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College of Natural

Science.

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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 study of Photography.

COURSE IN-CHEMISTRY.

Required for Degree of B. 8. in School of Chemistry.

FIRST YEAR.

1. Chemistry and Laboratory Practice; Trigonometry; American Authors or French. *. Chemistry and Laboratory Practice; Analytical Geometry; British Authors or French. 3. Organic Chemistry and Laboratory Practice; Free Hand Drawing; Rhetoric or French.

SECOND YEAR.

1. Agricultural Chemistry; Laboratory Practice; Physiology or Botany; German. J. Agricultural Chemistry; Laboratory Practice; Microscopy; German. 3 Laboratory Practice; Zoology; German.

THIRD YEAR.

I Laboratory Practice; Mineralogy; German. 2. Laboratory Practice; Physics; German. 3. Laboratory Practice; Physics; German.

FOURTH YEAR.

1. Laboratory Work; Mental Science; Meteorology and Physical Geography, .s. Constitutional History; Laboratory Work; Logic. 3. Political Economy; Geology; Laboratory ^Vork.