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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.