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Chemistry Notes.
The class in Qualitative Analyses has just begun the analysis of unknown substances.
Mr. L. T. Smith, a graduate in chemistry, goes to Cuba after Jan. 1, to work in a sugar laboratory.
The next lecture in the course "The Chemistry of Everyday Life" at Olathe, will be given Jan. 8.
The chemical department has received a large lot of apparatus and fine chemicals from Germany. This list included many special pieces of apparatus, and lot of aniline colors purchased by Mr. Franklin while in Germany.
Prof. Bailey expects to make a trip east during the holidays, visiting Washington, New York and New England; also the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University.
Mr. E. C. McClung, who is sugar chemist on a plantation in Louisiana, writes that he will return soon after Christmas. He has been kept very busy making analyses of the product from several mills.
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different animals. The frame work of about fifty different specimens in various stages of completion greet the eye and give a casual visitor some faint idea of the Professor's labors. The shop itself partakes of the nature of a combined blacksmith's shop, tanner's establishment, artist's studio, drug store, and carpenter shop. The departments of this seeming conglomeration are looked after by Messrs. J. C. Saunders, W. W. Wyland, C. E. Hite, J. Shaffer and W. S. Smith.
The Professor's work may be imagined, when it is remembered that each specimen must be made a study and that not only each muscle, bone and tendon must be known but also its position and tension for the attitude which is to be represented. With fifty specimens in the process of being mounted, it seems wonderful how the professor can retain all the minutiae of the anatomy which is necessary in order that the animal when mounted may appear life-like. The mounting of the skeleton, prior to forming the body, is a work of the greatest care and exactness.
Prof. Dyche since his connection with the University has made fourteen different hunting trips, returning each time with some rare specimens. These fourteen trips altogether make something near a period of five years and in them there was surely many a dangerous adventure and many a narrow escape. The Professor's book, "Camp-fire Stories" will be eagerly read by all who know anything of Prof. Dyche.
PROF. BLAKE.
Prof. Lucien I. Blake was born at Mansfield, a town near Boston, in 1856. Graduated at Amherst in 1877. Went to Germany in 1880 and studied under the famous Helmholtz. Received the degree Ph. D. from University of Berlin in 1883. After returning to America he accepted the chair of Physics and Electrical Engineering at the Rose Polytechnic. Came from that school to K. S. U. in 1888.
The prosperity of the school of Electrical Engineering is due to the impetus which Prof. Blake has given it. He is a firm believer in educating the hand as well as the head. His efforts have been to get the people to recognize the necessity of good mechanical training and awaken an interest in the science of electricity. His efforts in this line are achieving their end and already the school numbers students who are not traveling o'er the well known paths of research but have passed through them and are laboring in the, as yet, not fully explored fields of electricity.
The Professor is very modest about his inventions, but we all have heard of his system of Fog signals by electricity, using the water as a conductor. The Professor carried on his experiments in this line for two years unaided. Then the government kindly placed government vessels at his service and next year he will be allowed to experiment through the systems of light houses on the coast. The receiving apparatus of the Fog signal has been completed and now all that is necessary is a better form of sending apparatus. This the Professor hopes to attain during his next
summer's work. Besides this, the school of Electrical Engineering has made several improvements upon the telephone and has discovered several new facts in electricity.
The rain theory which he advanced he does not claim to be a truth, but merely a theory that is far more plausible than Melbourne's. The theory is: that since hailstones are often found with a granule of leaf or dust particle in the center, that rain or hail is caused oftentimes by the condensation of the moisture in the air around some minute solid body. If dust, smoke, etc., be introduced into an atmosphere saturated with moisture it will cause a precipitation. The experiments in the laboratory have shown that this is true to a certain extent and all that now remains, is to test it, using the heavens above as the object of the experiment.
Topeka is well satisfied with the professor's lectures there under the University Extension Society. He has also received invitations to deliver a course of lectures before the K. C. society and before the Trades Union of Topeka.
The class attending Prof. Blake's University Extension lecture on Electricity and Magnetism in Topeka now numbers about one hundred and fifty. That the course of lectures is complete and is more than a mere outline is apparent from the syllabus of the professor's fifth lecture there. The subject was electro magnetic induction, which was treated under the following topics: Induction current produced by a magnet, Cutting lines of Force, Induction a necessary result of the principle of Conservation of Energy, Induction currents produced by currents, Lenz's Law of Direction, Value of Induced Electro-motive Force, Mutual Induction of two Circuits, Co-efficient of Mutual Induction, the Induction Coil, the Bell Telephone, the Hughes, Edison, Berlin Hummings and Blake transmuters.
The Electrical Engineering department in K. U' owes its magnificent growth from the nebulous system in which it was prior to 1888, to Prof. Blake. Kansas has not lost all her leading educators yet.
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