Calendar: 1860-1861 Page 123

124 applied sciences VI Land Surveying and Levelling First Year Lecture-room from to every Friday Field-work from 10 to every Saturda in Easter Term Second Year Lecture-room to every Friday in the Michaelmas Surveying at 10 every alternate Saturday and Lent Terms Third Year Levelling at 10 every alternate Saturday 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 The Course commences in the Easter Term which occurs in that season of the year when the growing crops prevent any surveying in the fields and leave the roads and the com- raons only accessible to the Students for field practice Students of the first year are instructed in the uses of the several Surveying and Levelling Instruments In the second and third terms of the surveying year viz in the Michaelmas and Lent Terms of the following college year the Students of the second and third year are engaged in actual field practice those of the second year in sur- Lecture-room to every Friday