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applied sciences 35 granted to the Students of this Department they are ac- customed to visit them from time to time accompanied by the Lecturer on Manufacturing Art and Machinery Thev thus see in operation the manufacturing processes which have formed the subject of their Lectures the mechanical ex- pedients which concur to the production of each are explained and the economy of the whole is pointed out on the spot No expedient is found more effectually to awaken the interest of the pupils to give them due sense of the import- ance of the studies to which their attention is directed and to fix in their recollection the mechanical knowledge they acquire Land Surveying and Levelling This course comprises Railway surveying both by the Chain and Theodolite levelling in all its branches running out Rail- way curves staking out the line for the contractors calcu- lating the cuttings and embankments It is strictly practical the Students are actually engaged in field operations which by the kindness of several noblemen and gentlemen in the neighbourhood of London who have given them access to their grounds and by the establishment of class during the Long Vacation immediately after the hay crops are cleared they are enabled to carry on extensively The opportunities hereby offered are such as with fair dili- gence and application will qualify gentlemen to undertake at the end of their course whatever Railway surveying may oiler itself VI Geometrical Drawing This Course comprehends practical Geometry in the most extensive sense of the term Plane Geometry the delineation of plane figures and curves and generally the solution of all the problems re- quired in the practical arts the use of drawing instru- ments &c