SPECIAL COURSES.
In addition to the foregoing, the following Special Courses are given in this
School. They are open without additional charge to the regular students of the
School. For fees to others, see Expenses.
1. A laboratory course of twelve lessons in Practical Pharmacy, including the
compounding and dispensing of drugs. The pursuit of this course will enable the
practitioner satisfactorily to dispense medicines, and it will afford him needed
familiarity with handling chemicals and the forms of prescriptions.
2. A course of twenty-four lectures on Agricultural Chemistry, 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 students
from Virginia and 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-rooms 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
will accommodate fifty working students, and is furnished with 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 purchase and impor-
tation.
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 manufacturers, and is so arranged as to be a most valuable aid to
the student of Industrial Chemistry.
