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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, 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 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, is concerned with the applications of chemistry to the purposes of
human life. It examines in detail the chemical principles and processes specially
concerned in the more important arts and manufactures, upon which the dexelopment
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 Watt's Chemical Technology; Muspratt's Chemistry as Applied to Arts
and Manufactures; Ure's Dictionary of Arts and Manufactures; Girardin's Leçons
de Chimie Élementaire appliquée aux Arts Industriels; Percy's Metallurgy; Sadtler's
Handbook of Industrial Organic Chemistry, 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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