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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; 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, an induction coil, battery, mercury, etc.; and a store-room with apparatus for all kinds of work in quan tiative analysis. The apparatus for general use includes a large platinum retort for the preparation of hydrofluoric acid; a Geissler's mercurial air pump; Hoffman's apparatus for illustiating the composition of compound gases; a Soliel-Scheibler's saccharimeter; an excellent set of aeometers; a Hauy's goniometer; a -camera with Ross' lenses; a Ruhmkorff's coil; galvanic batteries of Grove and Bunsen and a potassium dichromate battery; a galvanometer; a spectroscope; microscopes; 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. S. in School of Chemistry.

FIRST YEAR.

1. Chemistry, General and Applied; Trigonometry; American Authors or French. 2. Chemistry and Laboratory Practice; Conic Sections; British Authors or French. 3. Organic Chemistry and Laboratory Practice ; Free Hand Drawing ; Rhetoric or French.

SECOND YEAR.

1. Chemistry and Laboratory Practice; Physiology or Botany; German2. Agricultural Chemistry and Laboratory Practice; Microscopy; German3. Agricultural Chemistry and Laboratory practice; Vegetable Physiolology; German.

THIRD YEAR.

1. Laboratory Practice; Mineralogy; German. -2. Laboratory Practice; Physics; German. •3. Laboratory Practice; Physics; German.

FOURTH YEAR.

Laboratory Practice; Mental Science; Physiography. Laboratory Practice; Constitutional History; Logic. Laboratory Practice; Political Economy; Geology.