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GEOLOGY

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valuable. The instruction is given by text and readings from the various state and government reports, transactions of societies, and monographs in which these subjects are treated, as well as by demonstrations with materials from the collections of the University. In dynamic and historical geology Dana's manual is used as a reference book, and in economic geology Tarr's Economic Geology of the United States. Petrography is pursued by means of a laboratory guide adapted from Rosenbusch, Zirkel, Roth, Teall, and others. In economic geology the manuals of Kemp and Tarr are used as texts. In paleontology Nicholson, Bernard, and Zittel are used for descriptions of the larger groups, Miller for general distribution, and the various state

surveys for species.

Winter, spring, and fall terms, full slitdv.

Professor ROLFE and Mr. MOSIER.

Required: Chemistry 3b; Mineralogy 1.* 2. INVESTIGATIONS AND THESIS.—For students who select a geological thesis guidance and facilities will be offered for individual investigations in the field and laboratory. Fall, -winter, and spring terms, full study. Professor ROLFE. Required: Geology 1.

3. ENGINEERING GEOLOGY (for engineers only).—It is the object of

this course to bring together those parts of geology which will be of the greatest practical benefit to an engineer. The course will deal mainly with subjects connected with the origin, classification, and transformation of rocks, with the principles which govern the deposition and structure of rock masses; with the conditions under which the useful rocks and minerals occur, and the conditions which make them more or less valuable. The instruction is given by lectures and by demonstrations in the laboratory. LeConte's Elements of Geology. Spring term,

lull study. Professor ROLFE and Mr. MOSIER. 4. GENERAL GEOLOGY, MINOR COURSE.—This course includes a

selection of such geological facts and theories as should be known to every intelligent person, with such discussion of them as the time will permit. The subjects treated will be fully illustrated, and opportunity will be afforded for some study of rocks and fossils. I.eConlc's Elements of Geology. Winter term, full study. Professor ROLFE and

Mr. MOSIER.

COURSES FOR GRADUATES 101. PALEONTOLOGY.—A critical and comparative study of the fossils found in the rocks of Illinois. *Not required of students of the natural science group taking geology ia and c as a or. See pagi; 96.