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College of Natural Science.

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with constant supply of water. There are a spectroscope table, a blowpipe table for general use, and a store room stocked with apparatus and chemicals. The second story, designed for the use of advanced students, has the following apartments: A lecture room with mineralogical cabinet, and furnace models for illustrating lectures on metallurgy; laboratory for students in agricultural chemistry; large laboratory for quantitative analysis, now containing sixty-four desks; a balance room, containing eight chemical balances of the manufacture of Bunge (Short Beam), Becker & Son, Troemner; a pharmacy, furnished like a drug store, with shelves, drawers, prescription desk, balance, graduates, etc., and containing a full set of drugs and pharmaceutical preparations made in the laboratory by students in pharmacy; a private laboratory ^for instructors; a gas analysis room, entirely cut off from the system of heating and ventilating to avoid undue fluctuations of temperature, furnished with a table specially constructed, and containing a full set of Bunsen's gasometric apparatus, a coil, battery, mercury, etc.; and a store room with apparatus for all kinds of work in quantitative analysis. 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 the composition of compound gases; a Soliel-Scheibler's saccharimeter; 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, a spectroscope, and a large binocular microscope; a Hartnack microscope; a gas combustion furnace for organic analysis, etc. On the mansard floor ample provision has been made for the stud}- of Photography.

COURSE IN CHEMISTRY.

Required for Degree of B. S. in School of Chemistry.

FIRST YEAR.

1. Cheinistiy and Laboratory Practice; Trigonometry; British Authors or French. 2. Chemistry and Laboratory Practice: Analytical Geometry; American Authors or French. 3. Organic Chemistry and Laboratory Practice; Free Hnnd Drawing; Rhetoric or French.