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SCHOOL OF ANALYTICAL AND AGRICULTURAL
CHEMISTRY.
Prof. Mallet. Adjunct Prof. Dunnington.
Instruction in this school is given in the following courses:
In Analytical Chemistry, while the chief portion of the teaching is
necessarily personal, there are three classes:
I. The first class meets twice each week during the session, on each
occasion spending from three to four hours in practical experiments in
the laboratory. A regularly arranged course of practice in chemical
manipulation is first pursued, which is followed by a systematic course of
qualitative analysis, in which students are taught to determine, by themselves,
the constituents of substances presented to them. Special attention
is given to substances having useful applications in the arts or
connected with agriculture. In the course of this work they are familiarized
with the methods of blow-pipe analysis, and enabled to identify
minerals by their physical and blow-pipe characters, aided by other simple
chemical tests. The elements of practical assaying are taught by their
making fire assays of lead, silver, and gold ores. Toward the close of
the session, the elements of quantitative analysis are taught, as far as
the limitation of time will permit.
II. The second class have access to the laboratory for six days in
the week, during the whole of the working hours of each day. In addition
to the work of the first class, given above, they pursue an extended
course of quantitative analysis, determining the composition of
substances, such as ores, minerals, clays, soils, building-stones, manures,
technical products, etc., and are thus afforded a full course of instruction
in practical chemistry. 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, twice in the week, for two
months of the session. To this class the practical applications of chemistry
microscopical examination of animal products, urine, blood, etc.
Among the works recommended to laboratory students are: Fresenius—"Qualitative
and Quantitative Analysis;" H. Rose—"Handbuch der Analytischen Chemie" (also
in French translation); Greville Williams—"Handbook of Chemical Manipulation;"
Woehler—"Examples for Practice in Chemical Analysis;" Von Kobell—"Tafeln zur
Bestimmung der Mineralien" (also in English translation); Bolley—"Handbuch der
technisch-chemischen Untersuchungen;" Odling—"Practical Chemistry for Medical
Students;" A. H. Church—"Laboratory Guide for Agricultural Students;" A. Classen—"Elementary
Quantitative Analysis" (also in English translation).
Besides the above, there is also a class in Practical Pharmacy, specially
intended for medical students, which receives fourteen lessons during the
latter half of the session.
Text-Books.—Parrish's Pharmacy; with Wood's and Bache's "United States Dispensatory,"
for reference.
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, chemistry of the processes of vegetable life
and growth, the composition and chemical preparation of manures, etc.,
will be discussed.
Text-Books.—S. W. Johnson—"How Crops Grow," and "How Crops Feed."
For reference: J. F. W. Johnston and C. A. Cameron—"Elements of Agricultural
Chemistry and Geology" (12th edition); R. Hoffmann—"Theoretisch-praktische Ackerbauchemie;"
N. T. Lupton—"Elementary Principles of Scientific Agriculture."
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 purpose 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, etc., have been imported from
Europe in abundance.
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