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Caption: Course Catalog - 1884-1885
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College of Natural Science. METALLURGICAL COURSE. FIRST YEAR. 63 Same as in Chemical course. SECOND YEAR. First Term.—Same as in Chemical course. Second Term,—Assaying.* Same as in Chemical course. Third 'Perm.—Analysis of calamine, spathic iron ore, magnetic iron ore, copper pyrites, galena, nickel ore, manganese ore, cinnabar, grey antimony. THIRD YEAR. First Term.—Analysis of slags from copper, zinc, and lead; iron furnace and mill slags. Second Term.—Analysis of pig iron, wrought iron, steel, commercial copper, lead, zinc, bullion. Third Term.—Analysis of fuels, wood, anthracite and bituminous coals, coke, determination of heating power. Analysis of ashes and fur. nace cinders; mineral waters. APPARATUS. The facilities offered for obtainining 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-aoom for assaying and metallurgical operation; 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 accomodate 152 students; one hundred and four desks are now fitted, each having an evaporating hood, gas, and water. There are a spectroscope table, a blow-pipe 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 sixtyfour 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. *Students who take this term's work must have had a term of Mineralogy,
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