Agricultural Entomology in the University of Manchester

Abstract

The new laboratory for research work in agricultural entomology in the University of Manchester is situated at the top of the north-east corner of the University buildings in Oxford Road. Its position gives easy access to the general zoological laboratories on the floor below and to the collections of the Manchester Museum in the same building. It is a lofty room, 58 ft. in length by 28 ft. wide, with accommodation for five or six persons engaged in original investigations. The windows under which the working benches are placed face due north, and two large skylights in the sloping roof give illumination on the south side of the room. Leading out of the main laboratory there is a private room for the reader in agricultural entomology, 17 ft. by 17 ft., with a staircase leading to a working place raised above the floor level.