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Caption: Course Catalog - 1871-1872
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COLLEGE OF NATURAL SCIENCE. lf.5 APPARATUS. The facilities here for obtaining a practical knowledge of Chemistry are confidently believed to be unsurpassed by those of any olher institution in the West. In addition to the usual apparatus found in every laboratory, is an extensive series of instruments recently purchased in Europe, including a large platinum retort for the preparation of hydrofluoric acid ; a Dove's Polarizer, with a complete suite of accompanying apparatus ; a Geissler's Mercurial Air Pump ; a socalled Hoffman's apparatus for illustrating in the lecture room the composition of compound gases ; a Soleil, Scheibler's Saccharometer of the most recent and approved construction ; an excellent set of Areometers; a Haeuy's Goniometer ; a camera with Ross' lenses ; a Buhmkorff's Coil; galvanic batteries of Grove and Bunsen ; also a potassium dichromate battery, a galvanometer and a thermoelectric pile ; a spectroscope and a large binocular microscope ; two additional chemical balances, peculiar in the shortness of their beams and remarkable for the accuracy and rapidity with which weighing can be executed with them. A Natterer's carbon dioxide condenser, and an extensive set of metallurgical apparatus, consisting of models of furnaces, &c, have been ordered, and are expected at an early date. In addition, should also be mentioned complete sets of standard scientific works, with which the library of the School has recently been enriched ; among which are the Annalen der Chemie und Pharmcie ; the Jahresbericht uber die Fortschritte der Chemie ; Dingler's Polytechnic Journal ; the Handworterbuch der Chemie ; Percy's Metallurgy ; Silliman's Journal, and many other smaller works. Various foreign journals are also taken, giving the student access to the most recent discoveries and views in this department of science. TEXT BOOKS.—Koscoe's Chemistry; "Wills' Outlines of Chemical Analysis; Frosenius' Analysis ; Miller's Chemistry; Rose's Analysis. BOOKS OF REFERENCE.—Gmelin's Handbook of Chemistry; Graham—Otto's Ausfiihrliches Lehrbuch der Chemie; "Watt's Dictionary of Chemistry; Lehmann's Physiological Chemistry ; Percy's Metallurgy; Mitchell's Practical Assaying. SCHOOL OF NATURAL HISTORY. The aim of this School is to afford a thorough education and preparation for Practical Geologists, Collectors and Curators of cabinets and museums of Natural History, and for Superintendents of scientific explorations and surveys. The several departments are being rapidly provided with illustrative collections and other apparatus. The Botanical department hasa large Herbarium of dried plants, collected by the Powell expeditions, which has been largely increased from other sources. It has a Lignarium exhibiting woods in section, also papier mache flowers, and fruits of gigantic size, made by the celebrated Auzoux, of Paris, a pink, a papillonaceus flower, a cherry, a strawberry, a pea pod with peas, a vetch legume, a grain of wheat, &c. These gigantic specimens
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