The total number of lectures in each branch of study, with the dates when they respectively commence and finish, and the period when the general examinations (_interrogations générales_) take place, are exhibited in the following tables, and we should add that the interval between the close of each course and the commencement of the chief yearly examination is devoted to free study. TABLE FOR THE SECOND OR LOWER DIVISION, FOLLOWING THE FIRST YEAR’S COURSE OF STUDY. [KEY] L No. of Lectures C Commenced. F Finished. GE General Examinations _Interrogations Générales._ ------------------+---+---------------------+--------------------- | L | Course of Lectures. |General Examinations. | | | _Interrogations | | | Gènèrales._ | +----------+----------+----------+---------- Subject of Study. | | C | F | C | F ------------------+---+----------+----------+----------+---------- Analysis | 48| 3rd Nov. |25 Feb. |13th March|18th March Mechanics | 40|21st March|29th June |24th July |2nd August & Machines | 40|21st March|29th June |24th July |2nd August Descriptive | 38| 3rd Nov. |3rd March |13th March|18th March Geometry | 38| 3rd Nov. |3rd March |13th March|18th March Physics | 34| 2nd “ |28th June |10th July |19th July Chemistry | 38| 5th “ |17th “ |10th “ |19th “ Geodesy | 35|20th March|30th “ |24th “ |2nd August French Literature | 30| 8th Nov. | 6th “ | | German | 30| 2nd “ |15th “ | | Figure and | 50| 4th “ |28th April| | Landscape | | | | | Drawing |---| | | | Total |343| | | | ------------------+---+----------+----------+----------+---------- [Annual Examination begins on the 1st Sept., and ends on the 25th Sept.] The work of the second year is almost identical in its general plan with that of the first. A continuation of analysis with mechanics in place of descriptive geometry is the work of the first four months, then comes the private study and the _interrogations générales_, and then again, from the middle of March to the middle of July, work of a more professional character, stereotomy, the art of war and topography, forms the natural completion of the pupil’s studies. Chemistry and physics follow the same course as during the first year, and terminate with the private study and the general examination at the beginning of August. The evening lectures in French literature and German end about the middle of June, and those in figure and landscape drawing at the beginning of May. The last portion is again given to private study and the great Final Examination.