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applied sciences The most important manufacturing processes are also ex- plained aud amply illustrated in this Course Access to some of the principal Manufacturing Establish- ments in the metropolis and its vicinity having been liberally granted to the Students of this Department they are ac- customed to visit them from time to time accompanied by the Professor of Manufacturing Art and Machinery They 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 VI Land Surveying and Levelling First Year men attend in Easter Term Second Michaelmas Third Lent 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 they are enabled to carry on extensively The opportunities hereby offered are such as with fair dili- gence and application will qualify Students to undertake at the end of their course whatever Railway surveying may offer itself VII Geometrical Drawing Comprehending the principles and practice of all graphical constructions used in the Arts either by the Architect Civil or Military Engineer Artist or Workman