Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1872 [PAGE 48]

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apparatus for illustrating in the lecture room the composition of compound gases ; a Soliel, Sheibler's Saccharometer of the most recent and approved construction; an excellent set of Areometers 5 a Haeuy's Goniometer; a camera with Boss' lenses ; a Buhmkorff's Coil; galvanic batteries of Grove and Bunsen ; also, a potassium dichromate battery, a galvanometer and a thermo-electric pile; a spectroscope and a large binocular microscope ; two additional chemical balances, peculiar in the shortness of their beams and remarkable for the accuracy and rapidity with which weighing can be executed with them. A batterer's carbon dioxide condenser, and an extensive set of metallurgical apparatus, consisting of models of furnaces, etc., have been ordered, and are expected at an early date. In addition, should also be mentioned, complete sets of standard scientific works, with which the library of the school has recently been enriched; among which are the Annalen der Chemie und Pharmcie; the Jahresbericht uber die Fortschritte der Chemie; Dingler's Polytechnic Journal; the Handworterbuch der Chemie; Percy's Metallurgy; Silliman's Journal, and many other smaller works. Various foreign journals are also taken, giving the student access to the most recent discoveries and views in this department of science. TEXT BOOKS.—Boscoe's Chemistry; Wills' Outlines of Chemical Analysis; Fresenius' Analysis ; Miller's Chemistry; Bose's Analysis. BOOKS OF BEFERENCE.—Gmelin's Handbook of Chemistry; Graham— Otto's Ausfuhrliches Lehrbuchder Chemie; Watt's Dictionary of Chemistry; Lehmann's Physiological Chemistry; Percy's Metallurgy; Mitchell's Practical Assaying.

SCHOOL OF XATUBAL HISTOBY. The aim of this school 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 large Herbarium of dried plants, collected by the Powell expeditions, which has been largely increased from other sources. It has a Lignarium, exhibiting woods in section, also papier mache flowers, and fruits of gigantic size, made by the celebrated Auzoux, of Paris, a pink, a papilionaceous flower, a cherry, a strawberry, a pea pod with peas, a vetch legume^ a grain of wheat, etc. These gigantic specimens are dissected