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Caption: Course Catalog - 1878-1879
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College of Natural Science. 63 nished as those of the lower laboratory with gas hoods and wash bowls. 4th. Store room, completely furnished with apparatus for all kinds of work in quantitative Analysis, both volumetric and gravimetric. The apparatus for general use 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 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 with a full set of accessory apparatus, and a Hartnack microscope ; a gas combustion furnace for organic analysis, etc. 5th. Balance room, containing five chemical balances of the manufacture of Bunge, (Short Beam) Becker & Son, and Troemner. 6th. Pharmacy. This room is furnished like a Drug Store with shelves, drawers, prescription desk, balance, graduates, etc. It contains a full set of drugs and pharmaceutical preparations for illustrating lectures on Materia Medica. The preparations are made in the laboratory by students in Pharmacy. 7th. Private Laboratory for instructors. 8th. Gas Analysis room. This room has no outside walls excepting to the north, and is entirely cut off from the system of heating and ventilating in order to avoid undue fluctuations of temperature during the analysis of gases. It is furnished with a table especially constructed, and contains a full set of Bunsen's Gasometric Apparatus, a coil, battery, mercury, etc. On the mansard floor ample provision has been made for the study of Photography. There is a large operating room, with side light and sky light of ground glass, a dark room and a toning room, the latter two of which are well supplied with soft water. COURSE IN CHEMISTRY. Required for Degree of B. S. in School of Chemistry. FIRST YEAR. 1. Chemistry and Laboratory Practice ; Trigonometry and Advanced Geometry ; British Authors or French.
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