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SCHOOL OF GENERAL AND INDUSTRIAL
CHEMISTRY.

Professor Mallet.

In this School the following courses are offered:

The course in General Chemistry consists of three lectures a week,
throughout the session, to each of two classes, the one formed of the

academic and the other of the medical students taking the course. The
fundamental ideas of chemical science, the relations of Chemistry to
Physics, the laws expressing the facts of 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 the arts and manufactures,
and in medicine, of the facts mentioned.

Text-books.—Fownes's Chemistry (last edition); Syllabus of the Professor's
Lectures. Recommended for Reference.—Roscoe and Schorlemmer's (or Miller's)
Elements of Chemistry; Bernthsen's Text-book of Organic Chemistry, translated
by McGowan; Watts's Dictionary of Chemistry.

The course in Industrial Chemistry, 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 the development of the natural resources of the
country in large measure depends, 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. Recommended for Reference.—
Richardson and Watts's Chemical Technology; Muspratt's Chemistry as Applied
to Arts and Manufactures; Ure's Dictionary of Arts and Manufactures; Girardin's
Léçons 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
at 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.

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.

In this School a candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Arts is
required to pass examination in General Chemistry, graduates in
Physics being permitted, however, to omit the work in Chemical
Physics. A candidate for the degree of Master of Arts is required

to pass examination in both General and Industrial Chemistry. A
candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy must in addition
complete the Graduate Course.

The Graduate Course will consist of laboratory work on subjects
of original investigation. Advanced reading may also be prescribed,
especially in the shape of the literature of particular topics, to be
looked up from various sources and condensed by the student.

For admission to a Graduate Course in the School of General and
Industrial Chemistry, or in the School of Analytical and Agricultural
Chemistry, previous graduation in both the schools named will be
required; but this part of the requirement may be waived, provided
satisfactory evidence be furnished that the student has already made
equivalent attainments elsewhere.