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" Syllabus op Lectures and Instruction, 1891-92. "Practical Assaying and Metallurgy: Lecturer and instructor, the Director. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. " Practical Chemistry : Lecturer and instructor, the Director. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. " Theoretical Chemistry : Lecturer, the Director. Monday and Saturday. " Mineralogy and Blow-pipe : Lecturer, the Director. Laboratory—Monday and Thursday; field—Wednesday. " Geology and Geological Surveying: Lecturer and instructor, the Director. Laboratory— Monday and Thursday; field—Wednesday. "Mining: Lecturer, the Director. Laboratory—Thursday; field—Wednesday. "Land- and Mine-surveying: Lecturer and instructor, the Director. Laboratory—Monday; field—Tuesday and Friday. " Mechanical Drawing: Instructor, E. F. Adams, M.E. Friday. " Practical Assaying and Metallurgy. " Fuels, appliances, fluxes, &c, used in the dry assay of ores of gold, silver, lead, tin, antimony, copper, &c. Assay of gold, silver, and lead bullion, and wet assay of ores of iron, copper, lead, zinc, antimony, bismush, arsenic, manganese, &c. Preparation of pure silver; litharge assay; melting and refining base bullion ; amalgamation ; retorting. Text-book, ' Berringer's Assaying.' " Practical Chemistry. " Chemical manipulation ; acids; reagents; group reagents; separation of metals; properties of metals ; testing solutions ; testing rocks and minerals ; solution of mineral substances; analysis of simple substances; analysis of compound substances; quantitative analysis of sulphides and complex ores, coals, soils, waters, slags, limestones, &c. " Theoretical Chemistry. "Principles of chemistry; atoms; molecules; vapour density; quantivalence; chemical formulae ; the elements—their history, occurrence, preparation, properties, and uses ; compounds of the elements : their occurrence, preparation, properties, and uses. " Mineralogy and Blow-pipe Determination. " Systematic mineralogy ; properties of minerals —their cleavage, hardness, specific gravity, &c.; optical properties—refraction, reflection, double reflection, polarisation, lustre, phosphorescence; chemical properties—the application of the blow-pipe, supports, reagents, flame reactions, colour tests with borax heads, &c.; isomorphism, pseudomorphism, and allotropy; distribution and paragenesis of minerals ; classification of minerals—chemical system, economic system; descriptive mineralogy —non-metallic division, carbon group, haloids and salts, alkaline earth group, silicates, aluminates, with a description of the principal minerals of each group, aided by hand-specimens; metallic division—a description of the principal ores and compounds of the different metals, their occurrence, hardness, specific gravity, crystallographic form, colour, lustre, streak, composition, uses, distribution, &c. " Crystallography : The six systems, their axes, typical forms, modified forms, holohedral and hemihedral forms, macles, reading of faces, &c. "Geology and Geological Surveying. " Physical Geology.— -The earth as a planet, its form and motions; geological climate; the atmosphere; ocean ; solid crust; the interior of the earth. " Dynamical Geology. —Metamorphism; agencies modifying the crust of the earth—atmospheric, aqueous, chemical; weathering; sedimentation; classification of deposits—mechanical, aqueous, organic, and chemical; denudation and erosion. "Structural Geology.- —Stratification; jointage; contortion; faults, conformity, unconformity ; dip and strike; cleavage ; metamorphic rocks; intrusive sheets, bosses, dykes ; fissures; formation of quartz-veins, lodes, and metallic deposits; dynamics of lodes ; recovery of lost lodes. " Geological Surveying. —The practice of running natural sections ; noting dip, strike and inclination of strata and lodes; mapping geological formations ; collection of mineral and rock specimens. " Stratigraphical Geology. —Classification of plants and animals; fossils; blending of species ; geological record ; the study of characteristics, life, and distribution of formations from Archsan to recent times, with special reference to the geology of New Zealand. " Mining. " Shafts: Selection of site, size, modes of excavation in dry and wet rock, wet sand, and swamp ; timbering of shafts; ladders ; chambers—size, excavation, timbering; levels and drives— size, excavation, timbering; securing sets or inclines; mode of stoping, height and timbering of stopes; main passes, size, timbering, division; mullock passes—size, timbering, distance apart. Pumping and pit work—pumps and engines used in metal mining, force-pumps, plunger-pump, draw-lift, fixing pump pieces, bearers, friction-rollers, V-bobs, balance-bobs, main rods, flat rods, clacks, buckets, bucket-rod, catches, staples and glands; thickness of pipes; capacity of pumps. Ventilation—atmospheric pressure, vapour density ; ventilation of drives and underground workings by natural and artificial means ; furnaces, water-blasts, fans ; division of air-courses ; noxious gases met with in metal-and-coal-mines, their composition and detection. Explosives—their use in