ABSTRACT
The word laboratory which merely signifies a workshop has by long custom been applied chiefly to the room or building in which chemical experiments are carried on or at any rate experiments in natural science in which operations more or less chemical in character are practised. One of the largest and most completely equipped chemical departments was erected by the British Government for the accommodation of the Royal College of Science and Royal School of Mines at South Kensington, London, and was occupied for the first time in 1906. The laboratories just described were designed for instruction and research in pure scientific chemistry. A very large amount of work of this kind has been done in the new laboratories with results which have been communicated chiefly to the Chemical Society of London, but a good deal has also been done in connection with problems of a more or less directly technical character.
