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4. Define the terms-Accrescent, Estivation, Bract, Corym, Dehiscence, Didynamous, Exstipulate, Gynandrous, Introrse, and Spathe.

5. Give the leading characters of the following Natural Orders,—Malvaceæ, Leguminosa, Acanthaceœ and Liliacea.

ELECTRICITY AND METEOROLOGY.

Examiner.-S. B. PARTRIDGE.

1. Describe a cylinder electrical machine and explain its mode of operation.

2. What is the use of the Electrophorus, and what is the principle of its construction?

3. What effect would an insulated conductor charged with either electricity produce upon another insulated conductor placed in its immediate vicinity, and what would be the result of connecting the latter with the earth?

4. Explain the meaning of the term dew-point, and show how the dew-point may be ascertained by direct observation.

5. Explain the construction of any self-registering maximum and minimum thermometer with which you may be acquainted.

ZOOLOGY AND ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY.
Examiner.-S. B. PARTRIDGE.

1. Give a brief sketch of the structure and functions

of the Liver.

2. Trace the anatomy of the Heart upwards from the simplest form in which it is met with in the Animal Kingdom to the most complicated, and point out any analogies you may have observed between the different progressive types and the changes which take place in the human organ before, or soon after, birth.

3. Point out the manner in which the nutrition of Bone is provided for.

4. What is meant by a nerve of special sensation? 5. Into what grand groups is the Animal Kingdom divided, and upon what principles is the division based?

INORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY. Examiner.-F. N. MACNAMARA, M. D.

1. Mention the principal forms of carbon, what compounds does carbon form with oxygen? What is the composition by weight and volume of carbonic acid and how may its composition by weight be most accurately determined?

2. What gaseous bodies are bleaching agents, and how may they be prepared?

3. How may the quantitative analysis of a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and carbonic acid gas be performed?

4. What materials enter into the composition of glass and earthenware? In the possession of what properties do the two classes of materials chiefly differ?

5. What are the principal ores of lead, how may the metal be separated from them and subsequently from any silver with which it is united?

6 What are the relative advantages of zinc and tin plate, how are they prepared?

7. Explain the term "chemical equivalent." How may the equivalents of hydrogen, copper, and chlorine be determined?

8. What means, apart from their chemical analysis, may be employed for the identification of crystals?

9. What minerals resemble gold, and how may they be distinguished from it?

10. State the specific gravity, hardness, crystalline form and chemical composition of Iceland spar, quartz and diamond.

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, GALVANISM AND

MAGNETISM.

Examiner.-F. N. MACNAMARA, M. D.

1. Describe one of the processes for the determination of the amount of nitrogen in an organic body such as urea.

2. What is the general constitution of the fats? In what respects do the volatile fatty acids agree as regards their ultimate composition? Explain what is meant by the alcohol of such an acid.

3. Explain the formation of Ether and of Acetic acid from alcohol.

4. Give a brief sketch of the chemistry of human blood.

5.

What are the chief points that have to be attended to in the construction of a powerful voltaic battery ? 6. How may the identity of the voltaic current and the electricity of the machine be established?

7. Describe the construction and mode of action of Saxton's Magneto Electric Machine.

8. What connection has been discovered between terrestrial magnetic variations and changes in the appearances of the sun's disk ?

B. L. and L. L. Examinations.

JURISPRUDENCE.

Examiner.-W. A. MONTRIOU.

1. What was the earliest form of government, and how do you arrive at your conclusion?

2. Is there reason for supposing that any particular class of laws were always earliest in primitive civil society-if so, which were they, and why had they precedence?

3. Where do you place rules governing obligations of Contract, in the progress of primitive Law?

4. Analyse and explain the idea of jural obligation; and compare it with sanction.

5. Distinguish a Right to performance of a Contract from a real Right.

6. Classify and give a scientific account of the Rights following; viz., right of a guardian in or with reference to his ward; right of a father to the safety of his child; right of a Police Officer to the custody of his prisoner.

7. Are there any other jural obligations than those arising from delict and from contract? if so, give an instance or two.

N. B.-This question does not allude to quasi-contracts nor quasi-delicts nor implied contracts.

8. Distinguish a Criminal Criminal wrong from a Civil wrong; and the sanction of imprisonment for debt from imprisonment for theft.

What relation does the law of Rome-from the XII Tables to Justinian, inclusive-bear to the science of Jurisprudence?

10. Explain the following terms. Nexus, Res mancipi, Potestas, Jus gentium.

11. What was the earliest mode of testamentary alienation or succession, in Rome?

12. Enumerate the contracts re.

RIGHTS OF PROPERTY.

Examiner.-H. COWELL.

1. Define real property. What is an incorporeal heriditament? Give examples distinguishing between profits and easements.

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