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106 applied sciences 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 Lecture-room from to every Friday Field-work from 10 to every Saturday in Easter Term Second and Third Years Lecture-room from to every Friday Field-work half the class from 10 to on every alternate Saturday in Michaelmas and Lent Terms 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 outline of the course First Year Tuesdays from till alternate Wednesdays from till Geometrical constructions and principles of the curves occurring in the mechanical arts such as the Ellipse Cycloids Involutes and others with their application to Geering Cams Arches &c Delineation of the elementary parts of machinery and constructions in Civil Engineering and Architecture