Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1882 [PAGE 41]

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35 collection of specimens for materia medica and of officinal preparations made by students; a room for gas analysis; an assay room;. store rooms, and a photographic gallery and other apartments. The apparatus for general use includes a large platinum retort for the preparation of hydrofluoric acid; a Dove's polarizer, with a complete suit of accompanying apparatus; a Geissler's mercurial air pump; Hoffman's apparatus for illustrating the composition of compound gases; a Soliel-Scheibler's saccharimeter; an excellent set of areometers; a Hauy's goniometer; a camera with Boss' lenses; a Euhmkorff's coil; galvanic batteries of Grove and Bunsen; also a potassium dichromate battery, a galvanometer, a spectroscope, and a large binocular microscope; a Hartnack microscope; a gas combustion furnace for organic analysis, etc.

COURSE IN CHEMISTRY.

Required for Degree of B. 8., in School of Chemistry.

F I E S T YEAE.

1. Chemistry and Laboratory Practice; Trigonometry; American Authors or French. 2. Chemistry and Laboratory Practice; Analytical Geometry; British Authors or French. 3" Organic Chemistry and Laboratory Practice; Free Hand Drawing; Rhetoric or French.

SECOND YEAE.

1. Agricultural Chemistry: Laboratory Practice; Physiology or Botany; German. 2. Agricultural Chemistry; Laboratory Practice; Microscopy; German. 3. Laboratory Practice; Zoology; German.

THIED YEAE.

1. Laboratory Practice; Mineralogy; German. 2. Laboratory Practice; Physics; German. 3. Laboratory Practice; Physics; German.

FOUETH YEAE.

1. Laboratory Work; Mental Science; Meteorology and Physical Geography. 2. Constitutional History; Laboratory Work; Logic. 3. Political Economy; Ge-ology; Laboratory Work.

Pour courses of Laboratory work have been arranged, as follows:

CHEMICAL COURSE.

F I E S T YEAE.

First Term.—Qualitative Analysis; Tests and Separation of the Alkalies, Alkaline Earths, N Ht 2S Group, and 1st and 2d Divisions of H2S Group. Second Term.-Qualitative Analysis Complete; Tests, and the Separation of 3d Division of H2S Group, and the Acids; Analysis of 20 Simple Salts, and 20 Compound Substances. Third Term.—Qualitative Analysis of Sodium Sulphate, Dolomite, Ammonium, Alum, Potassium Chloride, Bone Ash, Iron Ore.

SECOND YEAE.

First Term— Quantitative Analysis of Calamite (Zinc Carbonate), Copper Pyrites, Galena, Spathic Iron Ore, Nickel Ore, Clay, Soil; Determination of Iron, Copper, etc. both volumetrically and gravimetrically. Second Term.—Volumetric Analysis; Alkalimetry and Acidimetry; Preparation of Standard Solutions; Analysis of Sodium Carbonate, Sodium Hydroxide, Potassium,