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750. Field Surveying. [Newcomb and Assistants.]

9 hours a week.

This course supplements 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 (course 652)
consists in making Computations, Scale Drawings, Profiles, and Contour
Maps from notes taken in the field. (Spring.)