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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1890
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216 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. The above course has been arranged for students desiring to make a specialty of chemistry in its applications to metallurgy. For students in the School of Mining Engineering the work of the first year described, together with the following, is presented: SOPHOMORE Y E A H . First Term.—Analysis of ores—iron, zinc, copper. Analysis of crude metals—iron, determination of sulphur, silicon, manganese, phosphorus, and the forms of carbon. J U N I O R YEAR. Second Term.—Assaying, same as in chemical course, third term. Metallurgy, with laboratory practice. Analysis of fluxes, slags, fuels, etc. 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 been erected a t an expense, including furniture, of $40,000. The basement contains furnace room for assaying and metallurgical operation; a mill room for storing and crushing ores; and a large room for the manufacture of chemicals and pharmaceutical preparations. The first story contains a lecture room capable of seating 200 persons, and a qualitative laboratory, which, when completed, will accommodate 152 students; one hundred and four desks are now fitted, each having an evaporating hood, gas, and water. There are a spectroscope table, a blow-pipe table for general use, and a store-room stocked with apparatus and chemicals. The second story, designed for the use of advanced students, has the following apartments: A lecture room with mineralogy ical cabinet and furnace models for illustrating lectures on metallurgy; laboratory for students in agricultural chemistry; large laboratory for quantitative analysis, now containing sixtyfour desks; a balance room, containing chemical balances of the manufacture of Bunge (short beam), Becker & Son, Troemner; a pharmacy, furnished like a drug store, with shelves, drawers, prescription desk, balance, graduates, etc., and containing a full set of drugs and pharmaceutical preparations made in the laboratory by students in pharmacy; private laboratory for instructors; a gas analysis room, entirely cut off from the system of heating and ventilating, to avoid undue fluctuations of temperature, furnished with a table specially constructed, and containing a full set of Bunsen's gasometric apparatus, an inductive coil, battery, murcury, etc.; and a store room with apparatus for all kinds of work in quantitative analysis. The apparatus for general use includes a large platinum retort for the preparation of hydrofluoric acid; a Geissler's mercurial air pump; Hoffman's apparatus for illustrating the com-
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