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II. Industrial Chemistry.

This course, in which also three lectures a week are delivered, examines in
detail the chemical principles and processes specially concerned in the more
important arts and manufactures, upon which in large measure depends the
development of the natural resources of the country, the opportunity being
thus presented of preparation for such positions as those of the miner and
metallurgist, the chemical manufacturer, the dyer, bleacher, tanner, sugar
refiner, etc.

Text-book.—Wagner's Chemical Technology. Recommended for Reference: Richardson
and Watts's Chemical Technology; Muspratt's Chemistry as Applied to Arts and Manufactures;
Ure's Dictionary of Arts and Manufactures; Girardin's Leçons de Chimie Élémentaire
appliquée aux Arts Industriels; Percy's Metallurgy, etc.

The lectures in both these courses are illustrated by suitable experiments,
and by such specimens, models, drawings, etc., as the various subjects
require. 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—amongst the best on this side of the Atlantic. (See
page 68.)

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 from time to time given out to afford practice in the
calculations which are needed by the chemist.