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medical department 247 operations which are in most frequent use in the Laboratory for the purposes of analysis or research including the pro- cesses for detecting the chief mineral and vegetable poisons During this Course brief explanation is given of the prin- cipal phenomena developed in order to connect the facts ob served with the principles on which they rest This Course is adapted to the requirements of the University of London of the Society of Apothecaries and of the Medical Boards of the Army and Navy as well as to all who with objects professional or otherwise wish to obtain an acquaint- ance with the processes of Manipulation Materials for working are supplied free of charge but all damage done to apparatus must be repaired at the expense of the Student who may have occasioned the same The text-book in this Class is Bloxam's Laboratory Teaching Analytical and Experimental Chemistry In addition to the Chemical Course and to the Summer Class of Practical Chemistry accommodation is provided for those Students who may wish to acquire more minute acquaintance with certain subdivisions of the science than can be conveyed in regular course of lectures and demon- strations The Class formedfor this purpose is conducted in the Labo- ratory under the superintendence of the Professors and Demon- strators By this means each Student will be enabled to familiarize himself with the methods of analysis and the operations of research Attention will be particularly given to Analytical Chemistry including the preparation of the principal tests and reagents in state of purity-the exami- nation of the more important Metallic Ores as those of Iron Lead Copper Tin Silver Cobalt and Nickel-the Analysis of Coal-Building-stones &c and the various modifications of Organic Analysis Agricultural Chemistry comprising the examinations of