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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 Blow-pipe 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 (2d 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 Blow-pipe Analysis, Determinative Mineralogy, and
the application of chemical processes to the examination of potable waters,
coals, 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.

4. A course of twenty-four lectures on Agricultural Chemistry, including
a discussion of the chemical and physical properties of the atmosphere,
of soils and of plants; the chemistry of the processes of vegetable life as far
as they are related to Agriculture; the chemical composition and preparation
of manures; the chemistry of stock feeding, and so on. This course is open
without charge to students from Virginia and to farmers who are not matriculated
students.

For Reference.—Johnston's and Cameron's Elements of Agricultural Chemistry and
Geology (17th ed.); Johnson's How Crops Grow; Johnson's How Crops Feed; Armsby's
Manual of Cattle Feeding.

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.