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Course 2C: Quantitative Analysis: Course 1B is prerequisite.—The
work of this course is also given in three lessons a week throughout
the session, each being followed by four hours or more of practical
laboratory work. After some training in manipulation and gravimetric
estimations, the class pursues volumetric estimations and a


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full course in Quantitave Analysis of minerals, ores, coal, soil, iron
and steel, technical products, and so on. Weekly written exercises
are required. As the student advances in the course he is encouraged
to undertake original research and assist in its prosecution; and
in determining his fitness for graduation, work of this kind is considered
as having much weight. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10-11.
Laboratory hours by appointment. Analytical Laboratory. Professor
Dunnington, Mr. Woodson.

The Laboratory is open to students six days in the week, during
all the working hours of the day.

Students may register either for the first course, or for both
courses at the same time; candidates for the M. A. elective are required
to complete both courses. Those who accomplish this are
prepared for work as Analytical Chemists, Assayers, Druggists, or
Teachers of Chemistry.

Among the works recommended to laboratory students are: Fresenius' Qualitative
and Quantitative Analysis, A. I. Cohn; Olsen's Quantitative Chemical Analysis;
Venable's Qualitative Analysis (3d ed.); Greville William's Hand-book of Chemical
Manipulation; Woehler's Examples for Practice in Chemical Analysis; Foye's HandBook
of Mineralogy.

Course 3C: Industrial Chemistry.—The work of this course is
given in three lectures a week throughout the session. A detailed
study is made of the chemical principles and processes of the more important
manufacturing industries of human life, upon which, in large
measure, depend the development of the natural resources of the
country.

Among the more important subjects discussed are: the metallurgy
of the principal METALS, the manufacture of acids, alkalies, salts, glass,
pottery and fertilizers; the preparation and preservation of FOOD, including
bread, meat, sugar, etc., the chemical arts relating to CLOTHING
such as bleaching, dyeing and tanning; the chemistry of arts concerning
BUILDING, including the manufacture of brick, lime and cement;
the production of artificial lights and heating; soap, paper, etc.

The subjects specially related to Agriculture are treated of in
different portions of this course. There is a weekly quiz and occasional
written exercises are required. Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
3-4. Analytical Laboratory. Professor Dunnington.

Text-Books.—F. H. Thorp's Outlines of Industrial Chemistry; Huntington &
McMillan's Metals, their Properties and Treatment. Recommended for reference:
Richardson and Watt's Chemical Technology; T. E. Thorpe's Dictionary of Applied
Chemistry; W. E. Roberts-Austen's Introduction to the Study of Metallurgy; Sadtler's
Hand-Book of Industrial Organic Chemistry, etc.

The collections of the University in illustration of the processes
and products of Industrial Chemistry have been procured at much


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expense and pains in this country, England, France, and Germany,
and are unusually extensive and good; among the best on this side
of the Atlantic.

Students who accomplish the work of classes 1B, 2C and 3C, together
with chemistry 1B, 2B and 3C are prepared for entering upon
work in these several lines of industry.