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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT and manual dexterity required for the Intermedi 1te Examine- tion in Science and the Preliminary Scientific Kxa mination of the University of London For more extensive study of the tissues of the higher animals Students are recommended to take out the Course of Practical Physiology Chemistry An extensive Philosophical Apparatus Mineralogical and Metallurgical Collection valuable Chemical Museum and complete Laboratory are attached to the Chemical Department The first part of the Course is devoted to the study of the general principles of Chemistry and of Chemical Physics exemplified by selected portions of the Chemical and Physical histories of the Non-Metallic and Metallic Elements The second part which commences at the beginning of February deals in similar manner with Organic Chemistry the classification of organic compounds being illustrated by the particular study of conspicuous examples The text books recommended to be read in this Class are Roscoe's Elementary Chemistry 11 Bloxam's Chemistry and Miller's Elements of Chemistry '7 Practical Chemistry These Demonstrations commence with the Summer Session and terminate towards the end of July The instruction given is comprised in thirty lessons of two hours each and is so arranged that each Student performs the 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 Univer- sities of the Conjoint Examining Boards the Society of Apothecaries and of the Medical Boards of the Army and