Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1872 [PAGE 56]

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MECHANICAL SCIENCE, CIVIL ENGINEEBINGT, AECHITECTUBE, AND MINING. The specialties in these departments have already been fully detailed under the several schools in the College of Engineering.

CHEMISTRY.

To accommodate those who have a special object in view, this department has three special courses of Laboratory work arranged.

1. Agriculture. FIRST YEAR.—Inorganic, Organic, and Agricultural Chemistry; Qualitative Analysis of Salts; Chemical Physics. and Quantitative

SECOND YEAR—Analysis of Clays, Marls, Mineral Waters, Manures, Soils and Vegetable Products. THIRD YEAR.—Isolation of Organic Acids and Bases; Estimation of Hydrogen, Carbon, Sulphur, etc., Sugar, Tannin, etc. FOURTH YEAR.—Analysis of Air, Illuminating Gas, etc., and the Study of Poisons. 2. Technical and Pharmaceutical.

FIRST YEAR.—The same as AGRICULTURAL, except Agricultural Chemistry. SECOND YEAR.—Quantitative Analysis of Dolomite, Marl, Silicates and Ores; Preparation of Acids, Alkalies and«Salts. THIRD YEAR.—The same as in AGRICULTURAL, with Electroplating, Bleaching, Dyeing, Tanning and Assaying. FOURTH YEAR.—Same as in AGRICULTURAL, with Photography. 3. Metallurgical.

FIRST YEAR.—Inorganic Chemistry; Chemical Physics; Qualitative and Blowpipe Analysis of Alloys, etc. SECOND YEAR.—Analysis of Gold, Silver, Copper and other Ores ; also, Slags of Furnaces; Assays of Bullion, and Ores of Zinc, Antimony, Tin, etc. THIRD YEAR.—Analysis of Iron, Steel, Nickel, Cobalt, etc., Fuel; Electro-Metallurgy; of Wood, Lime, Mortar and Cement. FOURTH YEAR.—Same aa in AGRICULTURAL. Preservation

NATURAL HISTORY.

The studies in this important department of science extend through nearly four years, beginning with the second term of the hrst year in the Colleges of Natural Science and Agriculture. The increased prominence given to this class of studies by the new school laws of the State, will be met by increased efforts to make the instruction as thorough and practical as possible* The following is an exhibit of the special studies of the department :

FIRST YEAR.—Botany.—Beginning with the opening of the winter term in January, the different essential parts of plants, and their various modifications to form the root, stem, leaves, flowers, fruits, etc., will be studied, together with the laws of morphology and required terminology. During the year, structural, physiologic, and systematic botany, will receive careful attention, so as to acquaint