shall be Masters of Arts or Bachelors of Civil Law or of Medicine or of Letters or of Science at the least, or they may be persons not members of the University.

9. Nominations of Examiners shall be made by a Committee of six persons, of whom three shall be the ViceChancellor and Proctors for the time being, and three shall be chosen by the Committee for Economics and Political Science. The tenure of office of the elected members and the procedure of the Committee shall be subject to the regulations of Statt. Tit. VI. Sect. I. E. §§ 2 and 3. The Committee for Economics and Political Science shall make regulations as to the dates for the nomination of Examiners. The Secretary of the Committee for Economics and Political Science shall act as Secretary of the Committee for the Nomination of Examiners in Economics and Political Science.

10. At the close of each Examination the Examiners shall enter and sign in a book to be kept by the Committee for the purpose a list of the Candidates who have satisfied them or have obtained distinction in the subjects of the Examination. They shall also make and sign two copies of this list, and shall cause one to be sent the same day to the Assistant Registrar, and the other to be affixed to a notice-board at the Schools.

II. When a Candidate has satisfied the Examiners, or has obtained distinction in the subjects of the Examination, the Committee shall issue a Diploma to the Candidate in the following form:

'This Diploma is to certify that A. B. of has pursued at Oxford an approved course of study in Economics and Political Science, and on (such a date) satisfied (or was adjudged worthy of distinction by) the Examiners appointed by the University to examine in Economics and Political Science.

Notice of all Diplomas so issued shall be published in the usual manner and shall also be sent to the Assistant Registrar. In the Diploma the words ' at Oxford' may be omitted in the case of members of the University who have kept by residence all the terms required for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

12. The Committee shall pay from the funds at its disposal to each Examiner such remuneration as the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors shall determine.

13. The Committee shall have power to require such fees to be paid by Students for attendance at lectures and for instruction, as it may deem expedient. The expenses of providing instruction and all other expenses incurred by the Committee shall be defrayed out of payments made by, or on behalf of, Students, or from funds otherwise provided, and shall not be defrayed out of University Funds.

14. The Committee shall make a report of its proceedings every year to Convocation.

The attention of Candidates is directed to Statt. Tit. VI. Sect. 1. C. § 3, clauses 10 and 11 (p. 50).

(ii) Regulations.

The names of all Students must be registered with the Secretary to the Committee (Mr. L. L. Price, Oriel College, Oxford), to whom all applications for information should be made.

The annual Examination will take place (until otherwise provided) on the first three days of the sixth week from the beginning of Easter Full Term of each year.

Every Candidate for examination must before admission to the Examination present a certificate signed by the Professor of Political Economy that he (or she) has pursued an approved course of study in Economics and Political Science.

Every Candidate must before admission to the Examination pay a fee of £2 IOS.

Papers will be set covering three days' examination. Of these papers three will be of general character, and two will be on Special Subjects to be chosen from various groups or subdivisions.

In the general part of the Examination one paper will be set on Economic Theory together with the History of Theory; a second paper will be devoted to Applied Economics and Political Science, and a third paper will consist of questions on Economic and Constitutional History (comprising the Industrial and Commercial History of the United Kingdom and the History of Constitutional Development in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) together with Economic Geography.

By Economic Theory will be meant the Principles of Economics as expounded in recognized modern treatises.

The subject of Political Science will include the functions and machinery of Government (central and local) with special reference to England; financial policy and control; poor relief and education; and the relations between administrative authorities and (a) the Legislature, (b) the Judiciary; together with the history of political ideas during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Every Candidate will be required to offer two Special Subjects. A list from which choice may be made is subjoined :

A. I. On some Special Branch of Economic Theory:

(1) The theory of value, with especial reference to its historical development.

(2) The theory of rent, with especial reference to recent extensions and practical applications.

(3) The theory of wages, with especial reference to the different theories which have been advanced at different times by different writers. (4) The theory of international trade and value.

(5) The nature and functions of capital as defined by different writers, together with the development of the conception of interest.

(6) The nature of profits as described at different periods by different writers, together with the functions of the entrepreneur.

(7) The functions of money and of credit, as described by different writers.

(8) The principles and incidence of taxation.

II. On some Particular School of Economic Thought :

(9) The Physiocrats.

(10) The Historical School.

(11) The Austrian Economists.

(12) The Socialists.

III. On the Treatise of some Leading Economist:

(13) Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations.

(14) Malthus' Essay on Population.

(15) Ricardo's Principles of Political Economy and Taxation.
(N.B. No other treatises will be allowed.)

B. IV. On some Special Period of Economic History :—

(16) The Reign of Elizabeth.

(17) The Rise and Decline of the Mercantile System.

C. V. On some Special Branch of Applied Economics (including Statistical Method and Economic Geography):

(18) The History and Treatment of Pauperism.

(19) The Economics of Transportation.

(20) The influence of Combination as shown in the development of

Trusts.

(21) Methods of Wage-payment and Wage-adjustment.
(22) Public Finance.

(23) The Advantages and Disadvantages of different Systems of Money, Metallic and Paper.

(24) The Statistical Measurement of Changes in Prices.

(25) Statistical Tests of National Prosperity.

(26) The influence of Trade Routes on Economic Development.
(27) Economic Geography.

D. VI. On some special portion of the History of Political Ideas :— (28) The development of Political Theory in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

(29) The development of Political Theory in the nineteenth century. (30) Political Utopias.

(31) The Philosophical Theory of the State.

(32) The Theory of Legislation.

VII. On some special branch of the development and working of Political Institutions :

(33) The Theory and Practice of Democracy. (34) Federal Government.

(35) Local Government.

(36) The principles and limits of State Action. (37) Representative Government.

N.B. Candidates are recommended, where possible, to show a knowledge of the institutions of other countries besides Great Britain.

The two Special Subjects to be offered by each Candidate must be selected from different subdivisions (numbered I to VII above), and no Candidate will be allowed to take both subjects from one subdivision alone.

Candidates will not (with the exception noted under A. III) be restricted to selection from this List, but any Candidate desiring to offer a subject not included must submit such to the approval of the Committee for Economics and Political Science six months before the Examination at which he or she proposes to offer it. In every case they must give notice to the Secretary on or before January 1 in any year of the Special Subjects (whether taken from the published list or not) which they will be offering at the Examination in that year.

Candidates will also be permitted to offer, in lieu of one of the two Special Subjects required, a dissertation, in the subject of which they will be examined viva voce. The title of the dissertation must be submitted for approval six months before the Examination. The dissertation itself must be sent to the Secretary not later than three weeks before the date of the beginning of the annual Examination. Candidates are recommended not to exceed a maximum limit of 12,000 words as the length of their dissertation.

The principles of Economics should be studied in J. S. Mill's Principles of Political Economy, supplemented by some recent treatises, such as Marshall's Principles of Economics, Hadley's Economics, Gide's Political Economy, Sidgwick's Principles of Political Economy, and Nicholson's Principles of Political Economy. Such a knowledge of the history of theory will be required as is contained in the larger supplementary books recommended.

The subject of Political Science and Constitutional History should be studied in such books as the following (among others) :Bentham's Theory of Legislation (Dumont), Mill's Representative Government, Bagehot's English Constitution, Sidgwick's Elements of Politics, Dicey's Law of the Constitution, and Law and Public Opinion in England, Bryce's American Commonwealth, Lowell's Government and Parties in Continental Europe and Government of England, Janet's Histoire de la Science Politique, and Green's Principles of Political Obligation.

The Industrial and Commercial History of Great Britain and Ireland during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries should be studied in Cunningham's Growth of English Industry and Commerce in Modern Times.

AND MINING SUBJECTS.

(i) Statute.

[Statt. Tit. VIII. Sect. VII.]

OF THE COMMITTEE FOR SCIENTIFIC ENGINEERING AND MINING SUBJECTS, AND OF THE EXAMINATION IN THESE SUBJECTS.

I. There shall be holden in every year an Examination in Scientific Engineering and Mining Subjects, for the purpose of granting Certificates of proficiency therein. Candidates who show proficiency in such subjects as shall be prescribed by the Committee hereinafter constituted, shall receive Certificates which shall be styled Diplomas in Scientific Engineering and Mining Subjects.

2. There shall be a Committee for Scientific Engineering and Mining Subjects, consisting of the Vice-Chancellor, the Proctors, the Professor of Engineering Science, the Waynflete Professor of Mineralogy, the Professor of Geology, and six other members, four appointed by the Board of the Faculty of Natural Science and two by the Board of the Faculty of Medicine, for periods of two years. Three of the elected members of the Committee shall retire every year. When an elected member vacates his seat otherwise than by lapse of time, the vacancy shall be filled up at the next annual election. If the next election shall take place before the expiration of the period for which he was elected, the person elected in his place shall hold office for the unexpired residue only of such period. The Committee shall have power to co-opt not more than four additional members for periods of two years, and to appoint as Secretary one of their own number, or any member of Congregation.

3. The Committee shall have power to make arrangements for lectures and courses of instruction to be given within the University on Scientific Engineering and Mining Subjects and to require such fees to be paid by students as it may deem expedient.

4. The Committee shall fix the dates for the holding of Examinations, and for the entry of names for examination. They shall also issue from time to time lists of books and particulars of subjects to be offered in the Examination, and shall make such further regulations as they shall deem necessary for carrying out the provisions of this Section. They shall have power to determine what subjects shall be included in each of the several parts of the Examination, and to make regulations, if they think fit, permitting a Candidate to offer on different occasions the several subjects included in the