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COLLEGE OF NATURAL SCIENCE.

SECOND YEAR.

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First Term.—Analysis of ores, iron, manganese, zinc, copper, lead, nickel, etc. Second Term.—Assaying. Same as in chemical course, (Students who pursue this term's work must have had one term of mineralogy.) Third Term.—Analysis of refractory materials, fluxes and slags.

THIRD YEAR.

First Term.—Gas analysis. Same as in chemical course. Study of furnace gases. Second Term.—Analysis of fuels—wood, anthracite and bituminous coals, coke; determination of heating power. Third Term.—Analysis of cast iron, wrought iron, and steel. Determinations of sulphur, silicon, manganese, phosphorus, and the forms of carbon. The above course has been arranged for students desiring to make a specialty of chemistry in its application to metallurgy. For students in the course of Mining Engineering the work of the first year described, together with the following, is presented:

SECOND YEAR.

First Term.—Analysis of ores—iron, zinc, copper. Analysis of crude metals—iron, determination of sulphur, silicon, manganese, phosphorus, and the forms of carbon.

THIRD YEAR.

Second Term.—Assaying, same as in chemical course, third term. Metallurgy, with laboratory practice. Analysis of fluxes, slags, fuels, etc.

APPARATUS.

A large laboratory building, 75 x 120 feet, and four stories in height, is devoted to this specialty. The basement contains furnace room 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 large enough to 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, 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,