DETAILS OF SUBJECTS OF EXAMINATION.

MATRICULATION. GREEK—

Accidence and the Syntax Rules of Arnold's Introduc­tion to Greek Prose Composition ; and

1864-65. Xennphon.—Anabasis, Books I., II., HI .

1865-66. Xenophon.—Anabasis, Books IV., V., VI.

LATIN—

. Accidence and the Syntax Rules of Arnold's Introduc­tion to Latin Prose Composition, Part I . ; and

1864-65. Cicero.—De Amicitia,

1865-66. Caesar.—De Bello Gallico, ILL and IV.

ENGLISH—

Accidence. Crombie's Etymology and Syntax, Parts II . and III. Morell's Grammar and Analysis.

FEENCII—

Voltaire.—History of Charles XII. Translation from English into French.

GKKMAN—

Schiller.—History of the Thirty Years' War. Translation from English into German.

ARITHMETIC—

Explanation of the common system of numerical nota­tion.

The nature of vulgar and decimal fractions ; comprising the rules for their addition, subtraction, multiplica-

SUBJECTS OF EXAMINATION—MATRICULATION. 6 5

tion, division, and reduction j with the reasons for these rules.

The rule of proportion. The extraction of the square roots of whole numbers

and of decimals.

EUCLID—

Tho first two books, including the definitions and the axioms, according to the text of Dr. Simson.

ALGEBRA—

Explanation of the meaning of Algebraical symbols and of the method of using them, especially the bracket.

Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of Algebraical expressions of an integral and of a fractional form.

Explanation of the meaning of an index, with the proof of the equation am . a" = om + ".

Reduction of expressions to their simplest forms. The solution of simple equations.

In the preceding cases the Student is required, when called on, to give the demonstration and explanation of the rule employed, and its application to particular examples.

HISTORY—

Any two of the following periods, together with the Geo­graphy illustrative of them :—

Greece.—To the Death of Alexander. Text Book : Dr. William Smith's History.

Home.—To the Social War. Text Book : Dr. Liddcll's History.

England.—To tho Battle of Waterloo. Text Book: The Students' Hume.

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY—

Somerville's Physical Geography, 4th edition. Chapters I. to XIV., and XVI. to XXII. inclusive.

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EXHIBITIONS AT MATRICULATION.

I.—CLASSICS. 1865.

GREEK—

Xenophon.—Anabasis, Books I , II., I I I . Eunpidcs.—Phcenissic Translation into Greek Prose.

LATIN—

Cicero.—De Amicitia; Virgil.—JEneid, Books III., IV. Translation into Latin Prose.

1866. GREEK—

Xenophon.—Anabasis, Books IV., V., VI. Euripides.—Phocnissa).

i Translation into Greek Prose. LATIN—

Caisur.—Do Bcllo Gallico, Books HI., IV. Virgil.—JEneid, Books III., IV. Translation into Latin Prose.

II.—MATHEMATICS.

The portions required for the Matriculation Examination, together with the Rules for finding tho Greatest Common Measure and the Least Common Multiple ; the proofs of those Rules ; the Theory of Proportion ; and the Solution of Quad­ratic Equations.

III.-LUSTOKY, PHYSICAL GUOGEAPHY, ENGLISH, AND FRENCH OR GERMAN.

As prescribed for the Matriculation Examination, but in­cluding the three periods of History before mentioned, and with the addition of the following books, namely :— ENGLISH—

Palgrave.—The Golden Treasury, Books L, U., IIL

FRENCH—

Moliire.— Lo Bourgeois Gentilhomme. GERMAN—

Schiller.—William Tell.

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EXAMINATIONS FOR THE DEGREES OF BACHELOR OF ARTS, BACHELOR OF LAWS, AND BACHELOR OF MEDICINE, AND FOR THE CERTIFICATE OF CIVIL ENGINEER.

JOKIOE GREEK—

Jclf's Greek Grammar, with the following books :—

1864-65.

Herodotus.—Book VII. • /Eschylus.—Persa:.

1865-06. Demosthenes.—Olynthiacs.-Homer.—Odyssey, Books I.-IV.

For the Ordinary Pass Examination it will be sufficient that Candidates shall have prepared the above books, with the references upon them in Jclf's Greek Grammar.

JUNIOR LATIN—

Madvig's Latin Grammar, with the following books :—

1864-65. Cicero.—Speech against Q. Caecilius, and the first

against Verres. Virgil.—Aincid, Books VH., VHI., IX.

1865-06. Cicero.—Speeches against Catilina, Virgil.—JE.neid, X., XL, XII.

ENGLISH AND LOGIC, PART I.—

English.—The History and the Structure of the English Language, as treated in Craik's Outlines of the His­tory of the English Language ; and in Parts II., IV., and V. of Latham's Handbook.

Logic.—The subjects treated in the Introduction and Parts I. and 11. of Thomson's Outlines of the Laws of

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Thought, and in Whately's Logic, Book II., chapters 1, 2, 5 (Parker's Editionj.

Additional for the Honour Examination. Mill's Logic, Book I. and Book IV., chapters 2, 3, 4, 5.

ENGLISH AND LOGIC, PART II.—

English.—Whately's Rhetoric, and Craik's Philological Commentary on Shakspere's Julius Caesar.

Logic.—Thomson's Outlines of the Laws of Thought, and Whately's Logic (Parker's Edition).

Additional for the Honour Examination.

Mill's Logic, Book I . ; Book H., chaps. 1, 2,3 ; Book III., chaps. 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 ; Book IV., chaps. 2, 3, 4, 5; and Book V. j Milton's Paradise Lost, Book I I . ; and Spenser's Faery Queen, Book L

SENIOR GREBK—

1864-65. Thucydides.—Book IV. JEschylus.—Agamemnon.

1865-66. jEschylus.—Eumenides. Thucydides.—Book V.

SENIOR LATIN—

1864. Horace.—Satires. Tacitus.—Annals, Books IV., V., VI., XI., XII.

1865. Sattust.—Catiline and Jugurtha. Horace.—Odes.

GEOMETRY AND TRIGONOMETRY—

Geometry.—Euclid I.-VI. inclusive, and XL, 1-21 inclusive.

Trigonometry.—The definitions of the Trigonometrical

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Ratios, with the proofs of the formula; expressing their relations to one another, for one, two, or several angles. The construction of Logarithmic and Tri­gonometrical Tables, and the mode of using them. The relations among the sides and the angles of Triangles, and the methods of solving them. The description of the principal instruments used in surveying, and the methods of determining heights and distances.

Easy problems depending on the preceding.

Additional for the Honour Examination.

The proof of Demoivre's theorem, and the principal formula; and series depending on it.

ALGEBRA—

The fundamental operations, simple and quadratic equations, proportion and variation, the three pro­gressions, permutations and combinations, and such questions and easy problems as arise immediately out of these subjects. ,

Additional for the Honour Examination.

The theory of indeterminate coefficients, the binomial theorem, the exponential theorem, vanishing frac­tions, the theory of converging and diverging series, the theory of probabilities with its applications to questions of Life Assurance.

ANALYTICAL GEOMETRY AND DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS—

The Differential Calculus.—The differentiation of func­tions of one and two independent variables ; Taylor's and Maclaurin's Theorems; applications to expan­sions, limiting values, questions of maxima and minima.

Analytical Geometry.—The application of the method of co-ordinates to the determination of loci, and the discussion of the properties of lines of the first and second degree ; with the general theory of the tangent.

. F. 3

70 SUBJECTS OF EXAMINATION,

The Integral Calculus.—The meaning of integration, the integration of explicit functions of one variable, the determination of the areas and the lengths of curves, and the volumes and the surfaces of solids of revolution.

Additional for the Honour Examination.

The differentiation of implicit functions, the change of the independent variable, and elimination; together with a more elaborate treatment of the portions required for passing.

The general properties of tangents, normals, and asymptotes, the radius of curvature, the properties of the evolute, the contact of curves, the theory of singular points and envelops, and the tracing of curves from their equations.

MIXED MATHEMATICS—

The equilibrium and motion of a point, a rigid body, and a fluid treated mathematically.

NATURAL PHILOSOPHY—

1864-65. Mechanics.—.The composition and resolution of forces ;

the equations of equilibrium of a point and of a rigid body ; the properties of the centre of gravity ; simple machines ; friction ; the laws of motion ; falling bo­dies ; projectiles ; circular motion ; the pendulum ; impact; fluid pressure j laws of equilibrium of liquids and gases; floating bodies ; relations of pressure, temperature, and density of permanent gases and of vapours, with applications to Meteorology ; descrip­tion of instruments ; history and description of the steam engine.

1865-66. Optics.—The laws of Reflection and Refraction; the de­

termination of the position and the magnitude of the images formed by mirrors and lenses, calculated to a first approximation ; chromatic dispersion ; descrip­tion of the principal optical instruments; the eye and

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the theory of vision ; the theory of interference, and description of the principal experimental facts of dif­fraction and polarisation; atmospheric refraction and the theory of the rainbow.

Astronomy.—Explanation of Astronomical Phenomena ; the description of the principal instruments, and the method of using them; the determination of the form and the magnitude of the earth, and of the distances, -the magnitudes, and the motions of the heavenly bo­dies ; eclipses and oecultations ; the theory of gravi­tation ; the fixed stars.

Electricity and Magnetism.—Permanent magnets ; mag­netic action of the earth ; distribution of magnetism over the earth ; methods of observation ; statical electricity ; electrical attraction and repulsion ; in­duced electricity ; the Leydcn jar ; lightning ; tho theory of the galvanic current; its action on the magnet ; induced currents ; electro-magnetism and magneto-electricity ; the induction coil; telegraphs.

CHEMISTRY, MINERALOGY, AND BOTANY—

General Laws of Inorganic Chemistry. Voltaic Electricity, so far as connected with the Laws

of Combination. Crystallography, according to the systems of Weiss,

Naumann, and Miller. Elementary Mineralogy, including the general prin­

ciples of the more important systems of Classification ' of Minerals. Tho characters of the groups character­

ised by the Electro-negative and the Electro-positive constituents respectively ; the Physical, Chemical, and Geological characters of the Native Metals, the Metalloids, and the Compound Minerals affording materials useful in the arts.

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany, so far as general anatomy and the systematic characters of classes.

COMPARATIVE ANATOMY AND ZOOLOGY—

Tho general anatomical structure of all the groups of the animal kingdom; the general principles of sys-

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tematic classification, as far as classes, orders, and the more important families and genera.

1804-65. Vertebrata.

1865-66. Invertebrata.

PALAEONTOLOGY AND GEOLOGY—

Fahcontology.—Tho distinctive characters of the more common fossils, marking all the main subdivisions of all the fossiliferous geological formations.

Geology.—General theories of the early history of the earth ; the action of natural causes in modifying the earth at present and in early times ; the mode of ob­serving in the field and forming Geological Maps and Sections. Chemistry and Mineralogy of igneous and metamorphic rocks.

ANCIENT HISTORY—

The History of the later Roman Commonwealth; the History of the Roman Empire.

HISTORY OP THE BRITISH EMPIRE—

1864-65. The General History to the Restoration.

1865-66. Tho General History from the Restoration to the

Accession of Queen Victoria.

CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL HISTORY—

The Rise and Progress of the English Constitution. The History of English Law.

POLITICAL ECONOMY—

The General Principles of the Science.

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L A W , P A R T I.—

Rights of Persons ; Personal Property; Contracts and Torts.

LAW, PART II.—

The Law of Real Property; Estates ; Conveyancing inter vivos; Wills and Intestacy ; Legal remedies for Torts relating to Real Estate,

LAW, PART HI.—

. Pleading ; Evidence ; Procedure; Crown Law ; and Criminal Proceedings.

LAW, PAOT IV.—

Equity ; Insolvency ; Admiralty; Courts of Inferior Jurisdiction.

CHEMISTRY (of the Medical Course)—

General Laws of Chemical Combination and the circum­stances which influence chemical affinity.

Crystallography as far as the fundamental forms. Principles of Chemical Nomenclature, including the use

of Formula; and Symbols. Chemical characteristics of the elements and their more

important combinations used in Pharmacy. The Cyanogen series of compounds. The constituents of Vegetables and Animals, including

the Chemistry of the chief healthy and diseased secretions, Blood, Milk, Urine, Bile, Calculi, &c.

Chemistry of food and poisons. The more important Sugars, Alcohols, Ethers, Fats and

Oils, and Organic Acids and Alkaloids.

PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY—

The determination of the specific gravity of solids, liquids, and gases.

The qualitative analysis of inorganic compounds.

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The principal tests for the detection of metallic poisons. The qualitative examination of Urine and Calculi. The ultimate analysis of organic bodies.

STRUCTURAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL BOTANY—

As in the Course " Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Botany."

MATERIA MEDICA, THERAPEUTICS, AND MEDICAL BOTANY—

Inorganic Kingdom.—Outlines of the various mechanical and chemical processes of pharmacy. The physiolo­gical action of medicines. The therapeutic use of medicines. Medicinal agents.

The metalloids used in medicine, and their compounds and preparations.

The metals used in medicine, and their compounds and preparations. Mineral Toxicology : antidotes, and treatment in cases of poisoning : re-agents.

Organic Kingdom.—Elements of botanical science, and vegetable physiology. The general botanical charac­ters of those plants from which medicines are ob­tained. Vegetable Toxicology: antidotes, &c

DESCRIPTIVE AND SURGICAL ANATOMY—

For Students of the Second Year.

The Bones, Ligaments, and Muscles.

For Students of the Third Year.

The Bones, including their Developement and Growth; the Ligaments, Muscles, Vessels, Nerves, and Viscera.

GENERAL ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND PATHOLOGY—

General Anatomy.—The Microscopic Anatomy of the so-called Fluids, Tissues, and Organs of the Human Body.

Physiology.—The Circulation and Coagulation of the Blood, Respiration, Absorption, Secretion, Digestion, Animal Heat; Innervation, including Smell, Sight,

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Taste, Hearing, and Touch; Locomotion ; Voice and Speech; Generation and Devclopemcnt.

Pathology.—The Structural Changes produced in the Body by Injury or Disease. The Laws which regu­late such changes. Specimens of Morbid Anatomy.

SURGERY—

Inflammation and its results. Ulceration. Mortification. Scrofula. Cancer.

Diseases andlnjuries of—The Skin and its appendages. Tho Areolar tissue. The Arteries. The Veins. The Muscles. The Tendons. Fractures and Dislocations.

, Diseases of the Joints. Wounds. Effects of Heat and Coldi

Injuries and Diseases of—The Head and Brain. The Spine and Spinal Cord. The Face. The Eye and its appendages. The Ear. The Nose and its passages. The Mouth and Gullet. The Larynx and Trachea. Wounds of the Thorax and Abdomen. Diseases of' the Male and Female Urinary and Genital Organs, The Rectum and Anus.

Hernia. Operations in general.

OBSTETRIC MEDICINE AND DISEASES OP WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

DRAWING AND MAPPING—

The use of the scale, compass, square, parallel ruler, and protractor; plotting work from field-books ; drawing and colouring of plans ; maps and sections ; hill shading and feature drawing.

Candidates are required to show their proficiency in this department by producing drawings with satisfactory evidence that they have been executed by themselves.

SURFACE AND MINING SURVEYING AND LEVELLING—

Surveying with the chain, the use of the cross-stafi", optical square, prismatic compass, circumferentor, and plane table ; surveying by triangulation, the adjust­ment and the use of the theodolite, and the calculation

7G SUBJECTS OF EXAMINATION,

of areas ; traversing for the survey of roads, railways, rivers, mines, and telegraphic lines ; surveying for a line of section, and tho adjustment of the level; determination of gradients ; setting off curves ;

. measurement of earth-work ; mode of keeping field-books for various kinds of surveying.

A sound knowledge of the theory of these operations is required, and also a practical skill in conducting them in the field.

THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL GEODESY—

Trigonometrical surveying, measurement of a base line, mode of running meridians and parallels, determina­tion of latitude, longitude, and azimuth ; surveying for. contour lines ; the use of the sextant, artificial horizon, chronometer, repeating circle, transit instru­ment and altazimuth, with the theory of their ad­justments; reduction of a survey to the level of the sea ; selection of stations and signals ; determination of heights by barometric observations ; marine sur­veying.

A sound* knowledge of the theory of these operations is required ; also a-practical skill in conducting them in the

• field. Candidates are required to show their proficiency in this

department by producing drawings with satisfactory evidence that they have been executed by themselves.

MECHANICAL DRAWING AND DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY—

The drawing of plans, elevations, and sections of ma­chines, and of engineering and of architectural struc­tures ; the theory and practice of perspective and of isometrical projection ; the projections of maps.

Candidates are required to show their proficiency in this department by producing drawings with satisfactory evi- -dence that they have been executed by themselves.

• The drawings to be produced by the candidate may be either of machines or of buildings.

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PRACTICAL MECHANICS—

• The theory of the transmission of power and tho princi­ples of mechanism ; the construction of the various parts of machines, such as framework, wheels, pinions, axles, cams, breaks, belts, levers, connecting rods, &c, &c, and the strength of the materials used in con­structing them; circular and reciprocating motion and regulators ; the theory of the sources of the power and prime movers; the measures of force, work and rate of work'; muscular power, water power, wind power, steam power, and the essential parts of tho machines for applying them ; hydraulic engineering, natural and artificial reservoirs, calculation of rain­fall and drainage areas, distribution of water for drainage, irrigation, and water supply; construction of canals, locks, and docks ; dredging and other sub­aqueous work; gas engineering.

ARCHITECTURAL MECHANICS—

The general theory of the strength of materials, viz., the power of the various kinds of stone, timber, and metal, to resist a crushing force, a tension or a trans­verse strain ; the destroying action of heat, moisture, frost, and atmospheric influences; the composition, durability, and tenacity of cements.

The principles of the equilibrium of structures, of foun­dations, piers, and walls ; the mode of covering spaces, forms, and thrusts for arches, vaults, quoins, and domes variously loaded, and the requisite abutments; the construction of roofs of wood and iron, and the strength of material to be employed ; the position and the .form of buttresses for strengthening walls and resisting thrusts of roofs and arches ; floors and flat roofs, and the various modes of trussing beams.

The description of the various styles of architecture, and the history of their successive developement; the principles of economical and of ornamental construc­tion, and of decoration.

The preparations of specifications and estimates.

7 8 SUBJECTS OP EXAMINATION,

THIRD HONOUR EXAMINATION IN ARTS.

SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE AND LOGIC.

The History and the Structure of the Greek, the Latin, and the English Languages.

The History of the Literature of Greece, Rome, and England General Principles of Philology and of Criticism. Logic and Rhetoric. Composition in Greek and in Latin.

Special Subjects of Examination.

1865.

Demosthenes.—First and Second Speeches against Philip, and the Speech on the Peace.

Herodotus.—Books I. and VII. Thucydides.—Books HI. and IV. JEschylus.—Prometheus Bound, Persa? and Agamemnon. Sophocles.—Antigone. //oraer.-Iliad, Books V., VI., VII., VIII. Horace.— Virgil.—JEneid, Books I.-IX. inclusive. Cicero.—Speeches for Miirena, -Milo, and Plancius; against

Catiline and Q. Cascilius, and the first against Verres. Tacitus.—Annals, Books I.-XII. inclusive. Milton.—Paradise Lost, Books I. and II. Speyiscr.—Faery Queen, Books I. and II. Shakspere.—Julius Casar and Hamlet.

1866.

i7«w/ote.—Books I. and VII. Thucydides.—Books IV. and V. JEschylas.—Prometheus Vinctus. Persa;, Agamemnon. Eu-

menides. Homer.—Odyssey, I.-1V. Horace. , Virgil.—JEneid.

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Cicero.—Speeches against Catiline and Cajcilius, and the first against Vcrres.

Tacitus.—Annals, Books IV., V., VI., XL, XIL Sallusf.—Catiline and Jugurtha. Milton.—Paradise Lost, Books I. and II. Spenser.—Faery Queen, Books I. and H. Shakspcre.—Julius Ca;sar and Hamlet. Translations into Greek and Latin Prose and Verse.

SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS.

Analytical Geometry, plane and of three dimensions. The Differential and Integral Calculus. Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Optics and Astronomy,

treated mathematically.

Candidates must also be prepared to answer questions in tho lower Mathematics.

SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCE.

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany. Elements of Comparative Anatomy and Systematic Zoology. Elements of Chemistry and Mineralogy. Geology and Palaeontology.

SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY.

1. The Rise and Progress of the English Constitution. 2. The History of the Reign of George HI. 3. The History of English Law. 4. The History of Roman Law. 5. The Principles of Historical Evidence and the Theory of the

Mythus. 6. The Character and Method of the Social Sciences. 7. The Principles of Political Economy.

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FOURTH HONOUR EXAMINATION IN LAW.

Law Part III. Law Part IV. Political Economy. Constitutional and Legal History. Roman Law. General Jurisprudence.

EXAMINATIONS FOR THE DEGREE OF M.A.

I.-SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE AND LOGIC.

Mill's Logic, Vol. I. and Vol. II., except Book VL Mansel's Prolegomena Logica. Campbell's Rhetoric. Donaldson's Varronianus, ch. 3, 4, 5. Donaldson's New Cratylus, Book I., Book HI., ch. 1, 5, 6, and

Book IV., ch. 2. With portions of Greek and of Latin authors, at the option'

of the Candidate, viz.:— One in List A, 1 ( One in List C,

or [• with i or Two in List B, ) I Two in List D.

A. Aristotle. Ethics, with Plato's Gorgias. Aristotle. Politics, with any one Book of Thucydides, Aristotle. Rhetoric, with Demosthenes de Corona and

JEschines in Ctcsiphontem, or other Ora­tions of Demosthenes of equal length in

' the aggregate. Plato. Republic. Thucydides. Books I.-IV. Thucydides. Books V.-VIII., with Xenophon, Hellenics,

Books I. and II. B. JEschylus. The Trilogy and one other Play.

Sophocles. Oidipus- Coloneus, QHdipus Tyrannus, An­tigone, and one other Play.

Aristophanes. Any four Plays. Homer. Iliad, Books I.-XII. HOmer. Iliad, Books XIII.-XX1V.

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D.

Homer. Odyssey, Books I.-XII. Homer. Odyssey, Books XHI.-XXIV. Livy. Books I.-V. Livy. Books V.-X. Livy. Books XXI.-XXVII. Tacitus. Annals. Tacitus, Histories, Germania and Agricola. Cicero. De Oratore, with either In Verrem Divi-

natio, Actio I. and Actio II., lib. 2, or in Catilinam, in Pisonem and in Vatinium, or pro Plancio, pro Murcna, and pro Milone.

Cicero. De Officiis, de Senectutc, de Amicitia. Cicero. De Republica and de Lcgibus. Cicero. Tusculana; Disputationes. Cicero. Do Finibus Bonorum et Malorum. Virgil. iEneid. ' Horace. Juvenal. Satires (except 2, 6, 9) and Pcrsivs. Lucretius, Plautus. Miles Gloriosus, Captivi, Trinummus, with

Terence, Andria, Adelphi, Heautonti-morumenus.

(Any [two

II.—SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS.

Candidates may present any one of the five groups following:

1. PURE MATHEMATICS—

Todhunter's Differential Calculus. Todhunter's Integral Calculus. Boole's Differential Equations. Gregory's Solid Geometry. Gregory's Examples.

2. SCIENCE OF FORCE—

Todhunter's Statics. Wilson's Dynamics. Griffin's Dynamics of a Rig' Miller's Hydrostatics. Airy's Tract on Precession. Dixon's Treatise on Heat.

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3. ASTRONOMY—

Hcrschel's Outlines of Astronomy. Airy's Ipswich Lectures on Astronomy. *Loomis' Practical Astronomy. The " Explanation" of the Nautical Almanac.

4. OPTICS—

Brewster's Optics. Lloyd's Optics. Airy's Tract on the Undulatory Theory. Hcrschel's Article on Light in the Encyclopaedia Me-

tropolitana.

5. METEOROLOGY AND MAGNETISM—

Herschel's Meteorology. Brewster's Article on Magnetism in the Encyclopaedia

Britannica. Maury's Physical Geography of the Sea. The Articles on Distribution of Heat and Distribution

of Magnetism in Johnston's Physical Atlas.

ILL-SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCE.

Geographical Distribution of Plants and Animals. ' And one of the following :

Physical and Chemical Characters of Minerals, including the Crystalline Angles of the more common species.

Or, Characters of the Natural Orders of Plants. Or, General External and Anatomical Characters of the

Classes, Orders, and Families of Animals.

IV.—SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY.

Principles of Banking, Currency, and Taxation. Or, The History of France.

• Note,—In 1866 Main's Astronomy win bo substituted for Loomlfl*.

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EXAMINATION FOR THR DEGREES OF M.B. AND M.D., UNDER THE SPECIAL REGULATIONS.

LATIN—

Cclsus De Re Medica.—Books I.-IV. Or

GREEK—

Xenophon's Anabasis.—Book I. DERIVATIONS or MEDICAL TERMS.

TRANSLATIONS PROM THE PHARMACOPOEIA.

BOTANY'—

General Anatomy and Physiology of Plants. Tho ordinary modes of Classification. The principal distinguishing characters of the following

Natural Orders: Aurantiacea, Apocynaceee, Berbcridacetr, Cruciferce,

Caryophyllacea, Conifercr., Cucurbitacece, Con-volvulacca; Compusita, Euphorbiacete, Labiata;, Legumiiiosrc, Lobcliacea, Mcnisjiermucea, Papa-vcraceic, liaminculaceo?, liosacco?, Scrophulariacem, Smilacea;, Solanacea?, Salicaceaj, Valerianacca;.

MATERIA MEDICA, THERAPEUTICS, AND WRITING PRESCRIP­TIONS—

The characteristics of Medicinal agents, their Physiolo­gical effects, Toxicology and Antidotes.

CHEMISTRY—

General Laws of Chemical Combination. Principles of Electro-Chemistry. Crystallography, as far as the fundamental forms. Principles of Chemical Nomenclature, including the use

of Formula; and Symbols. Chemical Characteristics of all the Metals and the

Metalloids used in Pharmacy, with their more im­portant combinations.

The chief constituents of Vegetables and Animals. The more important compounds of the Cyanogen Group. The more important Sugars, Alcohols, Ethers, Fats and

Oils, and Organic Acids and Alkaloids. Sufficient information on these subjects will be found in

Fownes' Manual of Chemistry.

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PRACTICAL C H E M I S T R Y —

The determination of tho specific gravity of solids, liquids, and gases

The qualitative analysis of inorganic compounds. The principal tests for the detection of metallic poisons. The qualitative examination of Urine and Calculi. The ultimate analysis of organic bodies.

PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY—

Kirkes and Paget's Handbook of Physiology.

ANATOMY.

SURGERY.

FORENSIC MEDICINE—

Taylor's Manual of Medical Jurisprudence.

THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE—

The whole range of Diseases falling under the care of the Physician, and particularly the most recent sug­gestions and recommendations in regard to their treatment. .

Candidates are required to write answers to the questions proposed, and further to exhibit their practical know­ledge by examining and reporting on cases submitted to them, stating in detail the nature of the disease, the diagnostic symptoms, prognosis, and treatment.

OBSTETRIC MEDICINE AND DISEASES OP WOMEN AND CHIL­DREN—

The Examination will be of a practical nature, includ­ing the diagnosis and treatment of the various com­plications that may arise in the Practice of Midwifery.

The varieties of Childbed Fever and Puerperal Con­vulsions.

The several Maladies, both Medical and Surgical, that may be described as peculiar to Women. The Can-didatc will be expected particularly to give his own' views as to treatment.

A similar practical knowledge will be required of the Diseases peculiar to Infancy and Childhood.

Sufficient information will be found in "Churchill's Mid­wifery," "Simpson's Obstetric Worts," "West on Diseases of Women," " West on Diseases of Infancy and Childhood."

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