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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-book.—Fownes's Chemistry (last edition). Recommended for reference: Roscoe
and Schorlemmer's (or Miller's) Elements of Chemistry; Watt's Dictionary of Chemistry.