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SCHOOL OF ANALYTICAL AND AGRICULTURAL
CHEMISTRY AND PHARMACY.

Professor Dunnington.

The regular work of this School, constituting a complete course in
Practical Chemistry, is arranged in two divisions, as follows:

1. A regularly-arranged course in Chemical Manipulation is first
given. This is followed by Blowpipe Analysis and Fire Assays of
ores of lead, silver and gold. A systematic course in Inorganic Qualitative
Analysis follows, with practice in the analysis of mixtures of
salts, alloys, ores, and so on. Instruction in the elements of Quantitative
Analysis completes this division of the course, which extends over
the first half session.

2. The work of the second division is an extended course of Quantitative
Analysis, both gravimetric and volumetric. The student determines
the composition of ores, minerals, clays, soils, manures, technical
products, and so on. As he advances in the course he is encouraged
to undertake original research and assisted in its prosecution; and in
determining his fitness for graduation, work of this sort is considered
as having great weight.

Five lessons are given each week, and the Laboratory is open to
students six days in the week during all the working hours of the day.

Students may matriculate either for the Full Course or for the First
Course, but candidates for graduation are required to complete the

Full Course. Those who accomplish it are prepared for work as Analytical
Chemists, Assayers, or Teachers of Chemistry.

Among the works recommended to laboratory students are: Fresenius's Qualitative
and Quantitative Analysis; Greville Williams's Hand-Book of Chemical
Manipulation; Woehler's Examples for Practice in Chemical Analysis; Foye's
Hand-Book of Mineralogy; A. Classen's Elementary Quantitative Analysis.

In addition to the foregoing the following Special Courses are
given in this School. They are open without additional charge to the
regular students of the School. For fees to others, see Expenses.

1. A laboratory course on Determinative Mineralogy for students
of Engineering, embracing Blowpipe Analysis, Determinative Mineralogy,
and the application of chemical processes to the examination
of potable waters, coal, clays, building-stones, and other materials
employed in Engineering.

2. A laboratory course in Assaying, including all of the above-mentioned
course on determinative mineralogy, together with Fire Assaying
of ores of lead, silver, gold, etc., and practice in volumetric and
galvanic determinations, such as are commonly employed in the valuation
of certain technical products and ores.

3. A laboratory course of twelve lessons in Practical Pharmacy,
including the compounding and dispensing of drugs.

4. A lecture course of twenty-four lessons on Agricultural Chemistry,
including the chemical and physical properties of the atmosphere,
of soils and of plants; the chemistry of the processes of vegetable
life; the chemical composition and preparation of manures, and
so on. This course is open without charge to farmers.

For Reference.—Johnson's and Cameron's Elements of Agricultural Chemistry
and Geology (12th ed.); Johnson's How Crops Grow; Johnson's How Crops Feed.

The Graduate Course comprises practice in the more elaborate processes
of analysis, study of methods, and original investigations in the
composition of rare minerals and technical products presenting scientific
or economic interest.

The Chemical Laboratory is a building planned and erected for
the purpose. It is completely fitted with the most approved appliances,
and stocked with apparatus, models, materials and specimens.
The commodious lecture-room, with work and store-rooms attached, is
provided with every convenience for exhibiting a complete series of
experiments illustrating the lectures on General Chemistry. The large
room assigned to Analytical Chemistry will accommodate fifty working
students, and is furnished with work-tables, gas, water and all

proper laboratory fixtures; smaller rooms are devoted to weighing,
evaporations, assaying, etc., and all requisite apparatus, chemicals,
minerals, materials for analysis, etc., are kept constantly supplied by
home purchase and importation.

The Museum of Industrial Chemistry, contained in the same
building, consists of a very large number of specimens, collected at
much expense and pains in this country and abroad, to illustrate the
products and processes of Chemistry applied to the arts and manufactures,
and is so arranged as to be a most valuable aid to the student of
Industrial Chemistry.