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Professor Bird's Courses in Chemistry.

The new department will be under the
direction of Professor R. M. Bird, formerly
professor of chemistry in the University
of Missouri. It takes over the work
in general chemistry heretofore offered
by Professor Mallet to candidates for the
B. A. and engineering degrees, and gives
new courses not previously offered at the
University.

The number of students and other considerations
have led to the separation of
the general chemistry instruction into
two courses—one for B. A. students and
one for engineering students. Each
course will hereafter consist of three lectures
and six hours laboratory work per
week throughout the session. In the
main the two courses will be alike; and
they will be coordinate with Professor
Mallet's M. A. and industrial chemistry
courses, as well as with the analytical
work offered by Professor Dunnington
and the new advanced work offered by
Professor Bird.

The essential features of the new work
will be the large proportion of laboratory
instruction and the differentiation in the
work done by engineering students, especially
in the laboratory, where the
chemistry of materials of construction
will be used as much as possible in teaching
the essentials of general chemistry.

Hereafter medical students must have
already completed the equivalent of the
above B. A. course in general chemistry
before matriculation, and will afterwards
take a course offered by Professor Mallet
and a laboratory course in organic chemistry
offered by Professor Bird.