PAGE 12 WEBER ACADEMY The new building is a beautiful brick structure adjoining the old building on the west. It is seventy-six feet wide by one hundred feet in length, with two stories and a basement. On the first floor is located the principal's office, waiting room and seven class rooms, the largest of which is twenty-eight by forty feet and the smallest eighteen by twenty-two. The basement contains the Manual Training rooms and the Zoology, Botany and Chemistry laboratories and the Art room. The second floor is occupied by two class rooms, the Band room, the Orchestra room, the "Acorn" office, and the large lecture hall with a seating capacity of fifteen hundred. Library. The library adjoins the large Study Hall and reading room. It contains valuable books on philosophy, religion, sociology, philology, natural science, useful arts, literature, and history. A carefully selected list of books is added each year by purchase, and many others are contributed by friends of the school. These are classified and catalogued according to the Dewey system. The reading room is furnished with individual desks accommodating about 200 students. Equipment. Chemistry.The chemical laboratory occupies a large, well-ventilated room on the first floor of the new building, and is thoroughly equipped for experimental work in general chemistry. Large double desks are provided, each of which has adequate drawer and shelf space, and an entire set of apparatus and reagent bottles. One gas connection with a Bunsen burner is conveniently arranged for the use of each student at his desk. Sinks and water connections are also applied. Two chemical balances with weights of pre- WEBER ACADEMY PAGE 13 cision are among the more costly apparatus. The department has at its disposal a stock of glass tubing, beakers, test tubes, porcelain ware, laboratory hardware and a complete supply of chemicals. Physics.The physical laboratory is fairly well supplied with the apparatus necessary to demonstrate the work offered in the course. The more important items are a Wimhurst electrical machine, Ruhmkorff coil, movable coils, electric motor, Wheatstone bridge, rheostat, Geissler tubes, air pump, lifting and force pumps, adjustable inclined plane, galvanometer, electromagnet, sonometer, lenses, thermometers, a variety of galvanized cells and a set of apparatus for students' use in the laboratory. Geology.There is provided for the work in geology a representative collection of specimens. The collection includes typical specimens of ingenous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks; and samples of the more common lead, silver, gold, copper, and iron ores collected in Utah and adjoining states. During the past four years the collection has been increased by the addition of a variety of specimens collected in the Wasatch range near Ogden, and by seventy-five specimens secured through purchase. The specimens are labeled in separate trays, and are classified with respect to origin and composition. Physiology.There are in the laboratory prepared slides, microscopes and a complete skeleton for the use of students in physiology. Zoology.The work in zoology may be made especially strong and efficient because of the large amount of laboratory material. This consists of dissecting microscopes, compound microscopes, preserved specimens, a dozen cases containing a large assortment of insects of various kinds, and a miniature fish hatchery, in which every stage of development may be studied.