Calendar: 1870-1871 Page 129

128 APPLIED SCIENCES III Department of φ &pplte& Sciences The object in view in this Department is to provide system of general education practical in its nature for the large class of young men who in after life are likely to be engaged in commercial and agricultural pursuits or in pro- fessional employments such as Civil and Military Engineering Surveying Architecture and the higher branches of Manufac- turing Art The whole course occupips three years and forms an ap- propriate introduction to that kind of instruction which can only be obtained within the walls of the manufactory or by actually taking part in the labours of the Surveyor the Engineer or the Architect Museums containing Mechanical and Physical Apparatus Chemical and Industrial products important and valuable collections of Models &c illustrating the subjects taught are open to the students Students who have passed two years in this Department and in addition not less than one year in practice under Civil or Mechanical Engineer are by special order of the Secretary of State for India in Council admitted to be Candi- dates for appointments to the Engineer Establishment in India The following are the subjects of the different Lectures given in this Department with the names of the Professors and Tutors Divinity- Rev Barry Principal Rev the Chap ain