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SCHOOL OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY.
Professor Dunnington.
The regular work of this School, constituting a complete course in
Practical Chemistry, is divided into two courses, as follows:
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
is first given, then Blowpipe Analysis, Fire Assaying of Ores
of Lead, 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.
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. 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 matriculate either for the first course, or for both
courses at the same time; candidates for graduation are required to
complete both courses. Those who accomplish it 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; Venable's Qualitative Analysis (2d
ed.); Greville Williams's Hand-book of Chemical Manipulation; Woehler's
Examples for Practice in Chemical Analysis; Foye's Hand-book of Mineralogy;
A. Classen's Elementary Quantitative Analysis.
PH. D.
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 for original
investigation.
It is required of those who enter this course that they shall have
previously graduated both in this School and in 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 taste 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 the summarizing of extracts from current journals, and for
all who are seeking the degree of Ph. D., a dissertation embodying the
results of some original research.
SPECIAL COURSE.
In addition to the foregoing, the following Special Course is given in
this School:
A course of twenty-four lectures on Agricultural Chemsitry,
including a discussion of the chemical and physical properties of the
atmosphere, of soils and of plants; the chemistry of the processes of
vegetable life so far as they are related to Agriculture; the chemical
composition and preparation of manures; the chemistry of stock feeding,
and so on. This course is open without charge to farmers who are
not matriculated students.
For reference: Johnston's Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, 17th Edition:
London, 1894.
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 large room assigned to Analytical Chemistry
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.
The Museum of Industrial Chemistry, contained in the same building,
consists of a very large number of specimens, collected at much
expense and pains in this country and abroad, to illustrate the products
and processes of Chemistry applied to the arts and manufactures,
and is so arranged as to be a most valuable aid to the student
of Industrial Chemistry.
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