200 PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS—SECTION J. 
3. Mechanical Drawing. 
4, Mathematics. 
5. Physics (with one term laboratory practice). 
6. Surveying. 
In the third year candidates are required to attend the 
courses of instruction and pass the examinations in the following 
subjects :— 
1. Drawing and Design. 
2. Materials and Structures (with laboratory practice). 
3. Mathematics, and one of the following :— 
A. Civil Engineering and Architecture. 
B. Mechanical Engineering and Machine Design. 
Every candidate is required to prepare and submit to the 
Board of Examiners an original set of working drawings and 
specifications of machinery or works. 
In Mining Engineering, the candidates are required to attend 
(in addition to the foregoing), a more complete course in Chemistry 
and Metallurgy ; also a course in Mineralogy and Mining. It is 
proposed to add a Department of Architecture as soon as funds 
are available. The object of the entrance examination is to 
ensure that the student has received a good general education, 
and that he is capable of profiting by the professional courses 
of instruction which he is subsequently to attend. The chief 
feature in the courses of instruction is the attention paid to 
practical instruction in the various laboratories. The Physical 
and Chemical Laboratories have been specially designed for their 
work, and are equipped in a most complete manner with every 
modern appliance for teaching Physics and Chemistry. The 
Mechanical Laboratory, which is under my own direction, is at 
present not all that could be desired, but it is proposed to make 
considerable alterations and additions, which, when completed, 
will place it on a level with any similar laboratory in England. 
At present we possess a testing machine similar to the one in the 
Melbourne University, which is capable of testing in tension, 
compression, torsion, cross-breaking, we., up to 100,000 pounds ; 
five lathes, drilling, planing, and shaping machines, driven by a 
pair of engines with overhead shafting. The engines are fitted 
up with apparatus for making complete tests of power developed, 
including Crosby and Richards’ indicators, Elhott’s tachometer 
and revolution counter, and an Appold brake dynamometer. 
There is also a vertical boiler, fitted with tanks and gauges for 
making experiments on evaporative efliciency. It is proposed 
to provide for experimental work of a complete character in 
connection with cement, friction and lost work in machinery, 
hydraulics, &e., and to add a hydraulic accumulator to the 
testing machine. 
Up to the present, a considerable number of specimens have 
been tested (for each of which an autographic stress-strain diagram 
