Bulletin of the University of Rhode Island : catalog number . for the purification and distributionof water are discussed, including reservoirs, settling basins, pumping machinery,etc. Three recitations per week, second term. Required of Seniors in Civil En-gineering. XIII. Tunnelling.—A study of the methods of making tunnel surveys andof the modern methods employed in tunnel construction. One recitation creditper week, second term. Required of Seniors in Civil Engineering. XIV. Contracts and Specifications.—A study of the fundamental principlesof the law of contracts, and their application to
Bulletin of the University of Rhode Island : catalog number . for the purification and distributionof water are discussed, including reservoirs, settling basins, pumping machinery,etc. Three recitations per week, second term. Required of Seniors in Civil En-gineering. XIII. Tunnelling.—A study of the methods of making tunnel surveys andof the modern methods employed in tunnel construction. One recitation creditper week, second term. Required of Seniors in Civil Engineering. XIV. Contracts and Specifications.—A study of the fundamental principlesof the law of contracts, and their application to engineering work. Two recitationcredits per week, second term. Required of Seniors in Civil Engineering. XVI. Vacation Reading.—Systematic reading during vacations on sometopic assigned by the head of this department. XV. Thesis.—The preparation of a thesis on some subject connected withthe work of this department, involving original investigation or credits per week, throughout the year. Required of Seniors in COLLEGE CATALOGUE. 63 Geology and Mineralogy, DR. WHEELER, DR. LEIGHTON, MR. HUNTLEY. Geology.—Under this subject historical geology is considered inoutline, attention being given, also, to those phases of dynamicaland structural geology which are particularly important. Specialattention is given to rock weathering and soil formation, and tothose characteristics of rocks which are of chief importance in con-nection with road construction. Determinative Mineralogy.—A short course dealing with theelements of crystallography is given, together with the physical andchemical characteristics of minerals, especially of the rock-makingminerals composing our soils. Laboratory work in blowpipe analy-sis and physical determination of minerals follows the crystallog-raphy. Subjects. _ I. Geology.—Two recitation credits per week, second term. Required of Juniorsin Highway Engineering. II. Mineralogy.—See Chemistry XI. History. MISS
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