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SCHOOL OF ANALYTICAL AND INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY.

Professor Dunnington.

Mr. Brown.

Students taking courses in Analytical Chemistry are required to pay
a special tuition fee of $40 for each course. Each student is required also
to pay a laboratory fee of $10, and to make a deposit of $10 for one course,
or $15 for two courses, to cover the cost of apparatus.

For Undergraduates and Graduates.

Analytical Chemistry C1: Quantitative Analysis: Analytical Chemistry
B1 prerequisite.—The work of this course is also given in three lessons
a week throughout the session, each being followed by four hours or
more of practical laboratory work. 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, iron and
steel, 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.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10-11. Laboratory hours by appointment.
The laboratory is open to students six days in the week, during all the
working hours of the day. Analytical Laboratory. Professor Dunnington,
Mr. Brown.

Industrial Chemistry C1: Chemistry B1 or Analytical Chemistry B1
prerequisite.—The work of this course is given in three lectures a week
throughout the session. A detailed study is made of the chemical principles
and processes of the more important manufacturing industries, upon which,
in large measure, depend the development of the natural resources of the
country.

Among the more important subjects discussed are: the metallurgy
and uses of the principal metals and alloys, and thermit, the manufacture
of acids, alkalies, salts, explosives, glass, pottery and fertilizers: the preparation
and preservation of food, including bread, meat, sugar, etc.; the
chemical arts relating to clothing, such as bleaching, dyeing and tanning;
the chemistry of arts concerning building, including the manufacture of
brick, lime and cement; the production of artificial lights and heating;
disinfectants, soap, paper, etc.

A clear comprehension of all lines of industrial manufacture is the
aim proposed in this course, a preparation needed by students who expect
to enter upon any branch of such work. Since these lectures are designed
to give some accurate information about materials with which every one
is concerned in daily life, it is judged that they will afford a valuable addition
to a general education.

The subjects specially related to Agriculture are treated of in different
portions of this course. There is a weekly quiz and weekly written exercises
are required. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 3-4:30; Tuesday, 12-1. Analytical
Laboratory. Professor Dunnington.

Text-Books: F. H. Thorp's Outlines of Industrial Chemistry. Recommended
for reference: T. E. Thorpe's Dictionary of Applied Chemistry; W. E.
Roberts-Austen's Introduction to the Study of Metallurgy; Roger and Aubert's
Industrial Chemistry; Sadtler's Hand-Book of Industrial Organic Chemistry, etc.
H. K. Benson's Industrial Chemistry for Engineering Students.

The collections of the University in illustration of the processes and
products of Industrial Chemistry have been procured at much expense and
pains in this country, England, France, and Germany, and are unusually
extensive and good, being among the best on this side of the Atlantic.

Students who accomplish the work of Analytical Chemistry B1 and
C1, and Industrial Chemistry C1, together with Chemistry B1, B2, C1, are
prepared for entering upon work in these several lines of industry.

For Graduates.

Analytical Chemistry D1: Analytical Chemistry B1 and C1, Industrial
Chemistry C1, and Chemistry B1, B2, and C1, or the equivalent, prerequisite.—This
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.

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
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. Professor Dunnington.

The Analytical 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 main working-room is furnished with worktables,
gas, water, and all proper fixtures; smaller rooms are devoted to
weighing, evaporations, assaying, etc.