Calendar: 1852-1853 Page 93

applied sciences 89 and also on excursions into the Country in which the actual field-work of the Geologist is explained and illustrated There is an Examination at the close of the Course by which the progress of the Students is tested Museum is in course of formation and already possesses many very interesting and instructive series of specimens Mineralogy With view to facilitate the sfyidy of Geology and of the Application of Mineral Substances in the Arts The Lectures will begin on the 13th of October 1852 and be continued on each succeeding Wednesday till the Christmas vacation after which they will be resumed and terminate about the end of March The Course commences with description of the Physical and Chemical characters of Minerals in general Physical -Crystallization Cleavage Fracture Hardness Chemical Use of the Blow-Pipe Action of Acids &c The principal simple Minerals are next separately con- sidered and the readiest mode of distinguishing them described The Course of instruction includes minute description of all the substances entering into the composition of Rocks and of those minerals which are also used in the Arts illustrated by an extensive collection of characteristic specimens and diagrams of the principal crystalline forms &c XL Engineering Workshop Students of the First Year on joining the Department are made acquainted with the different Tools and their practical application to the purposes of Carpenters' and Joiners' work by going through the processes of Preparing the Wood setting out and forming the various Joints used in Construe- tions of Wood after which they are employed in making Models in which the preceding Joints are combined so as to form Trusses for Roofs Bridges Girders and other Framings required for Buildings and other purposes and proceed from