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SCHOOL OF GENERAL AND INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY.

Prof. Mallet.

In this School there are two courses, as follows:

I. General Chemistry.

This 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' Chemistry (last edition). Recommended for reference.—Roscoe
and Schorlemmer's (or Miller's) Elements of Chemistry; A. Naquet's 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, examines
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-book.—Wagner's Chemical Technology. Recommended 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's Leons de Chimie Èlémentaire
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 68.)

In both courses there are one or more reviews each week of the subjects
under discussion, involving questions put by, as well as to, the
students; and exercises in writing are from time to time given out to
afford practice in the calculations which are needed by the chemist.