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SCHOOL OF ANALYTICAL AND AGRICULTURAL
CHEMISTRY.

Prof. Mallet.

Adjunct Prof. Dunnington.

In Analytical Chemistry there are three classes:

I. The first class meets twice each week during the session, on
each occasion spending from two to four hours in practical experiment
in the laboratory. A regularly arranged course of practice in
chemical manipulation is first pursued; qualitative analysis is then
taken up, and the means of detecting the most important chemical
substances having been learned, students are required to find out for
themselves, by analysis, the constituents of unknown materials presented
to them. Special attention is given to substances having useful
applications in the arts or connected with agriculture. Towards
the close of the session the elements of quantitative analysis are
taught, so far as the limitation of time will permit.

II. The laboratory will be open to the second class on five days of
each week during the whole of the working hours of each day. A
full course of instruction in practical chemistry, including the qualitative
and quantitative analysis of ores, soils, manures, technical products,
&c., will be given; and students will be assisted and encouraged
to undertake original research.

III. The third class is one specially intended for students of medicine,
and will meet for lessons of two hours each, once in the week for four

months of the session. To this class the practical applications of
chemistry to medicine will be taught, the detection of poisons, chemical
and microscopical examination of animal products, urine, blood,
&c.

Among the works recommended to laboratory students are: Fresenius
— Quantative and Quantitative Analysis; H. Rose — Handbuch der
analytischen Chemie (also in French translation); Geville Williams —
Handbook of Chemical Manipulation; Wöhler— Examples for Practice in
Chemical Analysis; Bolley — Handbuch der technisch-chemischen Untersuchungen;
Oding — Practical Chemistry for Medical Students; A. H.
Church — Laboratory Guide for Agricultural Students.

In Agricultural Chemistry there is one class, to which lectures are
delivered once a week throughout the session; or, when found more
convenient to students of agriculture, a larger number of lectures per
week will be given during a part of the year only.

In this course the chemical and physical properties of soils, of the
atmosphere, and of plants, the chemistry of the processes of vegetable
life and growth, the composition and chemical preparation of manures,
&c., will be discussed.

Text Books — S. W. Johnson — How Crops Grow, and How Crops
Feed. For reference, J. F. W. Johnston — Agricultural Chemistry, R.
Homan — Theoretisch-praktische Ackerbauchemie.

Farmers who are not regular students of the University, but may
desire to attend this special course, are freely invited to do so.

Very liberal provision has been made in the way of material arrangements
for the teachings of this Chair. A new laboratory building of
ample size, specially designed for the purposes of working students, has
been erected containing all necessary rooms, fitted with double windows
for the preservation of uniform temperature, and amply supplied with
gas, water and all proper laboratory fixtures; and all needful apparatus,
chemicals, minerals, materials for analysis, &c., have been imported
from Europe in abundance.