 | The University of Virginia record February, 1908 |  |
SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY.
Professor Mallet.
Mr. Sloan.
Dr. Byrnes.
Mr. Kyle.
Professor Bird.
Mr. Harris.
Mr. Mackall.
Mr. Gooch.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.
In this School the following courses are offered:
Primarily for Undergraduates.
Course 1B: General Chemistry.—Three terms, Lectures Monday,
Wednesday and Friday, 11 to 12. Laboratory six hours a week (see
schedule of studies for hours the different sections meet.) The fundamental
principles and phenomena of inorganic, organic and physical
chemistry are discussed, and the foundation of qualitative analysis are
taken up at appropriate places throughout the course. No previous
study of chemistry is demanded. Professor Bird.
Text-Books.—Remsen's College Chemistry, and Alexander Smith's General Chemistry.
For Undergraduates and Graduates.
Course 2C: Industrial Chemistry.—Professor Mallet. This course
is concerned with the applications of chemistry to the purposes of human
life. It examines in detail the chemical principles and processes specially
involved in the more important arts and manufactures.
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; Girardin's Leçons de Chimie Elémentaire appliquée aux Arts Industriels;
W. E. Roberts-Austen's Introduction to the Study of Metallurgy; Sadtler's HandBook
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
extensive and good; among the best on this side of the Atlantic.
In both courses there are one or more reviews each week of the
subjects under discussion, involving questions put by, as well as to, the
students; and exercises in writing are given out to afford practice in the
calculations which are needed by the chemist.
Course 3C: Organic Chemistry: Laboratory course. Professor
Bird. Three terms; six hours a week. The principal reactions and properties
of the different classes of compounds of carbon are studied experimentally
and the more important compounds are prepared. Two terms
of this course are taken by medical students during their first year.
Course 1B or its equivalent is a prerequisite.
Text-Book.—Remsen's Organic Chemistry.
For Graduates Only.
For admission to a Ph. D. course in the School of Chemistry 3C and
4D, the previous completion of Course 1 and Course 2C in Analytical
Chemistry, will be required; but this part of the requirement may be
waived, provided satisfactory evidence be furnished that the student has
already made equivalent attainment elsewhere.
Laboratory work will be applied to subjects involving original investigation.
It is desirable that the student shall, himself, as far as possible,
select subjects for investigation, but when he cannot do so, suitable questions
will be presented to him, and he will be encouraged to work them out
for himself, with only such aid and guidance as may prove to be indispensable.
Advanced reading may also be prescribed, especially in the
shape of the literature of particular topics, to be looked up from various
sources and condensed by the student.
Course 4D: Theoretical and Organic Chemistry.—Professor Mallet.
In this course a more advanced study is made of general chemical
theory and a detailed discussion of the compounds of carbon.
Text-Books.—Syllabus of the Professor's Lectures; Bernthsen's Organic Chemistry,
translated by G. McGowan. Recommended for reference: Roscoe and Schorlemmer's
Elements of Chemistry; Lothar Meyer's Outlines of Theoretical Chemistry
(English translation); Watt's Dictionary of Chemistry; Ernst von Meyer's History
of Chemistry.
Course 5D: Advanced Inorganic Chemistry: Laboratory course.
Professor Bird. Three terms; nine hours a week. The classes of inorganic
compounds and their principal reactions are studied experimentally,
especially those upon which Analytical Chemistry is based. This is followed
by the preparation of a number of inorganic compounds. Course
1B or its equivalent is a prerequisite.
Text-Book.—Volhard and Zimmermann's Manual, Renouf's translation.
| The University of Virginia record February, 1908 | |