ornamental style , and is constantly
kept in high cultivation . It contains an extensive and increasing variety of hardy plants , both native and foreign , and in the vegetating season affords to the students of the University a most excellent practical field for the pursuit of botanical studies . A fountain and
a pool of water near the centre , furnish a place for the cultivation of " aquatics , and an unfailing supply for the purpose of watering the garden . The whole is
under the immediate supenntendance of the Professor of Natural History , and a suitable number of gardeners is constantly employed for its cultivation .
Anatomical Museum . The University contains two collections of anatomical preparations , one of which is kept in Boston and belongs to the Medical School ; the other in Cambridge , for the use of the senior class of students in literature , and the occasional instruction of the medical
class . The first contains about a thousand pieces , which are of three kinds . 1 st . Diy injected blood-vessel preparations of different parts of the human body . 2 nd . Wet preparations of healthy structure , which are mostly injected . 3 rd . Morbid preparations . Among the osseous pieces are
uncommonly fine specimens of Exostosis , Anchylosis , Necrosis , Spina Ventosa and Fracture ; amd , among the soft parts , of organic diseases of the heart and arteries . TJfce injected wet preparations of healthy structure , are probably not exceeded in the United States in nuwJber qr beauty . Those of tfce organ of vision are peculiarly elegant
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506 Account of Harvard University ' , in Cambridge , Massachusetts .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1820, page 506, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2492/page/6/
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