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Caption: Course Catalog - 1874-1875
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College of Natural Science. COLLEGE OF NATURAL FACULTT. THE REGENT. PROFESSOR BURRILL. SCIENCE. PROFESSOR TAFT. PROFESSOR WEBBER. SCHOOLS. SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY. SCHOOL OF NATURAL HISTORY. SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRT. OBJECT OF T H E SCHOOL. The object of this school is to impart such theoretical and practical knowledge of Chemistry as will enable the student to apply the principles of the science to any of the related arts, and tofithim not only for the field of original research, but for the practical business of the Druggist and Practical Chemist. A tabular view of the complete course is given in the Appendix. The instruction in the principles of Chemistry and chemical physics, of five recitations a week, will occupy six weeks of the first term of the first year. For the remainder of the year the recitations will alternate with laboratory practice. During the remaining" three years each student is expected to work two hours daily in the laboratory, five days in the week, and in order to graduate, each is expected, at the close of the course, to make an original investigation, and to write a thesis. See also "Department of Chemistry." Students who pursue Chemistry only as a part of other courses, will find it to their advantage to work at least two consecutive hours daily during such time as their specialty may require. TEXT-BOOKS—Roscoe's Chemistry; Douglas & Prescott's Analysis; Fresenius' Analysis; Miller's Chemistry; Rose's Analysis. BOOKS OF REFERENCE—Gmelin's Handbook of Chemistry; Graham-Otto's Ausfuehrliches Lehrbuch der Chemie; Watt's Dictionary of Chemistry; Lehmann's Physiological Chemistry; Percy's Metallurgy; Mitchell's Practical Assaying. APPARATUS. The facilities offered here for obtaining a practical knowledge of Chemistry are confidently believed to be unsurpassed by those of anv other institution in the West. A second laboratory has recently been fitted up for advanced students, in quantitative analysis. In addition to the usual apjjaratus found in every laboratory, is an extensive series of instruments recently purchased in Europe, including a large platinum retort for the preparation of hydroflouric acid; a Dove's polarizer, with a complete suit of accompanying apparatus; a Geissler's mercurial air pump; Hofman'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 Ilauy's goniometer; a camera with Ross' lenses; a RuhmkorfFs coil; galvanic batteries of Grove and Bunscn; also a potassium
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