Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1884 [PAGE 31]

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35 next three years each student is expected to work two hours daily in the laboratory, five days in the week. In order to graduate, each is required, at the close of his course, to make an original investigation, and present a thesis. Students who pursue Chemistry as a part of other courses work at least two consecutive hours daily during such time as their specialty may require. The special Chemical course requires for its completion four years of study. Associated with this there have been established a four years' course in Pharmacy and three years' courses in Agricultural Chemistry and Metallurgy.

APPARATUS.

The facilities offered for obtaining a practical knowledge of Chemistry are believed to be unsurpassed by those of any other institution in the West. A large laboratory building 75x120 feet, and four stories in height, was erected 1877-8, at an expense, including furniture, of $40,000. It is excellently lighted, heated and ventilated, and contains the following apartments: One large lecture room, with seating capacity for two hundred students; one small lecture room for advanced students; a large laboratory fc-r qualitative analysis, containing one hundred and four desks; a large laboratory for quantitative analysis, etc., containing sixty-four desks; a pharmacy, with 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 Eoss' 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. S.9 in School of Chemistry.

EIEST YEAK.

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 YEAB.

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