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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-books:—Wagner's Chemical Technology. For reference:—Richardson and
Watt's Chemical Technology; Muspratt's Chemistry as Applied to Arts and Manufactures;
Ure's Dictionary of Arts and Manufactures; Girardin—"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 with
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 63.)

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.