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GEOLOGY. 
The course of instruction in this department is as follows: 
First Year. 
Botany and Zoology as an introduction to Paheontology—lectures throughout 
the year. 
Second Year. 
Lithology: Minerals which form rocks and rock masses of the different classes 
—lectures and practical exercises. 
Geology—Cosmical, Physiographic, and Historical—lectures throughout the 
year. 
During the vacation at the close of the second year, students pursuing the course 
of Geology and Natural History are required to prepare a memoir on one of the 
following subjects, to be handed in on or before November 1st: 
(1.) Report on the Geology of any district visited, embracing: a. Topographi¬ 
cal features and their cause, b. Surface Geology, c. Sections of Strata with lith¬ 
ological character, thickness, dip, strike and fossils of each bed. Sketches of rock 
outcrops, d. Suite of specimens of rocks and fossils, rocks 3x4x1 inches. 
(2.) Report on any special formation which may be examined, embracing: a. 
The geographical area of its outcrops, b. Its mineral character and origin of the 
material composing it. c. sets and collections of its fossils, d. Reading of the his¬ 
tory of its deposition. 
(3.) Report of any examined deposits of ores or other useful minerals: as a. The 
Magnetic Iron ores of New York and New Jersey, phenomena and history, b. The 
Limonite ores of the Alleghany Belt, character of deposits and age. c. The Zinc 
ores of Franklin or Friedensville. d. The Chromic Iron of the Alleghany Belt, 
where and how it occurs. 
Third Year. 
Economic Geology: Theory of Mineral Veins ; Ores, Deposits and Distribution of 
Iron, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Gold, Silver, Mercury, and other metals; Graphite, Coal, 
"Lignite, Peat* Asphalt, Petroleum, Salt, Clay, Limestone, Cements, Building and 
Ornamental ^tones, etc. 
Palaeontology: Systematic review of recent and fossil forms of life—lectures 
throughout the year. 
For graduation in 1872, students in this course will be required to present on or 
before the 15th of April, a Dissertation on one of the following subjects : 
(1.) The Mesozoic Sandstones of New Jersey and the Connecticut Valley; their 
geological phenomena, history and relations to the associated trap rocks. 
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