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Excerpt from Annual Announcement of the Polytechnic College, of the State of Pennsylvania: Tenth Session, 1862-3; And Catalogue of the Officers and Students
There is a weekly exercise in manipulations, during which the students repeat, in the Labora tory, all the important experiments executed by the Professor in the Lecture Room. Mineralogy. - Crystallography; Form, Structure, Optical Properties, Chemical Characters, and Classification of Minerals. Gammon - Physical Geography; Study of the Earth's Surface; Influence of the Atmosphere, of Water, of Ice, of Volcanic Action, and of Coral Growth; Geological Periods; American Classifications and Systems of Rocks: Lithological and Paleontological Characters of each Formation Comparison of it with its English, German, and French Equivalents; Economic Geology; Artesian Wells. Students will make excursions withthe Professor, into the interesting neighboring localities of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
