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GRADUATE STUDIES IN THE SCIENTIFIC
DEPARTMENT.

School of Mathematics.—The Graduate course in the School of
Mathematics will consist of selected studies in the Higher Algebra,
Higher Modern Geometry, the Infinitesimal Calculus and some of its
applications, or in the elements of quaternions.

School of Natural Philosophy.—For Graduate studies in the
School of Natural Philosophy, the student is referred to the paragraph
"Practical Physics," page 34.

School of General and Industrial Chemistry.—Graduate Course.
—The principal part of this course will consist of practical laboratory
work on subjects of original investigation; but advanced reading
may also be prescribed, especially in the shape of the bibliography of
particular topics, to be looked up from various sources and condensed
by the student.

In the Agricultural Department there is a Graduate Scholarship
now in force. The incumbent can select the schools in which he desires
to work.

The Graduate course in the School of Agriculture, Zoology and
Botany consists in a prescribed course of study in Animal and Vegetable
Physiology, in Cattle Breeding and Cattle Feeding, and in Rural
Economy.

Natural History and Geology.—In this school no fixed course of
study will be laid down for Graduates. Subjects will be selected from
one or more of the branches included in the school, and assigned to
the students. As far as possible, original research will be required in
the treatment of the subjects chosen.