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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.

FOURTH YEAR. First Term. Preparation of chemicals. Second Term. Chemistry applied to the arts of dyeing, bleaching, calico printing, electrotyping and photographing. Third Term. Lectures on the manufacture of glass and porcelain, the smelting of ores; heating and illumination, &c. ARCHITECTURE.

This Department is for the present appended to the College of Engineering. Its Studies embrace many of those belonging to the course in Civil Engineering. They include, also, Architectural drawing, the principles and styles of Architecture, the history of Architecture, and. plans and estimates for buildings of all kinds.

NATURAL HISTORY.

FIRST YPAR. Second Term. Structural and Physiological Botany. Form, arrangement, structure, morphology, growth and office of the leaves and flowers; forms, growth and office of the stem and root; cellular tissue, cell development, cell contents and cell transformations ; structure, parts and uses of seeds and fruits, 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. Third Term Botany in lectures : 1st. the natural orders, their extent, properties, uses and distribution ; 2d, use of the microscope. Vegetable Physiology continued. Classification, distribution and reproduction of cryptogamous plants. SECOND YEAR. First Term. Systematic Botany. Practical examination and collection of the flowering and flowerless plants from all parts of the State, as far as practicable. Botanical excursions and purveys. ZOOLOGY. Principles of Zoology. Development, structure, classification and distribution of animals. Second Term. Systematic Zoology, in lectures: 1st, natural orders, families, etc; 2d, Embryology and peculiar modes of reproduction ; alternate generation ; Comparative Anatomy as applied to classification. Collection and preservation of specimens, and Natural History of domestic animals. Third Term Entomology. Classification of insects ; habits of those injurious to vegetation, with means of checking their ravages. Habits, of beneficial species. THIRD YEAR. First Term. General Physiology. Comparative Anatomy. G-EOLOGY Second Term Principles of Geology. Third Term-. Lithological Geology. Sources and materials of mineral wealth ; building stones; mineral veins. Palaeontology. ^FOURTH YEAR. First Term.' Historical Geology. 'Second T<-rm. Physical Geography and Meteorology. Third Term. Special Geology of Illinois. Method of conducting surveys. Practical excursions.