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Lectures.
In connection with this course there is but one class, the students
attending which hear three lectures each week throughout the
session.
Amongst the more prominent subjects discussed are: The production
of Materials of very general application, including the Metallurgy
of Iron, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Tin, Silver, Gold, &c., the preparation
and properties of Alloys, and the processes of Electro-Metallurgy,
the manufacture upon the large scale of Acids, Alkalies, Salts, Glass
and Porcelain; the production and preservation of Food, including
the Chemistry of Agriculture, the processes of Bread Making, Wine
Making, Brewing and Distilling, the Manufacture of Sugar and
Vinegar, the curing of Meat, the examination of Potable Water, &c.;
Chemical Arts relating to Clothing, such as Bleaching, Dyeing, Calico
Printing, Tanning, and the preparation of India Rubber; the Chemistry
of those arts which afford us Shelter, embracing the examination
of Building Materials, Lime Burning, the manufacture of Mortar and
Cements, the Explosive Agents used in blasting, as Gunpowder, Gun
Cotton, Nitro-Glycerine, &c., Paints and Varnishes, Disinfecting
Materials, &c.; Heating and Ventilation, the different kinds of Fuel
and modes of burning them; Illumination by artificial means,
Candles, Lamps, the preparation of Petroleum, the manufacture of
Illuminating Gas, Matches; the Chemistry of Washing, the preparation
of Soap, Starch and Perfumes; the Chemical relations of
Printing and Writing, the manufacture of Paper, Ink, Artists' Colors,
Photographic Materials, &c.
The lectures are illustrated by suitable experiments, and by such
specimens, models, drawings, &c., as the various subjects require.
Amongst books which can be usefully referred to in connection with
as Applied to Arts and Manufactures; Richardson and Watts —
Chemical Technology; Ure — Dictionary of Arts and Manufactures;
Dumas — Traité de Chimie Appliquée aux Arts; Wagner — Die chemische
Technologie; Johnston — Agricultural Chemistry; R. Hoffman
— Theoretisch-pracktische Ackerbauchemie.
The subjects germane to Agriculture are treated of at different
periods of the lecture course, and cannot well be brought together
with a due regard to system, but the discussion more particularly of
soils, manures, &c., will be brought forward in January or February
(this year in February), with a view to the convenience of farmers or
others, not regular students of the University, who may desire to attend
this portion of the course separately. Such persons are freely
invited to thus temporarily join the class for the purpose in question.
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