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(17) MECHANICS (Prof. Netoffsky), Senior Year— Second 



Term — 1 hour. 



A study of the general principles of the construction and 

 operation of machines, engines, boilers, telephone systems, and 

 appliances that a forester has occasion to use. Visits of inspec- 

 tion to the neighboring manufacturing plants and engineering 

 works are made during the term. 



(18) SURVEYING— PLANE AND TOPOGRAPHIC, AND 

 MAP DRAFTING (Prof. Ziegler), Senior Year— First and 

 Second Terms — 2 hours recitations, 6 hours drafting and field 

 work followed by 10 weeks' summer work making topographic 

 map of about 2,000 acres of forest land. 



Includes compass surveying; levelling (spirit and barometric) ; 

 plane-table and traverse-table work ; stadia work ; triangulation ; 

 practice in land surveying — particularly re-running old lines ; 

 testing tapes, transits, levels, etc. 



Text — Plane Surveying — Tracy. 



Equipment. 



Two Randolph Mountain transits ; one Young engineer's tran- 

 sit ; one Gurley engineer's transit with gradienter ; one plane- 

 table with telescopic alidade with stadia equipment ; two tra- 

 verse boards; two 16 and 18 inch Wye levels; open sight com- 

 passes ; barograph and aneroid barometers ; standardized steel 

 tape with spring balance attachment, etc. 



Drafting equipment includes two w^ooden and one precision 

 pantograph, polar planimeter, and blue-printing equipment. 



(19) ROADS (Prof. Ziegler), Senior Year— Second Term— 2 



hours. 



Lectures and field work (extra). History; traction principles; 

 grades ; drainage ; purpose and location of forest roads ; survey 



