To be sure certain constant requirements have demanded a special
fitting up of one room as a workshop, one room for the more
delicate instruments, one for the beginning course in experimental
work, a lecture-room for the courses in comparative psychology, a
photography-room, a battery-room, a sound-proof room, the chief animal
rooms, and the dark rooms. We have seven light-proof rooms, finished
in black, of which two have outside windows for heliostats; of the
others, four can be used for optical research; the longest one contains
the photometer. Six other rooms, including the lecture-room, may be
darkened by opaque blinds. One contains a partition with door and a
grooved window-frame fitted with screens in which openings of any
desired size and shape may be cut. This window is opposite the main
door of the room, and opposite this, across the central hall, some
sixty feet away, is the door of another dark room; optical stimuli can
thus be given from this window to a subject over seventy feet away.
Several rooms are fitted up with special reference to the investigation
of the various forms of organic movement, animal behavior and
intelligence. As one result of several investigations in animal
psychology already pursued here, the laboratory has a considerable
number of devices for testing and making statistical studies of the
senses and intelligence, methods of learning and emotional reactions of
animals.
Adequate provision is made for the keeping of animals in a large,
well-lighted, and well-ventilated corner room. Instead of having
aquaria built into the room, an aquarium-table eighteen feet long has
been constructed to support moveable aquaria of various sizes. Whenever
it is desirable for the purposes of an investigation, any of these
aquaria may be moved to the research-room of the investigator or to
such quarters as the special conditions of the experiment demand.
The vivarium-room contains, in addition to provisions for
water-inhabiting animals, cages of a variety of forms and sizes. The
largest of these cages, six and a half feet high, six feet wide,
and four feet deep, may be used for birds, monkeys, or any of the
medium-sized mammals. Cages for rabbits, guinea-pigs, and other small
animals are arranged in frames which support four double compartments.
Similarly, small cages suitable for mice, rats, and other small rodents
are in supporting frames which carry four of the double cages, each of
which is removeable and may be carried to the experimenting-room at the
convenience of the experimenter.
In a large unheated room above the main laboratory are tanks for
amphibians and reptiles. These tanks, since they can be kept at a low
temperature during the winter, are very convenient and useful for
frogs, tortoises, and similar hibernating animals.
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