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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,
Druggists, 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
from Virginia and to farmers who are not matriculated 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 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 impor-
tation.
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
to the arts and manufacturers, and is so arranged as to be a most valuable aid to
the student of Industrial Chemistry.
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