Calendar: 1866-1867 Page 277

EVENING CLASSES 277 Grammar Translations Conversation books recommended Rev d'Orsey's Portuguese Grammar Gil Braz in Portuguese Sadler-Corrigo des exercises anglais Roquete-Portuguese and French Dictionary Fonseca-French and Portuguese Dictionary Vieyra-English and Portuguese Portuguese and English Dictionary XXIII -MINERALOGY GEOLOGY AND MINING Day and Hour of Attendance-Wednesday from to Michaelmas to Christmas -fHtneralogs The Course will commence with description of the Physical and Chemical characters of Minerals in General Physical -Crystallization Cleavage Fracture Frangibi- lity Hardness Lustre Colour Flexibility Double Refraction Touch Taste Odour Streak Powder Adhesion to the Tongue Magnetic and Electric Properties Phosphorescence Specific Gravity Chemical -Use of the Blowpipe Action of Acids &c The principal simple Minerals will next be separately con- sidered and the readiest mode of distinguishing them described The following is the order adopted Earthy Minerals -Rock Crystal Amethyst Cairngorm Avanturine Cat's-eye Opal Chalcedony Flint Onyx Agate Carnelian Heliotrope Jasper Hornstone Chert Garnets Idocrase Axinite Epidote Augite Hornblende Asbestos Tremolite Actinolite Felspars Zeolites Mica Talc Chlorite Calcite Fluor Selenite Barytes Strontian Salt Cryolite Combustible Minerals -Sulphur Bitumen Coal Jet Amber &c