Annual Report of Sapporo Agricultural College (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: REPORT ON THE CHEMICAL DEPARTMENT. Prop. D. P. PEN HALLOW, B. s. President Win. Wheeler. I have the honor to submit the following report; During the past year, the Chemical Department has been placed in very good condition for the accomplishment of its legitimate work by the completion of the laboratory, and its equipment with apparatus, the larger part of which was received from America last spring. The rnineralogical cabinet is already full. The majority of the specimens are from Europe, are of convenient size for lecture room purposes, and represent various geological formations as well as minerals of special economical and scientific value. There have also been collected, during the past summer, quite a number of specimens illustrating the geological and mineralogical character of the island of Yesso, forming the nucleus of a larger collection. The chemical cabinet contains a good collection of various elements and their salts used for illustration in the lecture room; while for the same purpose, the various groups and compounds of organic chemistry are represented by a good collection of representative compounds. In connection with these, it is designed to form a collection of those substances which are important in industrial arts from a chemical standpoint, and the nucleus is already formed. INSTRUCTION. The course of instruction as pursued during the past year has involved the use of Well's Chemistry as a text book, with which was associated Eowne's Chemistry as a book of reference. An aquaiutance with the principles of Chemical Physics, and the characters and properties of the various elements serves as an introduction to practical chemistry, which commences the second term of the Freshman year, and extends over a period of one year. D...