Address delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Geological Society of London, on the 21st of February, 1840 : and the announcement of the award of the Wollaston medal and donation fund for the same year / by the Rev. Professor Buckland.
- William Buckland
- Date:
- 1840
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Address delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Geological Society of London, on the 21st of February, 1840 : and the announcement of the award of the Wollaston medal and donation fund for the same year / by the Rev. Professor Buckland. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![realize at least some share of the success that attended Lavoisier’s application of chemistry to agriculture in France*. SCHOOLS OF CIVIL AND MINING ENGINEERING IN THE UNIVERSITIES OF DURHAM AND LONDON. The increasing demand for education in practical science has been recently provided for in the University of Durham, by the establish- ment of a course of instruction in Civil and Mining Engineering, with lectures in the Mathematical sciences. Chemistry, Metallurgy, Mineralogy, Geology, Surveying, Mapping, and Drawing, in addition to Ancient and Modern Languages. To theoretical instruction in such parts of these branches of knowledge as bear more especially on Practical Engineering, are added at Durham occasional survey- ing excursions, both in the field and underground, conducted by a practical civil engineer. More than thirty young men have, during the last year, been actively engaged in this new department of aca- demical study.']' The locality of Durham, upon the margin of the great Newcastle coal field, and in the vicinity of the lead mines of Alston Moor, and Weardale, is in a peculiar degree favourable for a school of mining and civil engineering; enjoying advantages of position similar to those of the great Saxon school at Freyberg, near the mining dis- tricts of the Ertzgebirge and the Hartz. The University of London also is taking measures to institute examinations of Candidates for certificates of proficiency in Civil Engineering, and the arts and sciences connected with Mining. In University College, London, courses of preparatory experi- mental lectures and exercises in Natural Philosophy have, during the last year, been provided for the students in that establishment, who are destined for the Profession of Civil Engineers. And in King’s College, London, a course of lectures in Civil En- gineering, and Sciences applied to Arts and Manufactures, is at this time attended by more than fifty students, who have the opportunity of adding practical to theoretical knowledge in a workshop and la- boratory established for their use. * It was said of Lavoisier, that in ten years he doubled the produce of his land in grain, while he quintupled the number of his flocks. No doubt this report is much exaggerated. See Durham University Calendar, 1839, p. 10.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22394345_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
