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APPAKA TUS.

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completed, will accommodate 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, arid 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 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; 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 inductive 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 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; a galvanometer; a spectroscope; microscopes; gas combustion furnaces for organic analysis, etc. On the mansard floor ample provision has been 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; Free Hand Drawing; French. 2. Chemistry and Laboratory Practice; Conic Sections; Free Hand Drawing; French. 3. Organic Chemistry and Laboratory Practice; Free Hand Drawing; Calculus; French.