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SCHOOL OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY.

Professor Dunnington.

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
two courses, as follows:

Primarily for Undergraduates.

Course 1: 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, 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, determination
of minerals and the examination of potable water, coal, limestone,
clay, and so on, together with some simpler quantitative determinations.
Weekly written exercises are required.

For Undergraduates and Graduates.

Course 2C: The work of the second course is also given in three
lessons a week throughout the session, each being followed by four hours
or more of practical laboratory work. This course is primarily one in
Quantitative Analysis. 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.

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.

A course of lectures in Agricultural Chemistry is given in this
School (see p. 222).

For Graduates Only.

The 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 of those who enter this course that they shall have previously
completed Courses 1 and 2C, in this School, and Courses 1B, 2C,
3C, and 4D in that of General 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.

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 storeroom
attached, is provided with every convenience for exhibiting a complete
series of experiments illustrating the lectures on General Chemistry.
The Analytical Laboratory will accommodate forty 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 purchases and importation.