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X.—ANALYTICAL AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY.

PROFESSOR JOHN W. MALLET.

This school having been created recently, in order to carry
out a part of the design of the board of Visitors, in reference
to the growing demand for scientific knowledge in its applicatons
to the useful arts, the endeavor will be made to render
the teachings of the chair as practical as possible, while
basing them upon sound principles of general science.

A course of lectures will be given, extending through the
session, on Chemistry in its applications to Agriculture, Metallurgy,
Heating and Illumination, Dyeing, Bleaching, Disinfecting,
Tanning, Distillation, the manufacture of Acids, Alkalies,
Salts, Manures, Soap and Candles, Sugar, Perfumes, Essences,
Matches, Glass, Porcelain, &c.

These lectures will be illustrated by suitable experimental
demonstrations and such specimens, models, drawings, &c., as
the subjects may require. The fee for this course will be the
same as in the other schools—$25.

A separate system of Laboratory Instruction in Practical
and Analytical Chemistry will also be established, with the
following three courses:

1. A full course of instruction for such students as may
desire to devote themselves especially to Quantitative Analysis—fee
$100, and a charge of $25 for Laboratory Material
consumed.

2. A course of elementary instruction in practical Chemistry
and general Chemical Analysis, especially with reference
to technical applications—fee $50, and a charge of $10 for Laboratory
Material consumed.

3. A special course, for such Medical students as may desire
to pursue it, of sixteen (16) lessons in the practical applications
of Chemistry to Medicine (the detection of poisons,
Chemical and Microscopical examination of animal products,
urine, blood, &c.,)—fee $20, and a charge of $5 for Laboratory
Material consumed.

Other special courses of Laboratory instruction may be organized—as,
for example, in assaying, Agricultural and Technical
Analysis of a more advanced character, &c.,—as the demands
for such may arise.

Each Laboratory student—in whatever course of instruction—will
be required to furnish himself with the more common
and generally necessary articles of apparatus. The cost
of a suitable set need not exceed $15.