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A BRIEF CATALOG OF PLACES OF IMPORT TO VISITORS IN CAMBRIDGE.

These members of the University who have been sometimes embarrassed upon being asked by visitors as to the location of the principal points of interest about Cambridge, and those visitors who have no students whom they have a right to embarrass, may perhaps find the following brief guide of University Cambridge of some convenience.

The Ware collection of Blaschka Glass Models and Plants will undoubtedly be the first object of interest to the visitor. It is on the third floor of the centre of the University Museum; the University Museum is the large building with the green roof directly north of the Yard on Oxford street.

In this building are also housed the Museum of Comparative Zoology (open week days, from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.; Sundays, from 1 to 5 P. M.), the Mineralogical and Geological Museum (open daily, including Sundays from 1 to 5 P. M., Saturdays, from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.), and the Peabody Museum (open daily, except Sundays and holidays, from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.).

Directly opposite the University Museum on Divinity avenue is the Semitic Museum, a smaller historical museum. It is open daily, except Sundays and holidays, from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.

In the Fogg Art Museum, which is on the north side of the Yard facing Memorial Hall, there is a small but extremely interesting collection of various exhibitions which have been donated from time to time. Works by Ruskin and Turner, Japanese panels, some rare Renaissance paintings, and a considerable collection a prints are among the more interesting objects to be found here. It is open daily, except Sundays and holidays, from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.; Sundays from 1 to 5 P. M.

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The Botanic Gardens are about one mile north east of the Yard on Garden street. Here is located the Grey Herbarium. The gardens are open daily from sunrise until sunset.

The College Observatory is also on Garden street, several blocks nearer the Yard. Here there is an extensive equipment for graduate research work.

On Kirkland street, diagonally opposite Memorial Hall is the Germanic Museum. The construction of this new building was completed in 1915 but during and since the war it has been closed to the public.

In the Yard the only building open to the public is the Widener Memorial Library. Here are located the Treasure Room, where the rarest collections belonging to the University are on exhibition. On the mezzanine floor is found the Memorial Room, where the Harry Elkins Widener Collection is kept; book lovers may, upon application to the attendant, inspect the rarer volumes. Outside the Memorial Room are tablets holding the pictures of all the members of the University who lost their lives in the Great War. The Farnsworth Room, situated to the right of the main entrance, is a memorial room containing a splendid collection of standard authors. This room is intended only for pleasure reading and studying is not permitted. On the top floor there are a number of special, smaller libraries. The most notable of these is the Dramatic Library, which is recognized as one of the leading collections to be found in the country. The building is open on week days from 8.45 A. M. to 10 P. M., although after 6 o'clock only the general reading room and the Farnsworth Room are available.

Radcliffe College is on Garden street, a few blocks north of the Yard.

The Stillman Infirmary is on Mt. Auburn street, looking out over the Charles River, and adjacent to the Cambridge Hospital.

In Randall Hall on Kirkland street, a few hundred feet from the Yard, is the Harvard University Press. Here are printed all the official bulletins of the various schools and departments of the University and also a considerable number of general publications.

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