Practical Chemistry. In the second term special attention is paid to toxicology, and in the third term animal chemistry, including the examination of urine, is taken up.

The chemical laboratory occupies five rooms: (1) the main students' laboratory, 22 by 45 feet, with accommodations for 64 workers classed in two sections or "reliefs;" (2) the quantitative laboratory, 22 by 30 feet; (3) the apparatus room; (4) the professor's private laboratory; (5) a room in the basement fitted up for assaying and furnace work. A good beginning has been made towards a museum to illustrate chemical technology.

Laboratory expenses for students are low, not exceeding for chemicals and apparatus $10 a term. The value of apparatus given out is covered by a deposit of $10 made at the beginning of the term. From this, at the end of the term, the necessary charges are deducted.

CARLETON COLLEGE, AT NORTHFIELD.

L. B. Sperry, professor of physical science.

Physics. Taught from Norton's text book, one term in the senior preparatory year. Also from Snell's Olmsted, one term in the college

course.

Chemistry.-Begun in the freshman year. One term is given to elementary text book work, one to qualitative analysis in the laboratory, and one to molecular physics, nomenclature, and theory. Classical students are required to do six weeks of laboratory work, and scientific students twelve weeks.

IOWA.

Reports were received from the institutions described below and from Amity College, Griswold College, the Norwegian Luther College, University of Des Moines, Parsons College, Upper Iowa University, and Humboldt College. Details are given in the statistical tables.

Algona College, Simpson Centenary College, German College, Penn College, Central University of Iowa, and Western College did not report.

IOWA STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, AT AMES.

Physics. Professor J. K. Macomber. Professor Macomber also gives instruction in geology. Physics is required through the junior and sophomore years. In the first sophomore term mechanics is studied two hours a week and in the second term sound and light three times weekly. The juniors take heat in the first term and begin electricity, with three exercises a week. In the second term, twice weekly, they finish electricity and hear a course of lectures on the more prominent recent discoveries and generalizations of physics. In the "ladies' course in science," the second junior term of physics is optional. Instruction is given by lectures and recitations. Text book, Atkinson's Ganot. In the senior year there is a special optional course in physics. One

of the requirements for entering upon it will be proficiency in mathematics, and it is desirable that analytical geometry shall have been studied. The course includes the study of methods of physical investigation and the principles of scientific research. Practice in the laboratory is required two afternoons each week. Post-graduate courses are

also offered.

The collection of physical apparatus is large and increasing every year. Excellent rooms are fitted up for the physical cabinet and provided with suitable experimental tables.

Chemistry.-Professor T. E. Pope; J. S. Lee, assistant professor. Required through the sophomore year in all courses; also through the junior and senior years in the agricultural course, but partly replaceable by electives. In the ladies' course there is also a requirement in the second junior term of one hour a week in domestic chemistry. In the latter, such subjects as bread making, cooking in general, the composition of foods, the antidotes for the commoner poisons, adulterations and their detection, &c., are treated of. There are facilities for post graduate courses, in addition to the foregoing. The general course in chemistry is as follows:

Sophomore year.-First term: General chemistry, three times a week. Text book, Barker. Instruction is given largely by lectures. There are also two afternoons a week in the laboratory, in which the student becomes familiar with various chemicals and the manipulation of appa

Second term: Qualitative analysis, twice a week in the lecture room and two afternoons a week in the laboratory. About forty substances are analyzed. During this term instruction is also given in chemical problems.

Junior year.-First term: Quantitative analysis, four afternoons a week in the laboratory; Caldwell's Agricultural Analysis is the text book. Second term: Organic chemistry, twice a week; quantitative analysis continued, embracing volumetric methods and food analysis. Organic chemistry is taught both practically and theoretically.

Senior year.-First term: Lectures twice a week in agricultural chemistry. Second term: Lectures on food. The value and use of the protein bodies, carbohydrates, fats, and salts are discussed; also the value of different grains and grasses as food, the time for cutting, and the best methods of preservation.

The laboratories cover over four thousand square feet of floor, and can accommodate one hundred students at once, giving each a desk room of eight square feet. Each desk has gas, sink, and faucet, and those fitted for quantitative work are provided with filter pumps. Besides the laboratory, there is a large lecture room, with a store room of equal size.

The original investigations thus far made have been in the line of soil analyses and the analysis of corn and grasses.

Both studies were introduced at the opening of the college in 1869. Since then a laboratory building has been erected by the State at a cost of $30,000.

IOWA COLLEGE, AT GRINNELL.

Physics.-S. J. Buck, professor of mathematics and natural philosophy. One year is devoted to the study of Snell's Olmsted.

Chemistry.-Eliot and Storer's manual, with laboratory practice, is studied for two terms by the classical juniors and the scientific freshmen. In addition, the scientific juniors or seniors are required to spend at least one year upon analytical chemistry. Both qualitative and quantitative analysis are taught.

STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, AT IOWA CITY.

Gustavus Hinrichs, professor of physical science; W. C. Preston, assistant professor.

Physics. This subject, as ordinarily taught in the high schools, is counted on time on the requirements for admission, but not as a college study nor as equivalent to any of the courses described below. These are as follows, arranged by terms and classes:

Freshman year.-Fall and winter terms: Elementary laboratory work, one afternoon a week-required in the school of science.

Sophomore year.-Spring term: Daily lectures upon general physics— required of all regular students.

Junior year.- Fall term: Part of the course in determinative mineralogy relates to the physical properties of minerals-elective in the school of science. Spring term: Daily lectures upon meteorology, with training in all observations-required in school of science, elective in the philosophical course.

Senior year. Fall term: Daily experimental lectures upon optics, with lantern projections, introducing instrumental observations-required in school of science and elective in philosophical course. Winter term: Laboratory work in practical physics of a more advanced grade, with instruments of precision-elective in school of science. Spring term: Thesis work for students making a specialty of physics; to this the stu dent may devote two-thirds of his entire time during the term.

In addition to the foregoing, lectures are delivered as follows: To the juniors, ten lectures on electricity and magnetism; to the seniors, in the spring term, lectures on "Chapters in the history of physical science." Chemistry. This subject, as taught in the high schools, is counted like physics. The following courses of instruction are given:

Freshman year.-Spring term: Elementary laboratory work, two afternoons a week-required in the school of science.

Junior year.-Fall term: Blowpipe analysis, in connection with determinative mineralogy - elective in school of science. Winter term: Daily lectures upon general chemistry-prescribed in all courses. Spring

term: A practical course in qualitative analysis-elective in school of science.

The rooms assigned to chemistry and physics occupy the first story of one of the university buildings. They comprise a lecture hall, an analytical laboratory, a balance room, an optical room, a meteorological station, a magnetic observatory, and a library. A furnace room and a battery room are in the basement. No charge is made for laboratory work, but each student is held responsible for the apparatus intrusted to him. Text books in both sciences are used for reference only and are supplemented by the notes of the students. A long list of original researches is reported by Professor Hinrichs, representing, however, only his own work and not that of his students or associates.

The history of chemical and physical teaching in this university is not a record of continuous progress. Under the presidency of Dr. Black, in the years 1868 to 1871, a graded course of laboratory work was introduced and thoroughly developed. During Dr. Thatcher's administration, 1871 to 1877, this was practically exterminated, for reasons not at present given. The present administration is now making efforts to reintroduce such work in the newly organized division of the college known as the school of science.

Physics.

IOWA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, AT MT. PLEASANT.

Required one term in the preparatory school and two terms in the junior year. Text books, Quackenbos and Deschanel.

Chemistry. One sophomore term in elementary chemistry and one term in qualitative analysis are required. Quantitative analysis is optional. Chemistry and physics were taught at this university twenty-five years ago, but laboratories were not opened until 1868.

CORNELL COLLEGE, AT MT. VERNON,

Professor Alonzo Collin.

Physics.-The course occupies thirty-eight weeks. Text book, Atkinson's Ganot. Experiments are performed by the students under direction of the teacher. Each piece of apparatus is operated and explained by some member of the class in presence of the whole class. Original experiments are encouraged. The study is altogether obligatory.

Chemistry. Thirteen weeks in descriptive and theoretical chemistry, with Barker's text book, are prescribed. Twenty-five weeks are devoted to analytical chemistry, with four hours a week of laboratory practice. This is also prescribed, except that classical students may substitute Greek for it. Students are required to take notes to such an extent that any one acquainted with the subject could tell from them what work had been done. The laboratory is a room 35 by 25 feet, fitted with tables after the style of those at the Columbia College School of Mines.

OSKALOOSA COLLEGE, AT OSKALOOSA.

W. S. Barnard, professor of natural science.

Physics.-Peck's Ganot is studied in the preparatory department. In the junior year there is an advanced course. Students assist in the exPeriments.

Chemistry. Studied in the junior year. The text (Youmans) is illustrated by experiments performed by the professor and repeated by the students. The laboratory course in elementary chemistry, &c., is prescribed. Qualitative analysis is taught as an optional study.

TABOR COLLEGE, AT TABOR.

J. E. Todd, professor of natural science.

Physics.-There are three months of recitations from Cooley's text book, early in the course. Later, three months in mechanics and three or four months in general physics. Text book, Snell's Olmsted.

Chemistry. Studied by the juniors. There is a three or four months' course of recitations, with experiments and occasional lectures. Text book, Eliot and Storer. It is followed by an elective course in qualitative analysis, of from three to six months' duration, with daily laboratory practice.

NEBRASKA.

Doane College, at Crete, reports only elementary work in chemistry and physics, but some experimentation is done by students. For details, see the statistical tables.

Nebraska College and Creighton College failed to report.

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, AT LINCOLN.

Hiram Collier, professor of general chemistry and physics. Agricultural chemistry is taught by Samuel Aughey, the professor of natural sciences.

Physics. Instruction is given for one term in the preparatory school, from Cooley's text book. In the junior year, Olmsted is studied for two terms. There is the nucleus of a physical laboratory.

Chemistry.-Taught from Cooley's text book one term in the preparatory school. In the sophomore and junior years, three terms are given to chemistry, one general, the other analytical. The latter is optional with the classical students. Text books, Barker, with Eliot and Storer for analysis. Both qualitative and quantitative work is done.

In the industrial college agricultural chemistry is studied, including agricultural chemical analysis.

Both studies were introduced into the university at its opening in 1871.

MISSOURI. '

Besides the institutions described in the text, the following have reported: Central College, Pritchett School Institute, Lincoln College, La Grange College, Baptist College, and St. Louis University.