c. A solution of arsenious oxide in hydrochloric acid is added to a vessel containing zinc, and the gases evolved are passed through a hot tube.

d. Chlorine is passed over slaked lime and an acid is added to the product.

e. Sand, calcium carbonate, and sodium carbonate are melted together. If a little oxide of cobalt is added, what happens in addition?

f. Cryolite is melted, alumina is added, and a powerful electric current is passed.

6. A glass ball counterpoised in air appeared to lose 5'6 grammes when plunged into water, and 509 grammes when plunged into turpentine. A crystal of copper sulphate, which weighed 1169 grammes in air, when plunged into turpentineappeared to lose 463 grammes. Find the density of the turpentine and of the copper sulphate.

PHYSIOLOGY.

Time: three hours.

1. Explain why air enters the chest in inspiration and leaves it in expiration. By what means is the capacity of the chest alternately enlarged and diminished in these two phases of the breathing process?

2. Describe the general and minute structure of a skeletal muscle. What is rigor mortis? When and why does this condition occur?

3. What constitutes a gland? Explain the nature of the processes known as secretion and excretion. Name the excretory organs of the body, stating in each case the principal substancesexcreted.

4. The sympathetic nervous system; describe

a. The structures included under this term.

b. Where these are to be found.

c. What functions are associated with it.

d. How it is related to other parts of the nervous system.

5. Explain the nature of the mechanisms by which the eye is enabled to accommodate itself for objects at varying distances.'

BOTANY.

Time: two hours.

1. What do you understand by the terms, actinomorphic and zygomorphic? Take flowers of the ranunculaceae, labiatae, and primulaceae as illustrations.

2. What is meant by hypogynous, perigynous, and epigynous ? Take as examples flowers of ranunculaceae, leguminosae, and -compositae.

3. What is an epicalyx? In what natural order do you find it? Describe some modifications of the calyx as occurring in ranunculaceae, cruciferae, and compositae.

4. Describe the androecium in different genera of the scrophulariaceae as regards number and arrangement.

5. Describe any flower you know belonging to the proteaceae. 6. Describe the flower of an orchid.

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY.

Time: three hours.

1. By what means can the pressure of the atmosphere be determined? What are the causes that produce a variation of atmospheric pressure?

2. Name five chemically formed stratified rocks. Describe the composition of each and the conditions under which they occur

in nature.

3. Describe the difference between a pebble and a nodule, a conglomerate and a breccia, a sandstone and a grit, a shale and a slate.

4. Explain what is meant by a base level of erosion. Give a local illustration of such.

5. What geological conditions give rise to lakes?

6. Enumerate the minerals which are commonly found in solution in sea water. How can the presence of these minerals

in the sea be accounted for? Explain why some seas have more mineral matter in solution than others?

7. How are clouds formed? Name the chief varieties of clouds, and state their relative heights, forms, and weather indications.

8. A series of beds in ascending order exhibit (a) coarse gravel, (b) false bedding, (c) shale, (d) limestone. What do these beds, individually and collectively, prove as to the physical conditions existing in the locality at the time of their deposition? 9. Draw a diagram showing horizontal beds of quartzite, limestone, and slates. In three additional diagrams show these beds under increasing degrees of pressure:

a. In anticlinal and synclinal folds.

b. In overfolds.

e. The overfolds become reversed faults.

HIGHER EXAMINATION PAPERS, 1905.

ENGLISH LITERATURE.

Time: three hours.

1. How does Shakespeare present the greatness of Hamlet's character, whereas Hamlet shows and deplores his own weakness?

2. Where does the ghost appear in the play? How is it treated by the other characters? Do you think it a consistent treatment?

3. Explain the following quotations. The examiner assumes that you know their general meaning, and asks how minutely you understand the language in them.

a. Virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it.

b. Is there no sequel at the heels of this mother's admiration?

c. Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.

d. I'll tent him to the quick.

e.

f.

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution

Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.

For madness would not err,

Nor sense to ecstasy was ne'er so thralled
But it reserved some quantity of choice
To serve in such a difference.

4. By what variations does Milton prevent monotony in the structure of the verse of Paradise Lost? Contrast it with the blank verse in Hamlet. Account for the metrical effect of these lines, and give parallel examples from any verse that you remember:

Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian shore.
Impending horrors threatening hideous fall.
And found no end in wandering mazes lost.
Upborne with indefatigable wings.

A slow and silent stream,

Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls.

5. "In reading Paradise Lost one has a feeling of spaciousness such as no other poet gives." Explain how this effect is produced by Milton's methods of description, and not merely by the nature of the subject-matter.

6. Explain: sublimed with mineral fury; utmost Arnon; fought at Thebes and Ilium; Pythian fields; golden architrave; when the Sun with Taurus rides; his look denounced desperate revenge; the pitch of heaven; the void profound of unessential Night; and describe the abyss in

Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend

Stood on the brink of Hell, and looked a while.

7. Write short notes on Mrs. Thrale and Samuel Crisp; and on the characters Madame Duval and Mrs. Delville.

8. Write an appreciation either of the literary work of Fanny Burney, or of her life.

HISTORY.

Time: three hours.

1. Discuss the constitutional importance of the reign of William III.

2. Explain the causes of the American rebellion. What arguments in favour of the colonists were advanced by Edmund Burke ?

3. What services were rendered to England by Horatio Nelson during the struggle with France ?

4. To what extent were the demands of the Chartists carried into effect before the end of the 19th century?

5. Draw a map showing the limits of the British possessions in South Africa, and the positions of the most important towns.