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JUNIORS. 



Autumn Term. — Mechanics completed, Peck; Anatomy, Lectures; Agri- 

 cultural Chemistry, Lectures ; TTorticulture, Lectures. 



Sj)n'ii(/ Term. — Principles of Human Physiology, J. C. Dalton ; Chemical 

 Physics, ]\Iiller; Principles of llhetoric, A. S. Hill. 



Summer Term. — Entomology, Lectures, Packard, Cook's Apiary; Meteor- 

 ology, Lectures; English Literature, Lectures, Cliambers' Encyclopedia. 



SENIORS. 



Autumn Term. — Zoology, Lectures ; Geology, Dana's Text Book ; Agricul- 

 ture, Lectures; Psychology, Bascom. 



Spring Term. — Drawing, Minifie's Geometrical ; Astronomy, White; Botany, 

 Laboratory work ; Constitution of the United States, Andrews ; Moral Philos- 

 ophy, Fairchild. 



Summer Term. — Civil Engineering, Lectures, Trautwine ; Political Economy, 

 Lectures : Landscape Gardening, Lectures ; Liductive Logic, Fowler. 



TEXt Books. — As text books are liable to be changed, students are advised 

 not to purchase books in advance without consulting officers of the College. 



Slight variations from this course of study will be necessary for the next 

 year, as shown in the catalogue. 



THE CHEMICAL DEPARTMENT. 



The Chemical Department received a better recognition from the authori- 

 ties of the College from the start than any other. Modern agricultural chem- 

 istry was not twenty years old when the College was founded. Li 1840 

 neither Liebig, Boussingault, nor James F. W. Johnston had written on the 

 application of chemistry to agriculture. Before the opening of the Col- 

 lege to students, in May, 1857, the room now used for the library was fitted 

 up as a chemical laboratory and put in charge of Professor L. K. Fisk, now 

 president of Albion College. Having been reared on a farm, and being familiar 

 with its operations, he saw at once the rich field of investigation that lay before 

 the agricultural chemist in the double work of investigating the laws of 

 husbandry and in qualifying others by his instructions for such investigations. 

 He could do little among the stumps, however, in out of door w^ork, but he at 

 once prepared and gave a course of lectures on Agricultural Chemistry. 



When Dr. Fisk left at the close of six years' service, the College was 

 fortunate enough to fill the place (Jan. 28, 18G3), with R. C. Kedzie, M. D., 

 the present professor of Chemistry. 



In 1871 a Chemical Laboratory was constructed, according to a plan made 

 by Dr. Kedzie, after a careful examination of eastern laboratories. Its cost 

 was $11,507.13. It was the first, I believe, of American colleges to put in the 

 Bonn Self-Ventilating Evaporating Hoods, which were in the Bonn building, 

 but had not yet been tried. It was the first also to have the working tables 

 end against the windows instead of between them. The laboratory is supj^lied 

 with water, and (1877) with gas, A description of the building and its several 

 rooms is given in the report for 1871, pages 9 to 20. It remains to be said 

 that this building, which was thought to be ample for all needs of the College 

 for many years, is now outgrown. Neither the lecture room, nor the working 

 room will longer accommodate, with any crowding, the students in chemistry 

 and its applications. The Legislature will probably be asked for an appropria- 

 tion for its enlargement. 



