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Fig. 11.—Laboratory for Experiments on Theory of Gymnastics
ment concrete pillars isolated from the building allow non-shaking arrangements. A special room is intended for chemical work and glass-blowing.
Next to the workshop is a small machinery room with two d.c.-a.c. generators and two d.c.-d.c. generators. The former can give alternating current from 127-220 volts in each phase, the latter direct current from 40-120 volts. The current from these generators as well as from the batteries can be sent through the main switchboard to every room in the laboratory and to several rooms in the other laboratories of the institute. This main switchboard, which like the switchboard of the large lecture-theater has been designed and made in the laboratory workshop, uses the plug system. Every kind of regulation of the batteries and generators is made on the switchboard which also has all necessary measuring apparatus.
Professor H. M. Hanson is director of the Laboratory of Biophysics.
LABORATORY FOR THE THEORY OF GYMNASTICS
The purpose of the Laboratory for the Theory of Gymnastics is to teach a course in anatomy and general (physiological) theory of gymnastics to students belong-
ing to the faculty of science and to the faculty of philosophy which will qualify them as teachers of gymnastics in the high schools. The teaching of students belonging to the faculty of science consists in lectures, examinations, demonstrations, and a practical course in experimental physiology of about one hundred hours. For the students belonging to the faculty of philosophy the entire course is less than for the former, and the practical course is omitted. The number of students in the first group is at present forty-two; and in the second, seventy-four.
The scientific purpose of the laboratory is to take up problems concerning the physiology of organs of locomotion and the influence of muscular exercises upon the entire organism. The purpose falls naturally in two parts: a general, and a special. The general part consists in studying the function of joints and muscles together with the influence of muscular work upon the organism. In this respect the work of the laboratory has essentially been concentrated about researches concerning the structure and function of the muscle and the influence of muscular work upon respiration and circulation, while the special part consists in analyzing the gymnastic exercises with respect to their mechanical conditions.