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Illinois Industrial University.

AGRICULTURAL.

1. Inorganic, Organic and Agricultural Chemistry; Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses of Salts; Chemical Physics. 2. Analysis of Clays, Marls, Mineral Waters, Manures, Soils and Vegetable Products. 3. Isolation of Organic Acids and Bases; Estimation of Hydrogen, Carbon, Sulphur, Sugar, Tannin, etc. 4. Analysis of Air, Illuminating Gas, etc.; Study of Poisons.

TECHNICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL.

1. The same as AGRICULTURAL, except Agricultural Chemistry, 2. Quantitative Analysis of Dolomite, Marl, Silicates, and Ores; Preparation of Acids, Alkalies and Salts. 3. The same as in AGRICULTURAL, with Electroplating, Bleaching, Dyeing, Tanning and Assaying. 4. Same as in AGRICULTURAL, with Photograph}'.

METALLURGICAL.

1. Inorganic Chemistry; Chemical Physics; Qualitative and Blowpipe Analyses of Alloys, etc. 2. Analysis of Gold, Silver, Copper and other Ores, also Slags of Furnaces; Assays of Bullion, and Ores of Zinc, Antimony, Tin, etc. 3. Analysis of Iron; Steel, Nickel, Cobalt, etc., Fuel; ElectroMetallurgy; jrresetvation of Wood; Lime, Mortar, and Cements. 4. Same as in AGRICULTURAL.

APPARATUS.

The facilities offered here for obtaining a practical knowledge of Chemistry are confidently believed to be unsurpassed by those of nnv other institution in the west. A second laboratory has recently been fitted up for advanced students, in quantitative anal) sis. 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 suit of accompanying apparatus; a Geissler's mercurial air pump; Hoffman's apparatus for illustrating in the lecture room the composition of compound gases; a Soleil-Scheibler's saccharimeter of the most recent and approved construction; an excellent set of areometers; a Hauy's goniometer; a camera with Ross' lenses; a Ruhmkorff's coil; galvanic batteries of Grove and Bunsen; also a potassium dichromate battery, a galvanometer and a thermo-electric 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 rapidit)* 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, etc., have recently been received. A full set of Photographic Apparatus has been provided and a large number of views have been taken.