SCHOOL OF GENERAL AND INDUSTRIAL
CHEMISTRY.
Professor Mallet.
In this school there are two courses, as follows:
I. General Chemistry.
This course consists of three lectures a week throughout the session. The
fundamental ideas of chemical science, the relations of Chemistry to Physics,
the laws regulating chemical combination by weight and by volume, the
atomic theory as at present viewed in connection with Chemistry, the chemical
nomenclature and symbols now in use, and a general survey of the
descriptive chemistry of the elements and their compounds, inorganic and
organic, are brought forward in order, with incidental allusion to the applications
in medicine, the arts and manufactures, of the facts mentioned.
Text-book.—Fownes's Chemistry (last edition). Recommended for reference: Roscoe
and Schorlemmer's (or Miller's) Elements of Chemistry; Watt's Dictionary of Chemistry.
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 the development of the natural
resources of the country in large measure depends, 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: áichardson
and Watt's Chemical Technology; Muspratt's Chemistry as Applied to Arts and Manufactures;
Ure's Dictionary of Arts and Manufactures; Girardin's Léâons de Chimie Elémentaire
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.
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.
In the course of Chemistry for the B. A. degree, the lectures on Chemical
Physics may be omitted by the student.
