SECOND YEAR.-Detailed design of engine and boiler; connecting rods; pistons; valves; cylinders; valve gears; reversing motions; pumps; Board of Trade and Lloyd's requirements with regard to boilers; riveting; staying; mountings; furnace fittings; the influence of methods of manufacture on design.

THIRD YEAR.-Structural design; details of connections for various classes of work; preparation of specifications and estimates, etc.

FOURTH YEAR.-Mechanical.

This class is conducted as a Consulting Seminary, in which problems affecting the design of machinery and prime movers are brought forward and discussed.

Mining: Detailed designs of plant for mining purposes, such as poppet heads, ore bins, machinery layouts, etc.

Should a sufficient number of students offer themselves a special short course of lectures will be given on Naval Construction and Marine Engineering.

DRAWING OFFICE PRACTICE.

FIRST YEAR.-Lettering and printing; drawing of details from working drawings; sketching machine parts; preparation of tracings.

The details that are given to the students as copies are made as varied as possible, and each student is expected to take notice of and understand the drawings completed by others.

SECOND YEAR.-Detailed design of a simple engine; hoisting engine, crane, or similar machine.

In this year the work done is largely individual in character. The students are supplied with a short specification of requirements to be met, and the design is carried out by means of preliminary sketches and lay out, the details being worked up gradually from these. As far as possible the students' individuality and inventiveness are drawn on, and the application of first principles to the solution of the problems occurring in the design adhered to.

THIRD YEAR.-Detailed design of a structure applicable to the course taken by the student; quantities, specification, and estimate for the same.

In this year also the designing is done to the conditions which are supplied to the students, these being varied for the same class of structure so that they may clearly see the effect of such conditions on the design. Students are at this stage allowed more latitude with regard to the use of formulæ and standard proportions, although the checking by means of first principles is still insisted on.

FOURTH YEAR.-Design, specifications, etc., of such work as is indicated in the lecture courses.

This work is carried ont as far as possible under conditions similar to those employed in commercial establishments. Where possible those students in the First Year showing good progress are set to make detailed drawings for the Fourth Year students, and tracings of such details as are required.

73.-SURVEYING.

Mr. J. Haydon Cardew.

The course consists of lectures and field demonstrations. Students are also required to make surveys for themselves, and to undertake the whole of the necessary computations, to prepare plans and drawings, etc., and to make and reduce astronomical observations for time; latitude, meridian, etc.

The lectures treat of the history and development of the art of land, engineering, mining, hydrographical and hydraulic, and geodetical surveying, and astronomical operations in connection therewith; and discuss important modern methods.

COURSE I., for all students, treats specially of the aims, scope and general theory of different classes of land and engineering surveys; it embraces the description and practical manipulation of all kinds of instruments used in survey operations, together with their adjustments.

Demonstrations will be frequently made in the field, at which students will perform actual survey work under the direction of the Lecturer. Cartography will be treated in its general and special application to the different classes of surveys indicated above.

COURSE II., for Civil Engineering students, treats specially of Telemetry and Tacheometry, Hypsometry, Astronomical Surveying, Hydrographical and Geodetical Surveys, Tunnel and Shaft Alignment, and the Survey of Deep Bores.

COURSE III., for Mining Engineering students, treats specially of the general features of surface and underground surveys as applied to mining, the solution of typical problems met with in mining operations, the prevention and effects of subsidence in colliery workings, the survey of deep shafts and bore holes, and the special forms of cartography most suitable for the delineation of mine workings of various kinds.

BOOKS RECOMMENDED FOR REFERENCE. Johnson's Theory and Practice of Surveying; A Treatise on Surveying, by Middleton and Chadwick; Wilson's Topographic Surveying; Ganguillet's and Kutter's Flow of Water in Rivers and Channels; Merriman's Hydraulics; Bovey's Hydraulics; Robinson's Marine Surveying; Hawkins' Astronomy (Elementary); Chauvenet's Spherical and Practical Astronomy (Advanced); Doolittle's Astronomy; Clarke's Geodesy; Gore's Elements of Geodesy: Merriman's Least Squares; Wright's Adjustment of Observations; Brough's Mine Surveying; Lupton's Mine Surveying..

GEODESY AND ASTRONOMY.

Mr. T. F. Furber.

Historical development of geodetic operations.

Theory of Error and the adjustment of observations by the method of least squares.

Measurement of base lines. Base apparatus. Comparison of standards of length. Determination of coefficients of expansion. Thermometry.

Measurement of angles. Determination of instrumental errors. Trigonometrical levelling.

Computation of triangulation. Figure adjustment. Adjustment between bases.

Astronomical observation of time, latitude, longitude and

azimuth.

Reduction of star places.

Theory of the figure of the earth. Connection between astronomically and geodetically determined positions. Determination of earth dimensions from meridiau arcs and from a general triangulation. Deflections of the vertical.

74.-ARCHITECTURE.

Mr. J. Sulman.

HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE, illustrated by photographs and drawings; and BUILDING CONSTRUCTION, illustrated by diagrams and drawings, and samples of materials.

HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE.-The historical evolution of design in buildings from the earliest times to the present day, embracing Egyptian, Assyrian, Grecian, Roman, Romanesque, Byzantine, Saracenic, Gothic, Renaissance and Modern work.

BOOKS RECOMMENDED.-History of Architecture, by Fergusson (4 vols.) ; A History of Architecture, by Banister Fletcher (1 vol.)

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION.-Description of the nature and proper utilisation of building materials, and of the modes of construction adopted in the various building trades.

BOOKS RECOMMENDED.-Building Construction, Rivingtons (vols. 1, 2, 3); Building Construction, Elementary Course, by Chas. F. Mitchell; Building Construction, Advanced Course, by Chas. F. Mitchell; Practical Building Construction, by J P. Allen; Elementary Practical Building Construction, Stage 1, by Frank William Booker.

75.-MINING.

Mr. F. Danvers Power.

1. Prospecting, or the search for minerals.

2. Boring, and the appliances used in connection therewith. 3. Laying out mines (shafts, winzes, raises, adits, drifts, cross-cuts, stopes, etc.).

4. Breaking ground. Hand tools, rock drills, channelling machines, coal cutters, wire saws, steam shovels, dredges. Explosives and their use in blasting. Thawing.

5. Supporting excavations by timbering, masonry, or metallic supports. Pneumatic method. Freezing method. Filling.

6. Methods of extracting minerals. Quarrying, ground sluicing, hydraulic sluicing, extraction through bore holes, caving, stoping, longwall, bord and pillar, etc.

7. Haulage. Vehicles. Self-acting incline. Engine plane. Main and tail ropes. Endless rope. Aërial ropeways. Transport by shoots and pipes.

8. Hoisting. Windlass, whip, whim. Pit-head frame. Ropes, chains and attachments. Safety appliances. Buckets, skips and cages. Keps. Signalling.

9. Travelling. Steps, ladders, man engines Buckets. Cages. Trucks.

10. Drainage. Dams, surface and underground. Various means of lifting water.

11. Ventilation. Gases met with in mines. Natural ventilation. Artificial ventilation. Measuring and testing air.

12. Illumination of mines. Candles, lamps (oil and acetylene), electric lights.

13. Accidents. Common causes of accidents.

14. Mine management. Books to be kept. Employment of labour. Assay plans. Mine stores. Reports.

15. Mine examination. Points to be considered. Sampling Valuaton of mines. Financial problems.

mines.

16. Legislation affecting mining.

General.

17. Ore dressing. Desiccation. Reduction. Separation. Sizing. Classification. Concentration. Conveyers. Special methods. Trees. Weighing. Sampling. Disposal of products.

Text Books.-A Treatise on Ore Deposits (J. A. Phillips and H. Louis); Ore and Stone Mining (Dr. C. Le Neve Foster); Colliery Manager's Handbook (C. Pamely); Ore Dressing (R. H. Richards). The following books may also be consulted:-A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic Mining in California (A. J. Bowie); Mine Timbering (J. Storms); Mine Drainage, Pumps, etc. (H. Behr); A Text Book of Coal Mining (H. W. Hughes); Well Boring for Water Brine and Oil (C. S. Isler); Ore Sampling (T. Rickard and others); Mine Accounts and Mining Bookkeeping (J. G. Lawn).

76.-METALLURGY.

Mr. Basil Turner.

A course of about sixty lectures will be given during Lent and Trinity Terms for Third Year students in the Department of Mining and Metallurgy. Introduction: Physical and chemical properties of metals and alloys; fire-resisting materials; manufacture of charcoal, coke and gaseous fuels; pyrometry; general metallurgical processes and agents; types of furnaces; fluxes, slags, etc. Detailed descriptions of the methods of extracting the following metals from their ores:-Gold, silver, lead, copper, tin, platinum, antimony, zinc, nickel, cobalt, bismuth, mercury, aluminium, and iron. Students will be expected to make full notes at the lectures, and will be referred to the literature of the subject immediately under discussion.

All students are required to attend the Excursions to Metallurgical Works.

Every student is required to prepare a written description of metallurgical works visited at the excursions, and to prepare drawings and specifications for the erection of a metallurgical plant, as part of his final examination for the Third Year.

BOOKS RECOMMENDED.--Roberts-Austen's Introduction to the Study of Metallurgy; Grüner's Traité de Metallurgie; Percy's Metallurgy; Egleston's