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SPECIAL COURSE.
In addition to the foregoing, the following Special Course is given
in this School.
This course consists 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
farmers who are not matriculated students. For fees to others, see
Expenses.
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, evaporating, 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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