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Illinois Industrial

University.

INSTRUCTION.

Text-book instruction in the principles of chemistry and chemical physics occupies six •weeks of the first term of the first year. The remainder of the year the recitations alternate with laboratory practice. During the next three years each student is expected to work two hours daily in the laboratory five days in the week. In order to graduate, each is required at the close of his course, to make an original investigation, and present a Thesis. Students who pursue Chemistry as a part of other courses work at least two consecutive hours daily during such time as their specialties 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; Watts' Dictionary of Chemistry; Lehmann's Physiological Chemistry; Percy's Metallurgy; Mitchell's Practical Assaying; Wormley's Micro-Chemistry of Poisons; Taylor on Poison. Four courses of laboratory work have been arranged as follows :

CHEMICAL COURSE.

FIRST TEAR.

First Term.—Qualitative Analysis; Tests and Separation of the Alkalies, Alkaline Earths, (N H4'2S Group, and 1st and 2d Divisions of H2S Group. Second Term.— Qualitative Analysis Completed; Tests, and Separation of 3d Division of H2S Group, and the Acids; Analysis of 20 Simple Salts, and 20 Compound Substances. Third Term.—Qualitative Analysis of Sodium Sulphate, Dolomite, Ammonium, Alum, Potassium Chloride, Bone Ash, Iron Ore.

SECOND TEAR.

First Term.—Quantitative Analysis of Calamite (Zinc Carbonate), Copper Pyrites, Galena, Spathic Iron Ore, Nickel Ore, Clay, Soil; Determination of Iron, Copper, etc., both volumetrically and gravimetrically. Second Term.—Volumetric Analysis; Alkalimetry and Acidimetry; Preparation of Standard Solutions; Analysis of Sodium Carbonate, Sodium Hydroxide, Potassium Hydroxide, Pearl Ash, Cream of Tartar, Sulphuric, Hydrochloric, Oxalic, and Citric Acids; Analysis of Corn or other Grain. Third Term.—Preparations of Salts, Acids, etc. Electroplating with Silver, Gold, Copper, Nickel.