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4. A collection of models belonging to the School of Engi- 

 neering. 



5. A collection of models belonging to the School of Machinery. 

 G. A collection of models belonging to the School of Architecture. 



7. A technological collection. 



8. A collection of instruments used in land surveying, &c. 



9. A collection of models for use in teaching geometry. 



10. A collection of plaster casts. 



11. A collection of objects connected with forests. 



12. A library and reading-room of science connected therewith. 

 There are also laboratories : — (1) a chemical laboratory ; (2) a labora- 

 tory of natural philosophy ; (3) a mineral laboratory ; (4) a laboratory 

 of organic chemistry ; (5) a laboratory of technological chemistry. 



Further : — there is an arboretum, or forest garden ; 



And finally, workshops : — (1) for making models in clay ; (2) for 

 making models in plaster-of- Paris ; and (3) for making models in wood. 



The Polytechnicum is under the immediate controul of the 

 Minister of the Interior, and is governed by a director appointed 

 annually by the Sovereign, on the ground of his election by the 

 Professors ; a petit council, consisting of the director, his predecessor 

 in office, and three others, elected and appointed annually in the 

 same way, and the grand council, consisting of the collective body 

 of ordinary professors. 



The body of instructors, consisting of professors, lecturers, college 

 tutors, and assistants, number forty-nine in all. 



There are two sessions in the year : the winter session is from the. 

 1st of^, October to the l5th March ; the summer session from the 

 I5th of April to the 31st July ; and provision is made for profitably 

 employing the holidays and vacations in excursions or tours of 

 observation, with or without the assistance of professors. 



The following are the arrangements for study in the School ot 

 Forestry during the current year, from 1st October, 1876, to 31st July, 

 1877 :— 



Students of the First Yeae. — Winter Session. 



Geometry of Golids .... 



Drawing of plans and diagrams 

 Botany : morphology, physiology, and cryptoga- 

 mic plants ..... 

 Experimental physics .... 

 Eepetition of the same with the assistant . 

 Organic experimental chemistry 

 Conversational examination on the same 

 Freehand drawing . . ... 



