SECOND YEAR.

Geology and Mineralogy-Three days in the week: General principles, and application to agriculture and land improvement.

History and Diseases of Farm Animals-Three days in the week:

Physiology and diseases of farm animals; The natural history of animals injurious to the farmer, and the diseases of cultivated plants; The anatomy, physiology, and pathology of farm animals illustrated by preparations, dissections, &c. Practical veterinary surgery, and the principles and practice of shoeing, at the Veterinary Hospital, 9, Winthrop-street. -Once a week.

Land Surveying-Three times a week:

Levelling and triangulation; Construction of farm maps; Farm constructions; Works of drainage and irrigation. Practice of Agriculture-Three days in the week: Description of farm implements and machines; Improvement of land by shelter, fencing, draining, deepening, by admixture, irrigation, warping; Culture of farm crops, their varieties, place in the rotation,-soil and manures suited to them, -preparation of the land, digging, ploughing, &c.,-time and mode of sowing, after-culture, harvesting and application; The breeding, rearing, feeding, and fattening of farm animals; The dairy; Poultry; Bees; Choice and size of farms, capital required in farming, valuation of land; Practice of horticulture and of arboriculture.

In the model and experimental farm, and horticultural and botanical gardens (comprising 180 acres), now being founded contiguous to, and in connexion with the College, and of which the Professor of Agriculture has been appointed director; and in the Agricultural Museum the students in agriculture will have an opportunity of becoming familiar with the best kinds of farm animals and machines, and with the manual and mechanical operations of practical agriculture, horticulture, and arboriculture; whither, and also in occasional excursions, they are accompanied by the Professors of Agriculture and of Natural History.

For details of fees regarding the Schools of Engineering and Agriculture, see the rules and general view of fees, given pages 44 and 97.

SPECIAL COURSES OF INSTRUCTION,

DELIVERED BY PROFESSORS IN THE COLLEGE, BUT NOT REQUIRED FOR DEGREES.

CELTIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE.

In the Hilary term of each session, a course of lectures is delivered by Professor Connelan, on the grammatical construction and affinities of the Irish Language. The course includes an historical and critical view of ancient Irish literature, illustrated by reference to Keating's History of Ireland; the Annals of the Four Masters, and the publications of the Archæological and Celtic Societies.

ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY.

The Chemical Laboratory is open daily (except Saturday) from 10 till 4, under the direction of Professor Blyth, for such students as wish to prosecute a more extended course of qualitative and quantitative analysis, and for the purpose of original investigations in connexion with the arts or in the higher departments of scientific chemistry.

For details Professor Blyth may be consulted.

PRACTICAL MECHANICS AND CONSTRUCTION.

A special course of construction of machines, bridges, arches, roofs, stair-cases, in models, to a scale, from the plans previously prepared in the Drawing School, will be conducted in the practical mechanical workshop of the engineering department, by the Mechanist of the College, under the direction of the Professors of Natural Philosophy and Civil Engineering.

For details as to the special courses, the Registrar of the College may be consulted.

SCHEDULE OF FEES,

PAYABLE BY MATRICULATED STUDENTS DURING THE COURSES FOR UNIVERSITY DEGREES.

The fees are of two kinds, Matriculation and College fees, and the fees payable for attendance on the professors' classes. The former and one moiety of the latter, forming the first instalment, are payable immediately at the commencement of each session, and before the Registrar can place the name on the College roll. The second moiety of the class fees, forming the second instalment, must be paid on or before the 20th December in each year.

All fees are paid to the Bursar of the College.

Scholars do not pay the second moiety of the class fees.

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TOTAL,

13 0 0 *12 0 0 †7 10 0 6 0 0

This sum does not include deposit for subjects.

+ These sums do not include Clinical Medicine, nor Clinical Surgery, nor hospital attendance.

The final arrangements regarding the fees for the University degrees will be made by the Senate of the Queen's University. The provisional arrangements made by the Board of Colleges, and which are valid for all students having entered prior to the Senate's framing its final rules, are as follows:

* Medical Jurisprudence included.

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These sums are independent of stamp duty.

Matriculated students wishing to attend classes in their own Faculty or school, but not in the proper College course of their year, shall pay the professor's fee for each course, as given in the rules of fees, page 42, but not any further College fee. Matriculated students, however, wishing to attend classes out of their own Faculty or school, shall be considered in attending such as non-matriculated students.

Non-matriculated students wishing to attend the lectures of College professors, shall pay for each course the professor's fee, as given in the rules, page 42, and further, for each course, five shillings to the College.

Non-matriculated students may obtain the use of the College library by payment of fifteen shillings per session.

EXAMINATIONS

FOR SESSIONAL PROMOTIONS IN THE SEVERAL FACULTIES AND SCHOOLS, AND FOR PRIZES IN THE SEVERAL CLASSES.

By the constitution of the College it is necessary that every matriculated student, before being promoted by the Council from the class of one year in any Faculty or school to that of another year, shall be examined in the subjects which have formed his course of studies of that year, and shall have shown such proficiency as shall justify the several professors of those subjects in recommending him for promotion; and, in case of the professors not so recommending, the College Council will relegate such student to recommence the studies of that year, or those portions or subjects of them in which it may appear the student shall not have made reasonable proficiency.

These Examinations for promotion are held at the