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ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT. 147
lation. This work comprises the determination of the more important
elements ; the analysis of ores, minerals, and alloys ; the detection
and determination of poisons ; analysis by electrolysis ; gas analysis ;
and practice in the use of the polariscope, spectroscope, and refrac-
tometer. To these students occasional lectures may be given on the
recent literature of chemical analysis.
Assaying. To students who have studied quantitative analysis
there is offered a short course in assaying, in which practice is given
in the and sampling assay of ores of lead, silver, and gold, and in the
assay of gold and silver bullion. A special laboratory is provided for
this work, and is fully equipped with all necessary furnaces and tools.
The chemical building, named Morse Hall, consists of two structures
connected by corridors on each floor. It contains four lecture rooms,
one seating three hundred and fifty students, another eighty, and each
of the other two, sixty-two students. They are furnished with all the
necessary appliances for the illustration of the lectures by experiments
and the lantern. In addition to these rooms,
with their adjacent
apparatus and preparation rooms, there are three large student labora
tories for the elementary work in general chemistry and in qualitative
and quantitative analysis, ten private laboratories for professors and
instructors, a room for the chemical library, a large museum room
and four balance rooms.
There are also a number of rooms for special kinds of analytical
work ; one is for spectroscopy, including a dark room for photography ;
three rooms are devoted to assaying, two with northern exposure to
gas analysis, one to organic ultimate analysis by combustion, one to
the distillation in the analysis of water and of foods, two to bacteri
ological work in connection with the analysis of water and foods, one
to microchemical analysis, and one to physiological and toxicological
practice and analysis.
For other lines of laboratory work not purely
analytical there are
three rooms for the organic chemistry, for advanced inorganic
chemistry one large room for work with electric furnaces, another one
for general research, and two smaller ones for graduate work ; for
physical chemistry there is a large room for general elementary work,
one for electrochemistry, one for undergraduate research, and one for
graduate work.
In addition to the rooms already
room for work which might endanger the building if done in a room
not thus protected, a room with ventilation strong for work that
evolves offensive or unwholesome gases, a general supply room from
mentioned there is a fire-proof
which all the students draw their apparatus and chemicals, and the