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few take laboratory work.
He has a special small chemical laboratory, with hood.
A "summer" plant-house, not artificially heated.
He has a dark room, with electric centrifugal, etc.
I also noticed colored glass compartments.
A laboratory for special advanced students
A library and reading room, - quite fair.
Another special laboratory for advanced work.
[[underlined]] In the basement: [[/underlined]] (open & lighted)
A collection of plants - products, and demonstration material. Good.
A room for models and slides (lantern)
A large lecture room.
- There is an old green house next to the building, and next to it a double

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house, one part dry the other hot.
He also has sunken forcing beds, which he considers very useful.
Dr. Klebs wants wood section for both stufy and exhibition. Specimens half the length of this page will be sufficient. He wants them for comparative study (microscopic) chiefly.
Examinations compelled a rather hasty survey of the place, but Dr. Klebs himself impressed me as an energetic, forceful character, - and withal genial.  Took dinner at a restaurant near the garden, and waiting until 2 + P.M. for rain to stop.
Unfortunately the Botanical Garden is removed some distance from the Botanical Institute. It is not large, as compared with some, and there is some open space in it. There sure to be a good many kinds of trees, but the central part of the garden has few.