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SCHOOLS OF CIVIL AND MINING ENGINEERING IN THE 
UNIVERSITIES OF DURHAM AND LONDON. 
The increasing demand for education in practical science has been 
recently provided for in the University of Durham, by the establish- 
ment of a course of instruction in Civil and Mining Engineering, 
with lectures in the Mathematical sciences, Chemistry, Metallurgy, 
Mineralogy, Geology, Surveying, Mapping, and Drawing, in addition 
to Ancient and Modern Languages. To theoretical instruction in 
such parts of these branches of knowledge as bear more especially 
on Practical Engineering, are added at Durham occasional survey- 
ing excursions, both in the field and underground, conducted by a 
practical civil engineer. More than thirty young men have, during 
the last year, been actively engaged in this new department of aca- 
demical study.* 
The locality of Durham, upon the margin of the great Newcastle 
coal field, and in the vicinity of the lead mines of Alston Moor, and 
Weardale, is in a peculiar degree favourable for a school of mining 
and civil engineering; enjoying advantages of position similar to 
those of the great Saxon school at Freyberg, near the mining dis- 
tricts of the Ertzgebirge and the Hartz. 
The University of London also is taking measures to institute 
examinations of Candidates for certificates of proficiency in Civil 
Engineering, and the arts and sciences connected with Mining. 
In University College, London, courses of preparatory experi- 
mental lectures and exercises in Natural Philosophy have, during 
the last year, been provided for the students in that establishment, 
who are destined for the Profession of Civil Engineers. 
And in King’s College, London, a course of lectures in Civil En- 
gineering, and Sciences applied to Arts and Manufactures, is at this 
time attended by more than fifty students, who have the opportunity 
of adding practical to theoretical knowledge in a workshop and la- 
boratory established for their use. 
SCHOOL OF MINES IN CORNWALL. 
Another proof of the direction of public attention to the col- 
lateral branches of our science has, within the last twelve months, 
* See Durham University Calendar, 1839, p. 10. 
