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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

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 storeroom 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 made for the study of photography. COURSE IN CHEMISTRY,

Leading to the Degree of B. S.

FIRST YEAR.

1. Chemistry, General and Applied; Advanced Algebra; Drawing; French. 2. Chemistry, with Laboratory Practice; Trigonometry; Drawing; French. 3. Chemistry, with Laboratory Practice; Conic Sections; Drawing; French. •

SECOND YEAR.

1. Chemistry, with Laboratory; Physics; German. 2. Chemistry, with Laboratory; Physics; German. 3. Chemistry, with Laboratory; Physics; German.

THIRD YEAR.

1. Organic Chemistry, with Laboratory;. Mineralogy; Physiology or Botany. 2. Organic Chemistry, with Laboratory; Botany: German of Science. 3. Organic Chemistry, with Laboratory; German of Science.