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Subjects of Instbuction. The subjects of instruction, together with the syllabus of lectures, are as follow: (1.) General and mining geology. (2.) Mineralogy and blowpipe determination. (3.) Mathematics. (4.) Land- and mine-surveying. (5.) Mining, applied mechanics, and hydraulics. (6.) Ventilation and explosives. (7.) Hauling and winding. (8.) Pumping and pit-work. (9.) Practical assaying. (10.) Practical chemistry. (11.) Theoretical chemistry. (12.) Metallurgy of gold and silver. (13.) Physics. (14.) Practical astronomy. (15.) Mechanical drawing. Syllabus op Lectuees and Insteuction. General and Mining Geology. —(Lecturer, James Park, F.G.S.) 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 characteristic life, and distribution of formations from archsean to recent times, with special reference to the geology of New Zealand. Mineralogy and Blowpipe Determination. —(Lecturer and Instructor, James Park, F.G.S.) Systematic Mineralogy. —(l.) Physical properties of minerals, their hardness, specific gravity, &c. (2.) Optical- properties —refraction, reflection, polarisation, lustre, phosphorescence. (3.) Chemical properties. (4.) The application of the blowpipe, colour-tests, &c. (5.) Isomorphism, pseudomorphism, and allotropy. (6.) Distribution and paragenesis of minerals. (7.) Classification of minerals —chemical, economic. Descriptive Mineralogy. —(l.) Non-metallic division—carbon group, &c. (2.) Metallic division— a description of the principal ores of the common metals, and their New Zealand localities and modes of occurrence. Crystallography. —(1.) The six systems, their axes, typical forms, modified forms, &c. (2.) Holohedral and hemihedral forms. (3.) Beading of faces. Mathematics. —(Lecturer and Instructor, Mr. F. B. Allen, M.A., B.Sc.) Arithmetic (including the simple rules). —Weights and measures (those bearing on mining and assaying), greatest common measure, least common multiple, vulgar fractions, decimal fractions, proportion, problems. Algebra (Hall and Knight's Algebra).—The meaning and use of the various signs and symbols, the simple rules, greatest common measure, least common multiple, fractions, factors, symmetry, problems containing one unknown, simultaneous equations, quadratic equations, simultaneous equations with more than one unknown, problems involving quadratics and the use of several unknowns, practice in the use of formulas and their transposition. Euclid. —The first four books (Todhunter), including the definitions and axioms. Land- and Mine-surveyiug. —(Lecturer and Instructor, James Park, F.G.S.) Adjustments of theodolite, dial, level; chain and steel tapes; traversing with theodolite and dial; connecting survey with standard meridian ; ranging lines ; division of land; computation of areas by latitudes and departures ; reduction of slope measurements; off-sets ; chaining, computation of coordinates ; balancing survey; plotting survey and off-sets ; obstacles to alignment. Mine-surveying. —Different methods of connecting underground with surface meridian; magnetic variation; to reduce magnetic meridian to true meridian; conducting underground traverse with theodolite and dial; correcting magnetic survey by method of back- and fore-sights; holing. Mathematics. —Equations; logarithms; plain trigonometry; solution of triangles; calculating of last or connecting line ; of distance from working-face to nearest point on boundary of lease. Levelling. levels; practice with level and staff; grading roads, tramways and waterraces ; plotting and striking grades; calculation of contents of earthworks by prismoidal formula ; grading with Abney or reflecting level. Mining, Applied Mechanics, and Hydraulics. —(Lecturer, James Park, F.G.S.) 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 on inclines; modes 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 quarries and mines, relative strengths, action, gases evolved, composition ; charging bore-holes; firing explosives ; quantity to be used.

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