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33 GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. This course will resemble that in the Department of Latin.

FIRST YEAR.—First three books of Xenophon's Anabasis; Herodotus; Greek prose composition begun and continued throughout the course. SECOND YEAR.—Demosthenes; Thucydides; Homer's Iliad. THIRD YEAR.—Xenophon's Momorabilio of Socrates. Selections from Plato and Greek poets.

Select portions of Smith's History of Greece will be read in course, and lectures given on Greek history and philosophy.

CHEMISTRY.

The full course in this Department will occupy four years, and is designed to make students at home in the applications of chemistry to agriculture, and the arts and manufactures; in a word, to make them thorough chemists.

FIRST YEAR—First Term.—Inorganic Chemistry and Chemical Physics. Second Term.— Organic Chemistry. Third Term.—Qualitative Analysis—detection of the alkalies, the alkaline earths, the earths, the metals, the mineral acids and the organic acids. Use of the blow-pipe and the spectroscope. Crystallography and Descriptive Mineralogy. Instructions on the subject will be given by lectures, and the students will have practice in determining minerals. SECOND YEAR—First Term.—Qualitative Analysis—a series of substances for practice in the detection and separation of the elements. Practice in Mineralogy continued. Second Term.—Quantitative Analysis. Salts, minerals, ores, alloys, furnace products, etc. Third Term.—Quantitative analysis of soils, manures, ashes of plants and mineral waters. THIRD YEAR—First Term.—Quantitative Analysis continued; assaying; volumetric analysis. Second Term.—Organic Analysis. Detection and separation of organic acids and bases and other organic compounds. Third Term,—Quantitative Organic Analysis: 1st, of compounds containing carbon and hydrogen; 2d, of compounds containing corbon, hydrogen and oxygen; 3d, estimation of nitrogen, sulphur, chlorine, bromine and iodine in organic compounds. FOURTH YEAR—First Term.—Preparation of chemicals. Second Term.—Chemistry applied to the arts of dj-eing, bleaching, calico printing, electrotyping and photographing. Third Term.—Lectures on the manufacture of glass and porcelain, the smelting of ores; heating and illumination, etc. ARCHITECTURE.

This Department is for the present appended to the College of Engineering, Its studies embrace many of those belonging to the course in Civil Engineering. They include, also, Architectural Drawing, the principles and styles of Architecture, the history of Architecture, and plans and estimates for buildings of all kinds.

NATURAL HISTORY.

FIRST YEAR—Second Term.—Structural and Physiological Botany. Form, arrangement structure, morphology, growth and office of the leaves and flowers; forms, growth and office of the stem and root; cellular tissue, cell development, cell contents and cell transformations ; structure, parts and uses of seeds and fruits, and the food, nutrition and repro-

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