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SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY.
PROFESSOR MALLET,
Dr. HARRISON.
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, the foundations of our knowledge
of chemical structure, 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 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 translation); Bernthsen's Text-Book of
Organic Chemistry, translated by McGowan; Watt'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 manufacturer, 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; among 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.
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. It is desirable that the student shall,
himself, as far as possible, select subjects for investigation,
but when he cannot do so, suitable questions will be presented
to him, and he will be encouraged to work them out
for himself, with only such aid and guidance as may prove
to be indispensable. 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.
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 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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