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BUILDINGS AND EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES 59
DABNEY HALL OF THE HUMANITIES
Through the generous gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Dabney,
a Hall of the Humanities was completed in September, 1928. It
is a three-story building, located to the east of the Gates Chemical
Laboratory, with its main entrance facing the plaza. The building
contains provision for various undergraduate activities, lecture
rooms, a treasure room for the exhibition of pictures and
other works of art, a library-reading room, conference rooms and
studies, and in the east wing a very attractive lounge, on the
- north side _ of which a series of windows open out upon a tiled
patio and an ornamental garden.
CULBERTSON HALL
Culbertson Hall, a beautiful auditorium seating 500 persons,
erected in 1922, provides facilities for the Institute assemblies,
lectures, and concerts, as well as for various social functions both
of sil;udents and faculty. It was named in honor of the late
Mr. James A. Culbertson, who was a trustee of the Institute and
Vice-President of the Board during the years 1908 to 1915.
SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY
The Seismological Research Laboratory is located on a site
west of the Arroyo Seco. In it are carried on studies on earth
movements. The general program of research is outlined by the
Committee on Seismology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington'
of which Dr. Arthur L. Day, director of its Geophysical
Laboratory, is chairman. Mr. Harry O. Wood is in immediate
charge of the investigations; and with him cooperate Dr. J. A.
Anderson, of the Mt. Wilson Observatory, and Prof. John P.
Buwalda, of the geological department of the Institute.
THE WILLIAM G. KERCKHOFF LABORATORIES
OF THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
The first building of the William G. Kerckhofl' Laboratories
of the Biological Sciences, the present quarters of the department,
contains over 60 rooms, including lecture rooms, seminar
rooms, undergraduate laboratories, private research rooms, and