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SCHOOL OF GENERAL AND INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY.

Prof. Mallet.

In this School are two courses, as follows:

I. General Chemistry.

The course consists of three lectures a week throughout the session.
The fundamental ideas of chemical science, the relations of Chemistry
to Physics, the laws regulating chemical combination by weight and by
volume, the atomic theory as at present viewed 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 medicine, the arts and manufactures,
of the facts mentioned.

Text-books:—Fownes's Chemistry, (last edition.) For reference:—Miller's, or
Roscoe & Schorlemmer's Elements of Chemistry; A. Naquet—"Principes de Chimie
fondée sur les théories modernes"; Watt's Dictionary of Chemistry.

II. Industrial Chemistry.

This course, in which also three lectures a week are delivered, investigates
in detail the chemical principles and processes specially concerned
in the more important arts and manufactures, upon which in large
measure depends the development of the natural resources of the country,
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-books:—Wagner's Chemical Technology. For reference:—Richardson and
Watt's Chemical Technology; Muspratt's Chemistry as Applied to Arts and Manufactures;
Ure's Dictionary of Arts and Manufactures; Girardin—"Leçons de Chimie
Élémentaire appliquée aux Arts Industriels;" Percy's Metallurgy, etc.

The lectures in both these courses are illustrated by suitable experiments,
and by such specimens, models, drawings, etc., as the various
subjects require. The collections of the University in illustration of the
processes and products of Industrial Chemistry have been procured with
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. (See page 55.)