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SCHOOL OF ANALYTICAL AND INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY.

Professor Dunnington.

Mr. Dinwiddie.

Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.

The regular work of this school, constituting a complete course
in Practical Chemistry, is divided into three courses, as follows:

For Undergraduates.

Course B1: Qualitative Analysis: This course consists of three
lessons a week throughout the session, after each of which the students
spend three or four hours in practical experiments in the Laboratory.
A course in Chemical manipulation is first given, then Blowpipe
Analysis, recognition of Ores, Fire Assaying of Ores of Lead,
Gold, and Silver, and a systematic course in Inorganic Qualitative
Analysis, followed by practice in analysis of salts, alloys, and ores,
the examination of potable water, coal, limestone, clay and so on,
including some simpler quantitative determinations. Weekly written
exercises are required. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 6 session-hours.)
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 10-11. Laboratory hours by appointment.
Analytical Laboratory. Professor Dunnington, Mr. Dinwiddie.

For Graduates and Undergraduates.

Course C1: Quantitative Analysis: Course B1 Anal. is prerequisite.
—The work of this course is also given in three lessons a week
throughout the session, each being followed by four hours ro more
of practical laboratory work. After some training in manipulation
and gravimetric estimations, the class pursues volumetric estimations
and a full course in Quantitative 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. Dinwiddie.

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; J. H. Long's Qualitative Analysis
(3d ed.); Greville William's Hand-book of Chemical Manipulation; Wochler's Examples
for Practice in Chemical Analysis; and Assaying Notes of the Professor.

Course C2: 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, upon which, in large measure,
depend the development of the natural resources of the country.

Among the more important subjects discussed are: the metal
lurgy and uses 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; disinfectants, soap, paper, etc.

A clear comprehension of all lines of Industrial manufacture
is the aim proposed in this course, a preparation needed by students
who expect to enter upon any branch of such work. Since these
lectures are designed to give some accurate information about materials
with which every one is concerned in daily life, it is judged
that they will afford a valuable addition to a general education.

The subjects specially related to Agriculture are treated 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
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 B1, C1, C2, in this
school, together with chemistry B1, B2, C1, are prepared for entering
upon work in these several lines of industry.

Primarily for Graduates.

Course D1: Advanced Analytical Chemistry.—This graduate
course is designed for those seeking the degree of Ph. D., and also
for such students as desire to increase the range of their experience
as analysts, and to cultivate their powers of original investigation.

It is required for those who enter this course that they shall
have previously completed courses B1, C1, C2 in this School and
Courses B1, B2, and C1 in the School of Chemistry, or that they shall
have previously made equivalent attainments elsewhere.

Laboratory work will be conducted daily, and suggestions and
due assistance will be given in its prosecution.

While the work is adapted to the special aims or tastes of each
student, it will in all cases comprise some practice in the more
elaborate processes of analysis, ultimate and proximate organic
analysis, some study in analytical methods and some original problems,
also the reading and the summarizing of extracts from current
journals, and, for all who are seeking the degree of Ph. D., a dissertation
embodying the results of some original research. Professor
Dunnington.

The Analytical 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 main working room is
furnished with work-tables, gas, water, and all proper fixtures;
smaller rooms are devoted to weighing, evaporations, assaying, etc.