Word: floors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...loneliness. The faces in the large groups and small portraits alike are executed with great care and individuality. Among the smaller pictures the snow scenes show a unique power in the use of white; and the paintings of the Pearl Mosque give the effect of reflection on a marble floor so perfectly that it is difficult to believe, at first, that the scenes are only on canvass. The mosque pictures also show a remarkable power of detail...
...account of a radical change which is being made in its whole basis, is the Mineralogical Department. Most of the students of chemistry who go to Boylston Hall so often have probably noticed two cases of minerals which stand at the head of the stairs on the second floor, but comparatively few seem to be aware that in the room on the left of the stairs is one of the finest collection of meteorites in the world. This collection which, on the basis of the present value of the substances contained in it, is worth, approximately, a million and half...
...basement of the new building are rooms for analysis and assaying, and also a fire proof room which is to be provided with smelting furnaces. Over these on the first floor are the general laboratories, the library, the assistant's room and the lecture room. The general laboratories contain tables covered with tiles, which will provide working places for eighty students. Each student is given an iron box in which to keep his instruments. These boxes are arranged in tiers along the wall. On the second floor are special laboratories for advanced classes. On the third floor the entire space...
...arrangement will be after the plan of the British Museum. The fourth floor serves as a broad gallery running about the large specimen room, the centre being left open to better the conditions for light. The gallery will also contain show cases. The funds for this spacious exhibition room were raised by Professor Cook and Dr. Huntlngton. When all the plans have been carried out and the building stands completed, it will be one of the finest museums in the world. Boylston Hall will then be given up entirely to the Department of Chemistry...
...fifth floor belongs exclusively to Professor Farlow for his courses. Over this is a large attic used for a store room...