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Illinois Industrial University.

SECOND TEAR.

First Term.—Same as in Chemical course. Second Term.—Assaying of Gold, Silver, and Lead Ores, both dry and wet way. Blowpipe Assaying. Third Term.—Analysis of Malachite, Azurite, Cinnabar, Tin Ore, Cobalt and Nickel Ore containing Arsenic, Bog Manganese, Grey Antimony.

THIRD TEAR.

First Term.—Analysis of Pig Iron, Wrought Iron, Steel, Furnace Slags, Rolling Mill Slags and Cinders. Second Term,—Same as in Chemical course, with Analysis of Mineral Waters in place of Assaying. Third Term.—Same as second term, fourth year, of Chemical course, with Analysis of Coal in place of Mineral Waters.

APPARATUS.

The facilities offered for obtaining a practical knowledge of Chemistry are believed to be unsurpassed by those of any other institution in the West. A large Laboratory Building, 75x120 feet, and four stories in height, has just been erected, at an expense, including furniture, of $40,000. It includes five labora•tories, a milling and metallurgical room, a photographic atelier and chemical manufacture room. The apparatus includes 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 Soliel-Scheibler's saccharimeter of the most recent arid 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 their accuracy and rapidity. Also an extensive set of metallurgical apparatus, consisting of models of furnaces, etc., and a full set of photographic apparatus. The Library of the School is rich in complete sets of standard scientific works; the Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie; the Jahresbericht ueber die Fortschritte der Chemie; Dingler's Polytechnic Journal; the Handwcerterbuch der Chemie; Percy's Metallurgy ; Silliman's Journal. See Table of Contents for the. list of periodicals taken.