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SCHOOL OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY.
PROFESSOR DUNNINGTON.
The regular work of this school, constituting a complete
course in Practical Chemistry, is divided into two courses,
as follows:
1. This course consists of three lessons a week throughout
the session, on each occasion the students spending
three or four hours in practical experiments in the Laboratory.
A course in Chemical Manipulation is first given,
then Blowpipe Analysis and recognition of ores and a
systematic course in inorganic Qualitative Analysis followed
by practice in analysis of salts, alloys and ores, determination
of minerals and the examination of potable water,
coal, clay and so on, together with some simpler quantitative
determinations.
2. The work of the second course is also given in
three lessons a week throughout the session, each being
followed by four hours or more of practical laboratory work.
This course is primarily one in Quantitative Analysis.
After some training in manipulation and gravimetric
estimations, fire assaying of ores of lead, gold and silver is
pursued, then volumetric estimations and a full course in
Quantitative Analysis of minerals, ores, coal, soil, technical
products, and so on. As the student 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 much
weight.
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 first course, or
for both courses at the same time; candidates for graduation
are required to complete both courses. 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.
PH. D.
The graduate course is designed for those seeking the
degree of Ph. D. and also for such students as desire to
increase the range of their experience as analysts and to
cultivate their powers of original investigation.
It is required of those who enter this course that they
shall have previously graduated both in this School and in
General Chemistry, or that they shall have previously made
equivalent attainments elsewhere.
Laboratory work will be conducted daily, and suggestions
and due assistance will be given in its prosecution.
While the work is adapted to the special aims or taste
of each student, it will in all cases comprise some practice
in the more elaborate processes of analysis, ultimate and
proximate organic analysis, some study in analytical methods
and some original problems, also the reading and the summarizing
of extracts from current journals, and for all who
are seeking the degree of Ph. D., a dissertation embodying
the results of some original research.
SPECIAL COURSES.
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 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.
2. 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 so 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
students.
For reference: Johnston's Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, 17th
Edition: London, 1894.
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 storerooms
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
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