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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' 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 development of the natural
resources of the country in large measure depends, the opportunity
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; Thorpe's Dictionary of Applied Chemistry;
Girardin's Leç ons de Chimie Elémentaire 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 can not 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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