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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1873
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33 Drawing will also make room for an additional term in Botany or Chemical Analysis. It will be of great advantage to obtain a knowledge of the simple trigonometrical functions, and of logarithms^ and to gain practice in the use of the tables. The French or metric system of weights and measures should be familiarized. REGULATION PAPER. The following sizes and qualities of paper will be required in all the College exercises. Two scales are used, agreeing very nearly in the actual sizes, but adapted, the one to American inches, and the other to French centimetres. One or the other must be adhered to for the same class of exercises. Qualities.—For manuscript and unimportant drawings, a heavy flatcap paper, but slightly sized. For ordinary drawings, not colored, a heavy first quality smooth drawing paper. For drawings finished in colors, the best Whatman's cold-pressed paper. For topographical and right-line drawings and lettering, the best three sheet Bristol board. For Problems and Exercises, and First and Second "Vacation Jour* nals—American size—Size of page, 5 inches by 8 inches; width of margin, half an inch. French size—Size of page, 12.5 cm. by 20 cm.; width of margin, 1.25 centimetres. For Memoirs, Lectures and other manuscripts, and for Geometrical, Projection, Topographical, Eailroad and Typographical Drawings: American size—Size of page or plate, 8 inches by 10 inches ; width of margin, .75 inches. French size—Size of page or plate, 20 cm. by 25 cm.; width of margin, 2 centimetres. For Advanced Drawings and Theses, the Patent Office size, or the corresponding size in French measure, is selected. Larger sizes will be allowed only when deemed necessary by the Professor in charge. American size—Size of page or plate, 10 inches by 16 5 width of margin, 1 inch. French size—Size of page or plate, 25 cm. by 40 cm. 5 width of margin, 2.5 centimetres. CONTRIBUTIONS. Our friends and students are earnestly desired to send us specimens of material and manufactures, and drawings, models or photographs of machinery, bridges and other engineering and architectural works. Finished and detailed working drawings, perhaps otherwise useless, would be of great value for purposes of instruction. Illustrated circulars and —5
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