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SCHOOL OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY.

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. Stoichiometry
is taught by exercises and occasional lectures. 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 kind 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; Venable's Qualitative Analysis (2nd ed.); 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. The pursuit of this course
will enable the practitioner satisfactorily to dispense medicines, and it will
afford him needed familiarity with handling chemicals and the forms of prescriptions.
Medical students who enter this class are charged only for material
consumed ($5.00).

4. A course of twenty-four lectures 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 students from Virginia and farmers who are not matriculated students.

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

The Chemical Laboratory is a building planned and erected for the
purpose. It is warmed throughout by hot water, 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.