Calendar: 1859-1860 Page 118

118 APPLIED SCIENCES The Metalliferous Minerals will be fully described in the Practical Course during Easter Term The Course of instruction includes minute description of ail 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 XI Geology and "Mining Hour 9-10 on Wednesday and Friday Lent Term -descriptive geology Classification of Rocks into Aqueous Volcanic Plutonic and Metamorphic Mineral Composition of Strata-Arenaceous Argillaceous Calcareous Chronological classification of Sedimentary Rocks describing the principal fossils belonging to each great deposit Tertiary or Cainozoic Series New Pliocene Older Pliocene Miocene Eocene Secondary or Mesozoic Series -Cretaceous Wealden Oolitic Upper Middle and Lower Triassic Groups Primary or Paleozoic Series -Permian Carboniferous Devonian Silurian Cambrian Groups The mode of collecting cleaning and arranging Fossils Minerals and Rock specimens will be described Easter Term -Practical Geology in its application to Mining Engineering Architecture and Agriculture Hour Wednesdays and Fridays to 10 The Lectures delivered on the subject of Geology are in- tended to have especial reference to the important practical applications of that Science to Engineering Mining Architec- ture and Agriculture The Granites Syenites Porphyries Greenstones Serpen- tines Basalts Lavas Sandstones Limestones Clays &c will be described and the minerals peculiar to each noticed The application of Geology to pursuits connected with mining operations-for Coal Iron Copper Tin Silver Gold