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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 six 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, twice in the week
for two 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—Qualitative
and Quantitative Analysis; H. Rose—Handbuch
der analytischen Chemie (also in French translation); Greville Williams—Handbook
of Chemical Manipulation; Wöhler—Examples
for Practice in Chemical Analysis; Von Kobell—Tafeln zur Restimmung
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.

Beside the above there will also be a class in Practical Pharmacy,
specially intended for medical students, which will receive twelve
lessons during the latter half of the session.

Text-Book.—Parrish's Pharmacy.

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. Hoffman—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.