as well as reptiles, fishes,
mollusks and insects, in all of which particular effort has been made to
show forms native to the State. The Anthropological Collection includes
the entire exhibit of the Chinese Government at the New Orleans
Exposition in 1885, as well as many items from China and the
Philippines, collected by the Beal-Steere Expedition. The collections in
geology, mineralogy, botany, materia medica, chemistry, the industrial
arts, and the fine arts are to be found in the Natural Science Building
and other buildings devoted to these special subjects.

For many years the original forty acres of the Rumsey farm were more
than ample for the needs of the University. The Observatory, the first
building to find a place apart from the Campus, was set upon its hilltop
some distance northeast, because of the need of clear air and quiet;
advantages now almost lost in the proximity of the hospitals, heating
plant, and railroads that portends an eventual change in location. The
Observatory has grown rapidly since its establishment by Dr. Tappan in
1852. The building was last remodeled and enlarged in 1911 when a
reflecting telescope, with a 37-5/8 inch parabolic mirror, largely made
in the shops of the University, was installed. In light gathering power
this instrument is in a class with the Lick and Yerkes refractors, and
it is at least as effective in astronomical photography, the purpose for
which it was designed. The new brick tower, with its copper-covered
dome, rises sixty feet above the basement and is forty feet in diameter.

Just beyond the Observatory, on the crest of the hills defining the
Huron valley, is the largest group of university buildings off the
Campus, the old University Hospitals, which are to be replaced in 1922
by the new Hospital, ground for which was broken in September, 1919.
Following the erection of the first building in 1891 an office building
was added in 1896 to be followed rapidly by other sections, including a
children's pavilion erected in 1901, known as the Palmer Ward, the
bequest of the widow of Dr. Alonzo B. Palmer, who also left $15,000 for
the maintenance of free beds in it. The entire group of buildings
numbers ten, including the State Psychopathic Hospital.

The new Hospital is to be one of the largest and most completely
equipped in America. It is composed of a series of wings taking the
general form of a double letter "Y" connected at the stems, with a
smaller office buil