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Illinois Industrial University.

METALLTIBGICAL COURSE.

FIRST YEAR.

Same as in Chemical course with the Quantitative Analysis of Brass, Solder, and Type Metal in third term.

SECOND YEAR.

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

THIRD YEAR.

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. APPAEATUS.

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 been erected, at an expense, including furniture, of $40,000. The basement contains a furnace room for assaying and metallurgical operations; a mill room for storing and crushing ores; and a large room for the manufacture of chemicals and pharmaceutical preparations. The first story contains a lecture room capable of seating 200 persons, and a qualitative laboratory, which, when completed, will accommodate 152 students; one hundred and four desks are now fitted, each having an evaporating hood and a wash bowl with constant supply of water. There are a spectroscope table, a blowpipe table for general usei 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