 | University of Virginia March, 1907 |  |
SCHOOL OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY.
| Professor Dunnington. | Mr. Sloan. |
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination. The regular work of this School, constituting a
complete course in Practical Chemistry, is divided into two courses, as
follows:
Primarily for Undergraduates.
Course 1: This course consists of three lessons a week throughout
the session, on each occasion the student spending three or four hours in
practical experiments in the Laboratory. A course in Chemical manipulation
Gold, and Silver, and a systematic course in Inorganic Qualitative Analysis,
followed by practice in analysis of salts, alloys, and ores, determination
of minerals and the examination of potable water, coal, clay, and so on,
together with some simpler quantitative determinations. Weekly written
exercises are required.
For Undergraduates and Graduates.
Course 2: The work of the second course is also given in three
lessons a week throughout the session, each being followed by four hours
or more of practical laboratory work. This course is primarily one in
Quantitative Analysis. After some training in manipulation and gravimetric
estimations, the class pursues volumetric estimations and a full
course in Quantitative Analysis of minerals, ores, coal, soil, technical
products, and so on. Weekly written exercises are required. As the
student advances in the course he is encouraged to undertake original
research and assist in its prosecution; and in determining his fitness for
graduation, work of this kind is considered as having much weight.
The Laboratory is open to students six days in the week, during all
the working hours of the day.
Students may register either for the first course, or for both courses
at the same time; candidates for the M. A. elective are required to complete
both courses. Those who accomplish this are prepared for work as
Analytical Chemists, Assayers, Druggists, or Teachers of Chemistry.
Among the works recommended to laboratory students are: Fresenius's
Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis, A. I. Cohn; Olsen's Quantitative
Chemical Analysis; Venable's Qualitative Analysis (3d ed.); Greville William's
Hand-Book of Chemical Manipulation; Woehler's Examples for Practice in
Chemical Analysis; Foye's Hand-Book of Mineralogy.
A course of lectures in Agricultural Chemistry is given in this School
(see p. 206).
For Graduates Only.
The graduate course is designed for those seeking the degree of Ph. D.,
and also for such students as desire to increase the range of their experience
as analysts, and to cultivate their powers of original investigation.
It is required of those who enter this course that they shall have
previously completed Courses 1 and 2, both in this School and in that
of General Chemistry, or that they shall have previously made equivalent
attainments elsewhere.
Laboratory work will be conducted daily, and suggestions and due
assistance will be given in its prosecution.
While the work is adapted to the special aims or tastes of each
student, it will in all cases comprise some practice in the more elaborate
processes of analysis, ultimate and proximate organic analysis, some study
in analytical methods and some original problems, also the reading and
seeking the degree of Ph. D., a dissertation embodying the results of some
original research.
The Chemical Laboratory is a building planned and erected for the
purpose. It is warmed throughout by hot water, completely fitted with
the most approved appliances, and stocked with apparatus, models, materials,
and specimens. The commodious lecture-room, with work and
store-room attached, is provided with every convenience for exhibiting a
complete series of experiments illustrating the lectures on General Chemistry.
The Laboratory will accommodate forty working students, and is
furnished with work-tables, gas, water, and all proper laboratory fixtures;
smaller rooms are devoted to weighing, evaporations, assaying, etc., and
all requisite apparatus, chemicals, minerals, materials for analysis, etc.,
are kept constantly supplied by home purchases and importation.
| University of Virginia March, 1907 | |