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two or more points. 3Iaps and plats of surveys. Second Term.—Shades, and perspective. [See Mechanical Department]. Topographical surveying and drawing. Surveys made with the transit and leveling instruments in the ordinary way, also by the more approved modern methods as adopted upon the government surveys of the United States, with the stadia, for the determination of heights above a datum plane of different points; Location of contour lines passing through points of equal height; Field sketching, etc. THIRD YEAR.—First Term.—Roads and Railroads. Preliminary surveys and final location of ideal roads by the actual use of engineer's instruments in the field; laying out on the ground of circular and parabolic railroad curves, turnouts, crossings, etc.; Elevation of the outer rail; cuttings and embankments ; plans, profiles, sections, etc. Second Term. Analytical Mechanics and Physics. [See Mechanical Department.] Third Term.—Analytical Mechanics and Physics continued. [See Mchanical Department.] Also, three vear students: Mahan's Civil Engineering. Building materials ; results of experimental researches on strength of materials ; masonry ; framing ; foundations ; embankment walls; canal locks; sea-coast improvements. FOURTH YEAR.—First Term.—Strength of Materials. Tensile compressive and transverse strength and elasticity of steel, iron, wood and stone, when in the form of beams, pillars, etc. Hydraulics. Flow of liquids through orifices, weirs, pipes, canals, rivers, and the distribution of water and gas in cities. Practical Astronomy. Use of the sextant, transit, equatorial and zenith instruments in the determination <jf latitude and longitude, by the method of equal altitudes ; circum-meridian altitudes; meridian transits, and any altitude of a star or the Sun. Second Term. Stability of Frames. Derivation of formulae for the strength and stability of the various members of trussed frames of all kinds, such as trussed bridges and roofs ; steel iron, and stone arches ; stability of a wall sustaining a building, roof, pressure of water in dams, or pressure of earth in embankments. Construction Drawing. Drawing of existing engineering constructions, with due regard to the most approved methods of uniting materials in structures. Third Term. Stone Gutting. Application of the theory of descriptive geometry and graphics to the determination of the dimensions and form of stone required in buildings; plain, groined, cloistered, skew, and other arches ; lining for tunnels,, etc. (•reodosy. Determination of the figure of the Earth; methods of conducting extended surveys of the Earth's surface; ordinary methods of measuring Base Lines ; method by the standard compensating rods of the United States Coast and Lake Surveys; running of standard meridians and parallels for Government Land Surveys, etc. Drawing. Finished drawings of bridges and other structures. •shadows s

MINING.

This department embraces two branches of studies : 1st. Engineering Operations; including mine surveys, the opening and working of mine*, all mining constructions, etc., taught at present in the College of Engineering. 2d. The subjects of Mineralogy, Metallurgy, Assaying, treatment of ores, Smelting, etc., as taught in the College of Chemistry. The course "in Engineering and in Metallurgy will be found under the head of those two colleges,