Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1878 [PAGE 150]

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150 Third Term.—Preparation of salts, perfumes, flavoring extracts, cosmetics, electroplating with gold, silver, copper and nickel.

FOURTH YEAR.

First Term.—Same as second term, fourth year, of chemical course. Second Term.—Analysis of urine, normal and pathological, reading and compounding prescriptions. Third Term.—Original researches, thesis.

AGRICULTURAL FIRST COURSE.

YEAR.

Same as in chemical course.

SECOND YEAR.

First Term.—Quantitative analysis of feldspar, soil, ashes of plants and grains. Second Term.—Analysis of commercial fertilizers, manures, and minerals used for fertilizers. Third Term.—Preparation of organic and inorganic salts, starch from potatoes, corn, wheat, etc., sugar, dextrine, alcohol.

THIRD YEAR.

First Term.—Same as in chemical course. Second Term.—Analysis of milk, corn, wheat, potatoes, fruits, etc. Third Term.—Silt analysis of soils, analysis of mineral waters.

METALLURGICAL COURSE.

FIRST YEAR.

Same as in chemical course with the quantitative analysis of brass, solder and type metal in third term.

SECOND Y E A R .

First Term.—Analysis of pig iron, wrought iron, steel, furnace slags, rolling mill slags and cinders. Second Term.—Same as in chemical course, with analysis of mineral waters in place of assaying. Third Term.—Same as second term, fourth year, of chemical course, with analysis of coal in place of mineral waters.

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, has just been erected, at an expense, including furniture, of $40,000. I t includes five laboratories, a milling and metallurgical room, a photographic atelier and chemical mauf acture room. The apparatus includes a large platinum retort for the preparation of hydrofluoric