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APPLIED CHEMISTRY. 
The instruction in Applied Chemistry extends through the second and third 
years, and consists of lectures, illustrated by experiments, diagrams and specimens. 
The subjects discussed are: 
I. Chemical.Manufactures: acids, alkalies, and salts. 
n. Glass, Porcelain, and Pottery. 
III. Limes, Mortars, and Cements. 
IY. Fuel and its applications. 
Y. Artificial Illumination: candles, oils, and lamps, petroleum, gas and its pro¬ 
ducts. 
YI. Food and Drink: water, milk, bread, tea, coffee, sugar, fermentation, wine, 
beer, spirits, vinegar, preservation of food, etc. 
YII. Clothing: textile fabrics, bleaching, dyeing, calico printing, paper, tanning, 
glue, india-rubber, gutta-percha, etc. 
VIII. Artificial Fertilizers: guano, superphosphates, poudrettes, etc. 
IX. Disinfectants, Antiseptics, Preservation of Wood, etc. 
During the vacation at the close of the second year, students in the course of An¬ 
alytical and Applied Chemistry will be required to prepare a memoir on one of the 
following subjects: (1,) Coal Tar Products. (2,) Madder, and its applications in the 
arts. (3,) Tobacco. (4*),The Ceramic arts as practised in America; to be handed in 
on or before November 1st; and for graduation, students of the third year will be re¬ 
quired to hand in on or before the 15th of April, 1872, the following Projdt: 
An Establishment to produce daily 400 carboys of Sulphuric Acid. 
The raw material may be either crude sulphur, iron or copper pyrites. If the 
latter be employed, the copper must be extracted by some chemical process, and 
may be sold as cement copper or may be refined and sold as ingot copper. 200 car¬ 
boys of the daily production may be sold as acid of 60° Baume', the rest must be oil 
of vitriol. 
The Projet will comprise: 
I. Memoir ; II. Estimates; HI. Drawings. 
I. The Drawings will include: 
1st. A general plan and elevations of the Works, showing the situations of all 
the buildings, furnaces, acid chambers, boilers, concentrating and other apparatus. 
2d. Details of the furnaces. 
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George Engelmann Papers 
