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SPECIAL COURSE.
In addition to the foregoing, the following Special Course is given in
this School:
A course of twenty-four lectures on Agricultural Chemsitry,
including a discussion of the chemical and physical properties of the
atmosphere, of soils and of plants; the chemistry of the processes of
vegetable life so far as they are related to Agriculture; the chemical
composition and preparation of manures; the chemistry of stock feeding,
and so on. This course is open without charge to farmers who are
not matriculated students.
For reference: Johnston's Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, 17th Edition:
London, 1894.
The Chemical Laboratory is a building planned and erected for the
purpose. It is warmed throughout by hot water, completely fitted
with the most approved appliances, and stocked with apparatus,
models, materials, and specimens. The commodious lecture-room, with
work and store-room attached, is provided with every convenience
for exhibiting a complete series of experiments illustrating the lectures
on General Chemistry. The large room assigned to Analytical Chemistry
work-tables, gas, water, and all proper laboratory fixtures; smaller
rooms are devoted to weighing, evaporations, assaying, etc., and all
requisite apparatus, chemicals, minerals, materials for analysis, etc.,
are kept constantly supplied by home purchases and importation.
The Museum of Industrial Chemistry, contained in the same building,
consists of a very large number of specimens, collected at much
expense and pains in this country and abroad, to illustrate the products
and processes of Chemistry applied to the arts and manufactures,
and is so arranged as to be a most valuable aid to the student
of Industrial Chemistry.
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