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Page 44 - THE SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL is devoted to instruction and researches in the mathematical, physical, and natural sciences, with reference to the promotion and diffusion of science, and also to the preparation of young men for such pursuits as require special proficiency in these departments of learning.
Page 18 - TERMS OF ADMISSION Candidates must be not less than sixteen years of age, and must bring satisfactory testimonials of moral character from their former instructors or other responsible persons. For admission to the Freshman class the student must pass a thorough examination in the subjects mentioned below.
Page xv - ... besides studies for some of the professors, where their private technical libraries are kept. The following is a summary statement of the collections belonging to the school: (1) laboratories and apparatus in chemistry, metallurgy, physics, and zoology; (2) metallurgical museum of ores, furnace products, &c.
Page 23 - Y's. For finding the nadir point, and the level and collimation errors, a collimating eye-piece and vessel of mercury are used. There is also a striding level for the axis ; an observing couch ; and a reversing apparatus traversing the floor on rails between the piers. This instrument, as originally constructed by Ertel & Sons, of Munich, had a thirty-inch circle at each extremity of the axis, outside of the piers. These were subsequently replaced by the present forty-inch circles on the axis inside...
Page 54 - The following is a summary statement of the collections belonging to the School : 1. Laboratories and Apparatus in Chemistry, Metallurgy, Mechanics, Photography and Zoology.
Page 54 - Zoological, and botanical (e.) IN NATURAL HISTORY. (Either Geology, Mineralogy, Zoology, or Botany may be made the principal study, some attention in each case being directed to the other three branches of Natural History.) JUNIOR YEAR. FIRST TERM — Zoology. — Daily Laboratory instruction; Zoological Excursions. Botany. — Gray's Text-Book; Use of the Microscope.
Page 55 - Young men desiring to become Mining Engineers can pursue the regular Course in Civil or Mechanical Engineering, and at its close can spend a fourth year in the study of Metallurgical Chemistry, Mineralogy, etc.
Page 16 - ... science. Until this professorship is filled, or during the time it may be vacant, the income from the fund appropriated to it shall be devoted to the care and increase of the collections. I further direct that the remaining sum of sixty thousand dollars be invested and accumulated as a Building Fund, until it shall amount to at least one hundred thousand dollars, when it may be employed in the erection of a suitable fire-proof museum building, upon land to be given for that purpose, free of cost...
Page 4 - ... productive brain-capacity as well as the material wealth of the country, cannot be estimated in dollars and cents. From all parts of the country come back most favorable reports of the graduates who have been sent out, and their influence, already great, is constantly on the increase. TABLE X.— SCHOOLS OF THEOLOGY.
Page xxvi - In natural history, either geology, mineralogy, zoology, or botany may be made the principal study, some attention in each case being directed to the other three branches of natural history.