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I. Analytical Chemistry.
Instruction in this subject is given largely by lectures and experiments,
and the student is required to repeat the latter at his working table; this
is supplemented by much individual teaching, according to the capabilities
and aims of the student.
The First Class meets in the laboratory five times a week during the
first half of the session; or, when judged best, twice a week throughout
the session, on each occasion spending, after the lecture, from three to
four hours in practical experiments. A regularly arranged course of
practice in chemical manipulation is first pursued. This is followed by
Blowpipe Analysis and Fire Assay of lead, silver, and gold ores. A
systematic course in inorganic Qualitative Analysis is then taken up, in
salts, alloys, ores, etc. Instruction is also given in Determinative Mineralogy.
Toward the close of the course, the elements of Quantitative
Analysis are taught.
The Second Class have access to the laboratory six days of each
week throughout the session, during the whole of the working hours of
each day. After having accomplished the entire work of the first class
as given above, it pursues an extended course of Quantitative Analysis,
both gravimetric and volumetric, determining the composition of ores,
minerals, clays, soils, building-stones, manures, technical products, and
like substances, and involving a full course of practical chemistry, therein
receiving practical preparation for the pursuit of analytical chemist and
assayer, or of teaching chemistry. Students are assisted and encouraged
to undertake original research, and work of this nature will be considered
with much weight in ascertaining their fitness for graduation.
The third class is intended for students of medicine. (See page 43.)
Among the works recommended to laboratory students are: Fresenius—"Qualitative
and Quantitative Analysis;" Greville Williams—"Handbook of Chemical Manipulation;"
Woehler—"Examples for Practice in Chemical Analysis;" Von Kobell—
"Tafeln zur Bestimmung der Mineralien" (also in English translation); Odling—
"Practical Chemistry for Medical Students;" A. Classen—"Elementary Quantitative
Analysis."
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