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750. Field Surveying. [Newcomb and Assistants.]

9 hours a week.

This course accompanies 700. The student is required to spend three
afternoons a week throughout the Spring Term in Field Surveying and
Plotting. He is taught the use of the Chain, Tape, Compass, Level, Transit,
Stadia, and Plane Table. The work in the drawing-room consists in
making Computations, Scale Drawings, Profiles, and Contour Maps from
notes taken in the field. (Spring.)