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162 Section 9. BERLIN. Agricult. Academy.
junction (PL R, 21) are three important scientific institutions, in
buildings by Tiede: viz. the Agricultural Academy, to the E.; the
Museum of Natural History, in the middle; and the School of
Mines, to the W. (p. 164); comp. the adjoining Plan.
Tramways (see p. 14-22) from the Neue Tor: Nos. 2, 10, 11, 16, 19,
51, 57, Q, V, and (via, the Chaussee-Str., to the E.) Nos. 25, 26, 28, 29,
32, 34, 43, and 68.
The Agricultural Academy (950 students), founded in 1810
by A. Thaer (p. 158) at Moglin near Wriezen, was removed to its
present quarters in 1880. It contains the Agricultural Museum
(adm. see p. 36; official guide, 1908, 75 pf.). In the vestibule are
models by Rau, illustrating the history of manual tools and of the
plough. In the covered court straight on is the Machinery De¬
partment (objects changed from time to time), including a collec¬
tion of models. On the groundfloor also (in front and to the left)
is the Zoological Department, with a large collection of the skulls
and skeletons of domestic animals. — On the first floor, on the N.
side, is the Zootechnical Department, illustrating the develop¬
ment of stock-farming and fisheries, with models of farm-cattle,
etc. The W. wing contains the Minercdogical and Geological
Department: specimens of rocks and soil; mineral fertilizers; geo¬
logical map of Berlin (to the depth of 1250 ft.) under glass; re¬
presentations of the salt industry in Stassfurt and of the saltpetre
industry in Chili. The Vegetable Department, in the S. wing,
illustrates the history of gardening, agriculture, and forestry; also
the relative values of different foods, etc. On the side next the
glass-covered court is a colonial section. In the E. wing is a Tech¬
nological Department; also collections illustrating the biology and
pathology of plants.
The *Museum of Natural History (PL R, 21), built in
1883-89, bears on its fagade portraits in sandstone of L. von Buch
(d. 1853), the geologist, and Joh. Miiller (d. 1858), the physiologist.
Adm., see p. 38. The building accommodates three separate insti¬
tutions, each with its museum, viz. the Geological & Palueonto-
logicul Institute, the Mineralogical & Petrographical Institute,
and the Zoological Institute. — The 'Main Collections', on the first
and second floors, are reserved for students. The 'Exhibition Collec¬
tion', to which alone the public are admitted, occupies most of the
groundfloor. All the objects are labelled. Numerous direction-
boards assist the visitor to find his way.
To the right of the entrance are two rooms containing the
Geological Section.
The Paljeontological Museum lies also to the right, adjoining
the court. It contains fossils of the chief types of antediluvian
animals, the invertebrates (large ammonites) being to the right,
the vertebrates to the left. By the entrance - wall, Ichthyosauri