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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1871
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43 The College is provided with a laboratory fitted up with tables, gas pipes, chemicals and chemical apparatus for a large class to practice. It has also sand baths, stills for water, etc, scales of the highest accuracy and finish, a large binocular microscope of English manufacture, spectroscope, blow-pipes, galvanic batteries, and other important chemical apparatus. An appropriation of $5,500 has recently been made by the General Assembly to increase the apparatus and facilities for this department of study, and it is expected that this fund will be expended this summer under the direction of the Professor of Chemistry. FIRST YEAR—First Term.—Geometry, Chemistry, English Language and Literature, U. S. History, two lectures a week. Second Term.—Chemistry, Geometry and Algebra, English or Botany, U. S. History, two lectures a week. Third Term.—Analytical Chemistry, Botany, English Literature. SECOND YEAR—First Term.—Trigonometry, Analytical Chemistry, German. Second Term.— Analytical Geometry, Physics, Analytical Chemistry, German. Third Term.—Practical Chemistry; Mineralogy and Crystallography, Physics, German. THIRD YEAR—First Term.—Drawing, Chemistry and Mineralogy, French, Ancient History. Second Term.—Practical Chemistry, Rhetoric, French, Mediaeval History. Third Term%— Palaeontology and Astronomy, Practical Chemistry, French, Modern History. FOURTH YEAR—First Term— Manufacture of Chemicals, Zoology, Geology. Second Term.— Assaying and Metallurgy, History of Civilization and of the Inductive Sciences, Logic. Third Term.—Assaying and Metallurgy, History of Philosophy, Constitutional and International Law. The above course will necessarily vary for the student of Agricultural Chemistry, and the student of Mining and Metallurgy. COLLEGE O F N A T U R A L HISTORY. FACULTY. T H E REGENT. J. BURRILL, Professor of Botany. A. P. S. STUART, Professor of Mineralogy. D. C. TAFT, Professor, pro tempore, of Zoology and Geology. The aim of this College is to afford a thorough education and preparation for Practical Geologists, Collectors and Curators of cabinets and museums of Natural History, and for Superintendents of scientific explorations and surveys. The several Departments are being rapidly provided with illustrative collections and other apparatus. The Botanical Department has a THOMAS
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