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Class of 1877 Biological Laboratory viewed from the northwest

Class of 1877 Biological Laboratory viewed from the northwest

Princeton University. Property of the Trustees of Princeton University.

Source: Princeton University Archives, Mudd Library

With these three key buildings in place, McCosh turned to other priorities. More than a decade would pass before Princeton would commission another academic structure. Science again posed the most urgent need. By the late 1880s, the School of Science was bursting at the seams, and McCosh responded by encouraging the building of two more structures: the Class of 1877 Biological Laboratory, designed by A. Page Brown,