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SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY.
Professor Mallet.
In this School the following courses are offered:
General Chemistry.—This course consists of three lectures a week
throughout the session. The fundamental ideas of chemical science, the relations
of Chemistry to Physics, the laws expressing the facts of chemical
combination by weight and by volume, the atomic theory as at present developed
in connection with Chemistry, the chemical nomenclature and symbols
now in use, and a general survey of the Descriptive Chemistry of the
elements and their compounds, inorganic and organic, are brought forward
in order, with incidental allusion to the applications in the arts and manufactures
of the facts mentioned.
Text-Books.—Fownes's Chemistry (last edition); Syllabus of the Professor's Lectures.
Recommended for Reference.—Roscoe and Schorlemmer's (or Miller's) Elements of
Chemistry; Lothar Meyer's Outlines of Theoretical Chemistry (English translation);
Bernthsen's Text-book of Organic Chemistry, translated by McGowan; Watt's Dictionary
of Chemistry.
Industrial Chemistry.—This course, in which also three lectures a week
are delivered, examines in detail the chemical principles and processes
specially concerned in the more important arts and manufactures, upon
which the development of the natural resources of the country in large measure
depends, the opportunity being thus presented of preparation for such
positions as those of the miner and metallurgist, the chemical manufacturer,
the dyer, bleacher, tanner, sugar-refiner, etc.
Text-Book.—Wagner's Chemical Technology. Recommended for Reference.—Richardson
and Watts's Chemical Technology; Muspratt's Chemistry as Applied to Arts and
Manufactures; Ure's Dictionary of Arts and Manufactures; Girardin's Leçons de Chimie
Élémentaire appliquée aux Arts Industriels; Percy's Metallurgy, etc.
The lectures in both courses are illustrated by suitable experiments, and
by such specimens, models, drawings, etc., as the various subjects require.
of Industrial Chemistry have been procured at much expense and pains in
this country, England, France and Germany, and are unusually extensive
and good; amongst the best on this side of the Atlantic.
In both courses there are one or more reviews each week of the subjects
under discussion, involving questions put by, as well as to, the students; and
exercises in writing are from time to time given out to afford practice in the
calculations which are needed by the chemist.
Post-Graduate work is offered in either course, and either or both may
be taken by the candidate for the Ph. D. degree. Laboratory work will be
required on subjects involving original investigation. Advanced reading
may also be prescribed, especially in the shape of the literature of particular
topics, to be looked up from various sources and condensed by the student.
Graduation in General Chemistry is required for the B. A. degree, graduation
in both General and Industrial Chemistry for the M. A. For admission
to a post-graduate course in the School of Chemistry or in the School of
Analytical Chemistry, previous graduation in both the schools named will be
required; but this part of the requirement may be waived, provided satisfactory
evidence be furnished that the student has already made equivalent
attainments elsewhere.
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