The properties, strengths and uses of materials of construction. Steam engines and boilers. Solid and liquid fuels. Construction, running and testing of gas and oil engines. Horsepower of streams. Water wheels and turbines. Pumps and rams. Wind engines. Electric generators. Electric motors. Electric lighting. Transmission of power. Refrigeration. Motor Tractors and Ploughs. In the laboratory, students will make experiments in mechanics, in the running and testing of gas and oil engines, and upon materials of construction. Occasional demonstrations will be given on agricultural implements. Visits will be paid to works of interest in the neighbourhood. Books of reference: Coyer and Jordan's "Applied Mechanics". Ripper's "Steam Engine". Kershaw's "Internal Combustion Engines". Clarke's "Hydraulic Rams". Two written class examinations are held. Fee £2 2s. (b) Farm Buildings. This course of 40 hours, which will be held during the Summer Term, and is intended to supplement the lectures on this subject which are included in the class in Agriculture. It will consist of lectures, experimental demonstrations and drawing practice. The subjects dealt with will include : Strength and properties of materials of construction. Calculations relative to beams, floors, roofs, etc. Brick, stone and concrete walls, and foundations for same. Various types of roofs and roofing. Accommodation and foundation for machinery. Water supply. Road making. One written class examination is held. (c) Engineering Field Work. This course, which is one of 60 hours, is held during the Summer Term. Units of measurement in surveying. Surveying with special reference to farms and estates, including the laying off of plots of land. Levelling and section taking. Calculation of areas and volumes. Use of the principal surveying instruments. The preparation of drawings. Scales for same. Description of ordnance survey maps. Instruction will be given both in the field and lecture room. Students must be prepared to supply themselves, and to bring with them to the class meetings, such drawing equipment as may be considered necessary. Books of reference: Adam's "Practical Surveying ". Baker and Dixon's "Surveying". Haines and Daniel's "Surveying and Building Construction". Whitelaw's "Surveying ". Fee £1 1s. VIII. FORESTRY LECTURESHIPS. 1. Forestry. Lecturers-1908 William Dawson, M.A., B.Sc. (Agr.). (a) Ordinary Course. This course which qualifies for the B.Sc. (Agr.) consists of fifty lectures, and is held during the first half of the Winter Session. Excursions in connection with the lectures are made to woods and nurseries in the neighbourhood of Aberdeen. The lectures deal with: Climatic conditions and forestry. Forest soil, absolute and relative; situation, aspect, The forest trees of Britain, with special reference to those of economic importance, identification in summer and winter, seeds, seedlings, etc. Pure woods or one species woods, and mixed woods. The various trees forming pure woods; treatment of pure woods; management of mixed woods; suitable mixtures; underplanting. Forms of management and methods of regeneration; systems of natural regeneration in pure woods and in mixed woods; artificial regeneration; seeds; collection of seeds, cleaning, testing, germination; sowing and planting; implements and instruments, source of material; nursery, soil, situation, aspect, etc.; size, cultivation, instruments, etc.; sowing, transplanting, manuring; planting out, methods of planting, time of planting; care of young plantations, cleaning, thinning. Ornamental planting; care and treatment of park trees; hedge making, shelter planting. Forestry in relation to agriculture. One written class examination is held. (b) Supplementary Course. This course is held during the second half of the Winter Session, and extends to about 50 lectures. In it the subject matter of the Ordinary Course is dealt with at greater length than is possible during the first half of the session. In addition a preliminary study will be made of the following subjects: Utilisation of Forest Produce. Wood and its bye-products, timber structure, defects, decay, preservation. And of Forest protection; game; more important injurious insects, preventative and curative methods; fungi identification, effects produced, preventative and curative methods, wind, fire, etc. One written class examination is held. (c) Advanced Courses. Courses of lectures are delivered to students proceeding to the B.Sc. degree in Forestry, during both the winter and summer sessions. They will deal with the following subjects :— Forest mensuration; methods of managing woodlands; utilisation of forest products; forest administration. (d) Practical Courses. 1. Before proceeding to the final examination, students are required to show evidence of having had at least six months' experience in actual forest work. 2. In the Easter Vacation and during the summer, courses in practical work, nursery planting, etc., will be given in the forest garden at Craibstone, under the direction of the lecturer in forestry and the forester in charge of the woods on the estate. 3. Students are advised to add to their practical experience, if they possibly can do so, by residing for a few months in forest districts on the Continent. 4. Surveying of a small area of woodland; description of its geological features, soil, surface growth; condition of woods ; measurement of timber crops; preparation of a working plan, etc. Works of reference which are to be found in the library : "Studies in Forestry," Nisbet; “The Forester," Nisbet; “Manual of Forestry," Schlich; "Diseases of Trees," Hartig; "Forestry," Swappach; "Handbuch der Forstwissenshaft," Lorey, etc. Fee for ordinary course, £2 2s. Fee for ordinary and supplementary courses (combined), £3 3s. Fee for advanced courses—winter and spring, £4 4s. ; summer, £2 2s. 2. Forest Botany and Forest Zoology. Lecturer-1915 Alex. Stuart Watt, M. A., B.Sc. (Agr.). FOREST BOTANY. This course will include 150 hours' instruction, consisting of lectures and practical work extending over three terms. The lectures will deal with the following: The description and systematic position of trees of economic importance in Great Britain. The relation of forest vegetation to other types, with special reference to the causes, climate, edaphic, and biological, of their present distribution. Physiology, general and particular. Anatomy. Pathology. Practical. Identification of forest trees in the various stages of their life history, seeds, seedlings, etc. Macroscopic and microscopic examination of timbers and their identification. Pathology. Excursions will be arranged during the session. FOREST ZOOLOGY. The class consists of not less than 50 hours' instruction with practical work, extending over the winter session. The course deals with the following: - General account of Arachnida with more particular reference to Acarina. Physiology, and external and internal morphology of Insecta. Biology of insect development, metamorphoses, reproduction. Classification of insects and general characters of the various orders. Details of structure, of life histories and external conditions in relation to combating attacks of insects. General account of preventive and remedial measures. Insecticides and their uses. Detailed description of all stages of insects harmful in the nursery and forest, or to felled and converted timber. Identification from injuries and means of combat or prevention. Birds and mammals, useful and injurious described. Balance of Nature. Practical work will include the dissection of a typical insect, of specimens representative of the various orders; the recognition of insects important in forestry, in larval, pupal and imaginal stages; recognition from injury, etc. Fees Forest Botany (winter course), £3 3s. ; (summer course), £2 2s.; Forest Zoology (winter course), £2 2s. 3. Forest Chemistry. PROFESSOR HENDRICK. Students in Forestry will take Sections 1 to 7 of the General Lecture Course in Agricultural Chemistry. A few special lectures on the chemistry of timber and of forest products will also be given. Practical Course: The early part of this course will be the same as in the case of students of agriculture. During the latter part special exercises on forest products will be undertaken. Fee, £4 4s. 4. Forest Economics. See Agricultural Course. 5. Forest Surveying. See Agricultural Course. ANATOMY. FOUNDED IN 1839. Patron-THE CROWN. Professors--1860 (1841) Alex. Jardine Lizars, M.D., retired 1863, died 1866. 1863 John Struthers, M.D., LL.D., retired 1889, died 1899. 1889 ROBERT WILLIAM REID, M.D., F.R.C.S. The Anatomy Department consists of Theatre, Dissecting Room, Prosectors' Room, Museum, General Laboratory, Advanced Laboratory, Anthropometric Laboratory, and other subservient rooms. In the teaching, the facts of Anatomy are viewed in their scientific aspects and in their relation to Medicine and Surgery. The work in the Department is directed by the Professor and assistants throughout the day. WINTER SESSION. ANATOMY.-The class is divided into junior and senior sections, meeting upon alternate days for five days in the week, during two winter sessions in the Anatomical Theatre at 9 A.M. Arrangements are made for the objective study, in the Dissecting Room, Museum, and General Laboratory, of the various tissues and organs which have been considered and demonstrated in the Anatomy Theatre. PRACTICAL ANATOMY.-The work of this Class begins daily at 9 A.M. in the Dissecting Room, and is continued until 5 P.M., |