Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1892-1893 [PAGE 98]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. their appearance and disappearance. The student is required to familiarize himself with selected groups of paleozoic fossils, abundant illustrations of which are placed in his hands. The subject is presented in lectures and demonstrations, each group being considered in connection with its nearest living representative. (e) Economic Geology. The final term of this course is devoted to a study of the uses man may make of geologic materials, the conditions under which these materials occur, and the qualities which render them valuable. The instruction is given by lectures, with references to 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. Petrography is pursued by means of a blue-print adaptation of Rosenbusch for the crystalline rocks, and various authors for the fragmental. In paleontology Nicholson and Zittel are used for descriptions of the larger groups, Miller, for general distribution, and the various state surveys for species. Winter, spring, andfall terms, full study. Professor ROLFE. Required: Chemistry, i; Physics, i, or z; Mineralogy, i; Botany, I, or 6; Zoology, i, or 5.

2. Investigations and Thesis.—For students who select a geological thesis guidance and facilities will be afforded for individual investigations in the field and laboratory. Winter and spring terms, full study.

Professor ROLFE.

Required: Geology, 1. 3. Engineering Geology.—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 transformations 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. Winter term, full study. Professor ROLFE. 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.