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SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY.
Professor Mallet.
In this School the following courses are offered:
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 expressing the facts of chemical combination
by weight and by volume, the atomic theory as at present developed 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;
Lothar Meyer's Outlines of Theoretical Chemistry (English trans.); Bernthsen's
Text-book of Organic Chemistry, translated by McGowan; Watts's Dictionary of Chemistry.
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 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 manufacture, the dyer, bleacher, tanner,
sugar-refiner, etc.
Text-Book.—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 Leçons de Chimie
Élémentaire appliquée aux Arts Industriels; Percy's Metallurgy, etc.
The lectures in both 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.
Post-Graduate work is offered in either course, and either or both may
be taken by the candidate for the Ph. D. degree. Laboratory work will be required
on subjects involving original investigation. Advanced reading may
to be looked up from various sources and condensed by the student.
Graduation in General Chemistry is required for the B. A. degree, graduation
in both General and Industrial Chemistry for the M. A. For admission
to a post-graduate course in the School of Chemistry or in the School of Analytical
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.
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