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Departments.

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Partial differentials of surfaces and volumes. INTEGRAL CALCULUS, Integration of transcendental and irrational differentials, Differentials of higher orders, Differential equations, Rectification, quadrature and cubature in general; Calculus of Variations.

PHYSICS.

The department of physics is amply provided with illustrative apparatus for use in the lecture room, and an extensive Physical Laboratory has been instituted in the New Building. The laboratory is adjacent to the physical lecture room; connected by sliding doors so that the apparatus is convenient either for use in the lectures, or for the laboratory work. Instruction in physics embraces four kinds of work: i. Recitation, four exercises a week in which a text-book is used as a guide. 3. Physical experiments one day each week in which the student uses the instruments in testing the principles taught. • 3. Illustrated experiments one evening1 each week in which the more costly apparatus is used before the whole class, in such experiments as are difficult to perform and which are fnost effective when prepared for an audience. 4. The higher physical. experiments by advanced .classes consisting either of researches, or of reviews of careful, and elaborate experiments previously worked up by others. To prepare for the last named work, the student should have pursued Physical studies at least one term in the first three. The laboratory and the lecture room are in the first story above the chapel, and occupy the same amount of floor. During the past year about $3000, worth of instruments have been added to the laboratory outfit, and another $1000, is already allowed for its further enlargement. The collection of instruments embraces Accoustic apparatus from R. Koenig of Paris; apparatus for Heat and Molecular physics from J. Salleron of Paris; for Light, Optics and Electricity from Stoehrer ot Leipsic, and Browning and Newton of London; Pneumatic and Electrical apparatus from E. S. Ritchie of Boston; and a number of pieces prepared at the Mechanical Shops of the University.

ASTRONOMY AND GEODESY.

Temporary arrangements have been made for Observatory Practice by the erection of a small observatory and the mounting of instruments of convenient size for students' .use. DESCRIPTIVE ASTRONOMY is given by lectures, with Lockyer's Astronomy for a text-book. The Equatorial Telescope is in constant use during the favorable weather. PRACTICAL ASTRONOMY is given by lectures, practical work with the Meridian Circle, Sextant, Theodlite, etc., and Astronomical Calculations. GEODESY is given by lectures, practice and calculations. Some first-class instruments have been ordered and trigonometrical stations will be erected.