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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.