II. Hydrodynamics. Investigations in the action of forces upon liquid bodies, either in producing equilibrium (hydrostatics), or motion (hydrodynamics), such as pressure, stability, flow through orifices, pipes, etc., under the influence of gravity, inertia, outer and inner friction. Four times a week during the first term. Professor HESSE.

Prescribed, Senior year, to students in the Colleges of Mechanics, Mining and Civil Engineering, and optional to others who have completed Course I.

III. Hydraulics, Hydraulic Motors, Pumps, Water Engines. And, in general, such machines and apparatus as operate through the agency of fluids, either in modifying motion or transmitting power. Twice a week during the second term. Professor Hesse.

Prescribed, Senior year, to students in the College of Mechanics; optional to other students who have completed Course II.

IV. Kinematics. Theoretical: Treatment of motion without reference to the cause which produces it, comprehending the study of pure mechanism, or the mutual dependence of the movements in the parts of a machine. Applied: Application of the preceding to the various kinematic problems connected with machine construction, such as link-motion, transmission by rolling and sliding contact, teeth of wheels, cams, etc. Twice a week throughout the year. Mr. RIXFORD.

Prescribed, Senior year, to students in the College of Mechanics; optional to other students who have completed Course I.

V. Thermodynamics. Mechanical theory of heat, and its application to the theory and construction of motors; of steam, gas and hot-air engines; of icemachines; and of air-compressors for transmission of power. Twice a week throughout the year. Professor HESSE.

Prescribed, Senior year, to students in the College of Mechanics; optional to other students who have completed Course I.

VI. General Machine Construction. Four times a week during the second term. Professor HESSE.

Prescribed, Senior year, to students in the College of Mechanics; optional to other students who have completed Courses I., II. and III.

VII. Laboratory, Construction and Experimenting. About six hours a week throughout the year. Professor HESSE.

Prescribed, second term of the Junior year and both terms of the Senior year, in the College of Mechanics.

Mechanical Drawing. See under Drawing.

Strength of Materials. See Course V. under Civil Engineering.

Graphostatics. See Course V. under Drawing.

CIVIL ENGINEERING.

I. Surveying. The theory of surveying. The instruction includes the theoretical discussion of the following points: 1. The construction, adjustment and use of all modern instruments used by surveyors in field and office work; 2. The field methods of making land, topographic, hydrographic, mine, city, railroad and geodetic surveys; 3. The office work involved in the making of maps and computations. Johnson's Theory and Practice of Surveying is used as a text-book, and is supplemented by lectures. Four times a week during the first term. Mr. RANDALL.

Prescribed, Junior year, in the College of Civil Engineering, and for a half-term in the College of Agriculture; elective, alternatively with Quantitative Analysis, Course VI., in the College of Mining; elective for a half-term, in the College of Chemistry.

II. Roads, Railroads and Canals. Recitations and lectures on the location and construction of roads, railroads and canals. Computation of earthwork and masonry by both analytic and graphic methods. Four times a week during the second term. Mr. RANDALL.

Prescribed, Junior year, to students in the College of Civil Engineering. Open to others who have completed Course I.

III. Field Practice and Mapping. Adjustment of instruments. Practice in plane and topographical surveying. Preliminary and location surveys for a line of railroad, together with the staking-out of the work, the making of estimates, etc. Finished maps of all surveys are required. Twelve hours a week throughout the year. Mr. RANDALL.

Prescribed, Junior year, in the College of Civil Engineering, and for a half-term in the College of Agriculture; elective, alternatively with Quantitative Analysis, Course VI., in the College of Mining; elective for a half-term, in the College of Chemistry.

IV. Sanitary Engineering. Recitations and lectures on the ventilation of buildings, the practical construction of works for water-supply and sewerage of cities, and for drainage of agricultural lands. Four times a week during the second term. Professor SOULÉ.

Prescribed, Senior year, in the College of Civil Engineering. Open to students who have taken Hydrodynamics, Course II. under Mechanical Engineering.

V. Strength of Materials. Character and properties of building materials, such as iron, steel, other metals, timber, natural and artificial stones; practice in the selection of good specimens and the detection of poor ones. Discussions of the elastic and ultimate resistances of these materials; deduction of formulæ for safe and for rupturing loads of beams, etc.; designs of beams of uniform strength; discussion, by both analytical and graphical methods, of torsive stresses, plane of maximum shear, and internal strains. Lectures and numerous problems. Four times a week during the first term. Professor SOULÉ.

Prescribed, Semor year, in the Colleges of Civil Engineering, Mechanics and Mining. Only those who have completed the prescribed instruction in the calculus, Analytic Mechanics, Course I., and Graphostatics, Course V., will be admitted to this Course.

VI. Engineering Structures. Theory of joints, and of framing in wood and iron; boiler-plate joints. Theory and construction of solid and open-built girders, of roof trusses, bridge trusses, and railway bridges generally. Theory of suspension bridges. Lectures and problems. Four times a week during the second term. Professor SOULÉ.

Prescribed, Senior year, to students in the College of Civil Engineering who have completed Course V.

VII. Engineering Specifications and Contracts. Including the law of contracts as affecting the civil engineer, his obligations, guaranties, etc.; also, the forms of specifications best suited to contracts for roofs; for framed works; for trussed, arched or suspension bridges. Twice a week during the second term. Professor SOULÉ.

Optional, Senior year, in the College of Civil Engineering.

Structural Drawing. See under Drawing.

Analytic Mechanics. See Course I. under Mechanical Engineering.

Hydrodynamics. See Course II. under Mechanical Engineering.

Graphostatics. See Course V. under Drawing.

Construction. See Course VI. under Drawing.

I. Mining.

MINING, METALLURGY AND ASSAYING.

Lectures.

Relation of mining to other arts. Nature and occurrence of ores. Mining laws of the United States and Mexico. Location of claims. Prospecting; artesian and diamond-drill boring. Excavation; explosives and blasting. Tunneling: Systems of excavation and timbering. Shaft sinking: Systems of excavation and timbering; special methods for wet ground, such as tubbing, walling and boring.

Winning and exploration of deposits. Exploitation: (1) Deep mining. methods of excavating and supporting used for working veins, beds and masses. (2) Open-cut work, quarries, peat and lake deposits, placers and hydraulic mining. Systems of tramming, hoisting, draining, pumping, lighting and ventilating. General organization and administration. Four times a week throughout the year. Professor CHRISTY.

Prescribed, Senior year, to students in the College of Mining; optional to other qualified stu

dents.

II. Metallurgy. Lectures.

General Part: Relation of metallurgy to mining and other arts. Classification of ores and methods of their reduction. Ore crushing: Rock breakers, rolls, stamps, grinding and pulverizing machines. Sampling of ores and products. Fuels, and their relative value as heat producers. Furnace construction and classification. Fluxes and refractory materials. Metallurgical products.

Special part: In view of the local importance of the metallurgy of gold, silver, lead and quicksilver, the entire second term is devoted to a detailed study of methods in successful use for the reduction of the ores of these metals. In order to give the other metals the prominence which their importance demands, their treatment is reserved for the graduate Courses. Three times a week throughout the year. Professor CHRISTY.

Prescribed, Junior year, to students in the College of Mining; elective to students in the College of Chemistry; optional to other qualified students.

III. Assaying. Lectures and laboratory practice. Cupellation of gold and silver. Scorification assays of gold and silver ores. Crucible method for these ores. Parting gold and silver. Oxidizing and chloridizing, roasting and leaching, of gold and silver ores. Humid assay of silver bullion. Fire assay of ores of lead, antimony, tin, nickel, cobalt, copper, iron and fuels. Volumetric and electrolytic methods with copper, nickel, cobalt. Twice a week, in exercises of three hours each, throughout the year. Professor CHRISTY.

Prescribed, Senior year, in the College of Mining; elective, during the first term, in the College of Chemistry; the Course is also open to qualified students at large, and to special students of metallurgy.

IV. Metallurgical Laboratory. Experiments, on a working scale, in the crushing, sampling, concentration, roasting, leaching and amalgamation of gold and silver ores. Twice a week, in exercises of three hours each, during the second term. Professor CHRISTY.

Elective, alternatively with Construction (Course VI.) or Physical Laboratory (Course IX.), to Seniors in the College of Mining; optional to other students who have completed Courses II. and III.

Analytic Mechanics. See Course I. under Mechanical Engineering.

Hydrodynamics. See Course II. under Mechanical Engineering.

Graphostatics. See Course V. under Drawing.

AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE AND ENTOMOLOGY.

I. Agricultural Chemistry. First Term: Chemistry of plants and of their products. Nutrition of plants from atmospheric sources. Inorganic ingredients of plants, their importance and derivation; ash analysis. Physics of plants; mechanism of nutrition and movement of the juices. Germination and development of plants, and accompanying chemical changes. Second Term: Chemistry and physics of soils; their origin, formation, classification. Physical properties; their determination and influence; mechanical analysis. Chemical composition; relation to vegetable nutrition. Chemical analysis; its methods, utility and interpretation. Description and discussion of the different agricultural and climatic regions of the State; and of their soils, illustrated by specimens. Policy of culture and maintenance of fertility; exhaustion of soils by irrational culture; rotation of crops, green-manuring, subsoiling, thorough-drainage, irrigation; manures, their kinds, preparation,

use and value; the rational system of culture. General summary. Three times a week throughout the year. Professor HILGARD.

Prescribed, Junior year, in the College of Agriculture. This Course presupposes the completion of Courses I, and II. in Botany, and of Courses I., II. and V. in Chemistry.

II. Elementary and Economic Entomology. Demonstrations both from typical collections and from living specimens. Field and orchard studies of both injurious and beneficial insects, and practical demonstration of the application and effects of various insecticides. Special instruction in the use of the microscope in identifying minute insects injurious to plants, and diseases caused by vegetable parasites. Once a week throughout the year. Mr. WICKSON.

Prescribed, Junior year, in the College of Agriculture; elective, Senior year, in the College of Letters. This Course does not presuppose previous study of the subject, although such preparation is highly desirable.

III. Agriculture and Horticulture. Stock-breeding, dairying, fruit-culture and methods of farming. Under the last head attention is directed to methods of culture, farm implements and machinery, practice of irrigation and drainage and general field crops. The instruction in horticulture extends through the year, touching upon particular topics when they are most seasonable. Stock-breeding and dairying occupy the first term; and dairying, methods of farming and staple crops, the second term. Three times a week, with occasional excursions occupying an entire day or half a day. Mr. WICKSON, and such other lecturers as may be invited.

Prescribed, Senior year, in the College of Agriculture.

IV. Viticulture. A short special Course in the chemistry and analysis of musts and wines, and in practical vinification, is given during the vintage season, from September to the Christmas vacation, in the Agricultural Experiment-Station Building. Its laboratory and cellars afford ample room and great facilities for work, both practical and theoretical. The lectures are adapted as nearly as possible to the needs of the classes. Twice a week during the period named. Professor HILGARD, assisted by Mr. PAPARELLI.

The lectures are supplemented by daily work in the laboratory and cellars, under the charge of Mr. PAPARELLI and Mr. COLBY.

It is desirable that students entering this Course should have some knowledge of elementary chemistry; and previous experience in wine making will be a material advantage. Students maintaining good standing may, if they wish, continue the laboratory and cellar work to the end of the academic year.

A Course in viticulture proper, that is, in the culture of the grapevine, will be given during the second term of the coming year (1891-92), and regularly thereafter, by Mr. PAPARELLI.

V. Agricultural and Viticultural Laboratory. This laboratory is devoted primarily to the prosecution of chemical and physical researches in relation to general agriculture; such as the mechanical and chemical examination of soils, waters, agricultural products, natural and commercial fertilizers, etc., and the determination of technical questions relating to agricultural processes or manufactures. The results of this work are reported to the persons interested; and are published, currently in the form of bulletins, ultimately in the form of annual reports.