The instruction given to the Artillery and Engineers during the second year’s residence is not entirely the same, as will be seen by comparing the accompanying table of the year’s study:—

Artillery.
Days.		Engineers.
Days.
Military art and legislation,22
Topography and geodesy,2828
Attack and defense of places,4444
Permanent fortification,44129
Artillery, machines, &c.,81—
Theory and practice of construction,4642
245245
Brought forward from first year,284284
Total,529529

We should not omit to state that there is a short course on the Veterinary Art.

The lectures, as before said, begin at 10 A.M., and they last usually an hour and a half, and are followed by work in the halls of study. It would appear, however, that very frequently the day’s occupation consists simply of work in the halls of study (or occasionally out of the school buildings, when the students are sent on some excursion;) and, accordingly, in giving the account of the studies, a day or day’s work will sometimes mean a lecture followed by drawing or other employment, sometimes this drawing or other employment without any lecture preceding. Taking a general average, the proportion appears to be about two lectures to five séances, i.e., sittings without lectures.

The system will be better understood by referring to the accompanying tables, which are translated from the Project for the Employment of Time for the year 1851–2, submitted for the approval of the Minister of War. The dates in the first column indicate the days of the commencement of each particular study. The school year, it should be said, begins on the 1st of December.

[EMPLOYMENT OF TIME FOR THE YEARS 1851–1852.]

Att Attendances.

LbW Lectures before Work.

TL Total of Lectures.

Month and Date.Second Division. First Year’s Instruction.Number of
AttLbWTL
December 1
December 2

Lectures on Military Art in Topography—ConventionalTints,

2
December 4

Study of Hill Drawing (in sepia with contour lines,)

2
December 6Military Art,Plate 1 . . . 5
Plate 2 . . . 5
Plate 3 . . . 5
Plate 4 . . . 5
Plate 5 . . . 9 		29439
January 12Front of Cormontaige24313
February 9Project of Field Fortification,Plate 1. Plan of the whole, . . . 3
Plate 2. Organization of a work, . . . 8
Plate 3. Details of Construction, . . . 4
Memoir . . . 4 		1957
March 3

Plan of Stability of Revetments, &c.,

999
March 13

Study of the Drawing showing the effect,

811
March 23Plan of a Building,Out-of-door work, . . . 9
Laying down and drawing,
Memoir, . . . 23 		32
April 29

Topographical Triangulation,

446
May 5

Defilement and Profiling on the Ground,

3
Project of a Building,Sketches, . . . 14
Drawing, . . . 24
Memoir, . . . 4
Estimate, . . . 3 		451222
June 28Survey with a plane-table,Out-of-door work . . . 0
Laying down and drawing, . . . 3 		131

One day free in case of bad weather,

1
July 14

To find the Variation of the Needle,

11
July 17Survey of Ground with theCompass,Out-of-door work, . . . 8
Laying down and drawing, . . . 2 		101

One day free in case of bad weather,

1
August 2

Reconnaissance Plan—Out-of-door work,

61

One day free in case of bad weather,

1
August 10Study of Shaded Drawing (Hachures and colored.)81
August 18

Laying down and drawing the Survey made with theCompass,

2
August 20Project of Fortification on LevelGround,Plate 1 . . . 6
Plate 2 . . . 30
Memoir, . . . 6 		42319
September
October 8Project of Fortification on HillyGround,Plate 1 . . . 19
Memoir, . . . 3 		22810
Nov. 3Last day of week,
Nov. 6

Leave for their Vacation,

There remains therefore in this division:—1st. Threefree days in case of bad weather; one after each survey. 2nd. Two daysat the end of the year, the 4th and 5th November. Total five freeday.
Total of the days employed 279 + 5 days free,284