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The study in Political Economy comprises: 1. Defini- 

 tions and general idea of the science. 2. Production and 

 capital, and natural differences observable in capital. 

 3. Natural agents concurring in production. 4. The study 

 of labour; of the general conception of this, and of advantages 

 and disadvantages resulting from division of labour. 5. 

 Idea of value in things ; prices ; interest. 6. Influence of 

 the quality and quantity of the production on the increase 

 or diminution of population. 7. Consumption of products. 



Drawing is practised from the commencement to the close 

 of the professional curriculum. The instruction in this per- 

 taining to what may be required in the work to which the 

 students aspire, comprises: 1. Topographic drawing; the 

 representation of lands, according to the generally accepted 

 principles of procedure ; hand-drawings, washed with 

 China ink, or with an application of colours and conven- 

 tional tints. 2. Drawings of machinery, and elevations 

 of buildings. 3. Phytographic drawings, or representations 

 of species of vegetables. 4. Dasographic drawings, com- 

 prising plans or charts; phytographic, geognostic, forest 

 partitions, &c., &c. 



