Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1868-1869 VERSION B [PAGE 7]

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In the appendix will be given several combined courses of studies, to aid the student to select such a course a.s may best fit him for his chosen profession or pursuit in life. These courses are given simply as hints to guide the inexperienced, and must by no means be understood as restricting the entire liberty of choice which is a fundamental idea of the University.

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY. The course in this department will occupy four years, and is designed to make students at home in the applications of chemistry to agriculture, and "the arts and manufactures; IL a word to make them thorough chemists. FIRST YEAB.—First Term.—Inorganic Chemistry. Second Tern.—Organic Chemistry. Third Term.—Qualitative Analysis—detection of the alkalies the alkaline earths, the earths, the metals, the mineral acids, and the organic acids. Use of the blow pipe and the spectroscope. Descriptive Mineralogy. Instructions on the subject will be given by lectures, and the students will have practice in determining minerals. SECOND YEAB.—First Term.—Qualitative Analysis—a series of substances for practice in the detection and separation of the elements. Practice in Mineralogy continued. Second Term.—Quantitative Analysis—salts, minerals, ores, alloys, furnace products, etc. Practice in Mineralogy continued. Tliird Term.—Quantitative Analysis, of soils, manures, ashes of plants, mineral waters, etc. Practice in Mineralogy continued. THIKD YEAB.'—First • Term.—Quantitative Analysis continued. Assaying. Volumetric Analysis. Second Term.—Organic Analysis. Detection and separation of organic acids and bases, and other organic compounds. Third Term. Quantitative Organic Analysis: 1st, of compounds containing carbon and hydrogen ; 2d, of compounds containing carbon, hydrogen and oxygen; 3d, estimation of nitrogen, sulphur, chlorine, bromine and iodine in organic compounds. FOUBTII YEAB.—First Term.—Preparations of Chemicals. Second Term.— Chemistry applied to the arts of dying, bleaching, calico printing, electrotyping and photographing. Tliird Term.—Lectures on the manufacture of glass and procelain, the smelting of ores. Heating and illumination. DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY. The course in this department extends through four years. FIKST YEAB.—First Term.—Structural and Physiological Botany. Form, arrangement, structure, morphology, growth and office of the leaves and flowers ; forms, growth and office of stem and root; cellular tissue, cell development, cell contents and cell transformations. Structure, parts and uses of seeds and fruit; and the food, nutrition and reproduction of plants. The whole illustrated by living and dried specimens and drawings. Also, enough of Systematic Botany to enable the general student to analyze the flowering plants. Second Term.—Systematic Botany in lectures: 1st, the natural orders, their extent, properties, uses and distribution; 2d, use of the microscope.