Calendar: 1889-1890 Page 183

engineering 183 is also given in the use of the Testing Machine on Wednesday afternoons The Elements of Mechanism and Workshop Appliances in Longman's series of Text Books of Science are used by the Students and other Books are referred to as sources of infor- mation during the Course Surveying and Civil Engineering First Year Lecture Room from 15 to every Friday during the Academical Year Field Work at 10 every Saturday in the Easter Term The subjects dealt with in the First Year are The Appli- cation of Practical Geometry to the purposes of Surveyor and Engineer Standards of Length Scales Areas Division of Land Equalizing Fences Geometrically the Chain and Offset Staff Surveying by Chain Chain Angles Base Lines Field Book Surveying Symbols Continuing and Measuring Base Lines when Obstructed Ascertaining Dis- tances to Inaccessible Objects Erecting Perpendiculars with the Chain Classification of Surveys Practical Difficulties in Surveying Traverse Surveying Cross Optical Square Prismatic Compass Circumferentor Theodolite and Adjust- ments Level and Adjustments Level Staff Box Sextant Clinometer Hypothenusal and other errors in Chaining Meridian Variation Vernier Plotting Plan Drawing Trans- ferring Enlarging and Reducing Pentagraph Eidograph Levelling Field Book Errors in Levelling Flying Levels Bench Mark Plotting Sections and Cross Sections The Practical Instruction in the Field during the Easter Term consists in carrying out Chain Survey explanatory of the usual difficulties that are met with in practice Levelling is commenced and the various instruments which have been described in the lectures are used in the field