Untitled - eCommons@Cornell - Cornell University

148 ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT.
laboratory of the University Experiment Station. In the sub-basement
there are a large constant temperature room, dynamo rooms, the ore
crusher room, a large stock room, etc.
Distilled water is conducted in block tin pipe to all the more im
portant rooms on each floor, from a tin-lined tank in the uppermost
story where the distilling apparatus is placed. Every student's place
is furnished with all the essential apparatus for his general work and
with water and gas, and with suction in the quantitative and organic
laboratories ; oxygen, hydrogen, and air-blast are supplied wherever
required, from reservoirs in the basement. The oxygen and hydrogen
are made by the electrolytic decomposition of water by means of a
dynamo current, the gases being collected in tanks of about fifty
cubic feet capacity, and thence piped to the various rooms of the
building.
The museum contains collections for the illustration of lectures
upon general, organic and applied chemistry. These collections in
clude specimens of the elements, their compounds, and the ores from
which they are obtained, a full series of typical organic compounds, and
also specimens illustrating the leading chemical industries,
such as
the manufacture of the various acids, alkalies and salts, pigments,
glass, pottery, soap and stearine,
bleaching, and dyeing,
and photography.
and the chemical processes of
The Chemical Library contains complete sets of all the import
ant journals, and is very fully supplied with works of reference and
the standard books on chemistry and allied subjects. Such additions
are made to it from year to year as are necessary to keep it abreast of
the times. It is accessible to all students, under such restrictions
only as are necessary to secure it against or injury loss.
The laboratories are openfrom 8 to 5:30 except on Saturday, when
they are closed at 1 o'clock. Instruction hours arefrom 8:30 to 1, and
2:30 to 5:30.
Forty-eight courses in chemistry are offered, as below.
Bracketed courses are not given in 1899-1900.
General Chemistry.
1. General Inorganic Chemistry, elementary, as follows, all
the subdivisions of the work being required.
a. Lecture. Two sections. T., Th., 12, Ch. L. R. 1. Professor
Caldwell, and Mr. G. A. Smith.
b. Recitation. In sections, as assigned. Assistant Professor Tre
vor, Dr. Carveth, and Dr. Taylor and Mr. EbersolE.
c. Laboratory practice. One hour (two and one-half hours actual