Calendar: 1868-1869 Page 144
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144 APPLIED SCIENCES Earthy Minerals -Rock-crystal Amethyst Cairngorm Avanturine Cat's Eye Opal Calcedony Flint Onyx Agate Carnelian Heliotrope Jasper Hornstone Chert Garnets Idocrase Axinite Epidote Augite Hornblende Asbestus Tremolite Actynolite Felspars Mica Talc Chlorite Calcite Fluor Selenite Barytes Strontian Salt Combustible Minerals Sulphur Bitumen Coal Jet Amber &c Minerals used in Jewellery -Diamond coloured varieties of Corundum Sapphire Ruby Topaz -called Oriental Stones Spinel Turquoise Topaz Emerald Beryl Hyacinth Tour- maline Lapis-Lazuli &c 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 Fee for Occasional Students 21 2s for the course 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 AVealden Oolitic Upper Middle and Lower Triassic Groups Primary or Paleozoic Series Permian Carboniferous Devonian Silurian Cambrian Groups
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