Mineralogy.

Professor Ulrich.

1. Cyrstallography; systems of crystallization; laws determining modification of crystals; compound crystals; pseudomorphous crystals; description and use of goniometers.

2. Physical properties of minerals, discussed as far as essential to recognition and practical distinction of the various mineral species.

3. Chemical composition of minerals.

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4. Classification and description of the more important species and varieties of minerals; their modes of occurrence, association, and geographical distribution, with special consideration of those that are of economic value, as ores, in jewellery, and in the coarser arts, or of interest in a geological or physical point of view.

These lectures will be illustrated by specimens intended for close inspection.

Text-book: E. S. Dana's Text-book of Mineralogy.