be notified beforehand. The geographical distribution and habits of animals. The species of the mammals of India, omitting the micro-mamals, viz., Insectivora, Rodentia, and Cheiropetra; and the Indian genera of one order of Reptilia and one of Aves, to be previously notified. (b) Special Physiology of the Vertebrata. (c) Special Physiology of the Invertebrata. Geology, Mineralogy, and Physical Geography. Geology shall include The classification, structure, and formation of rocks. The evidence of past changes afforded by their present condition, and a practical acquaintance with their mineral characteristics, to be tested by specimens. The generic determination of the most characteristic fossil forms, and the indications of age and habit which they afford. A practical knowledge of fossil forms to be tested by specimens. A general knowledge of the geology of Great Britain and Western Europe, and a more detailed knowledge of the geology of India. An acquaintance with geological maps to be tested by the construction of a geological action from a given map. Mineralogy shall include (a) General characteristics of minerals. (b) Crystallography of the structure of minerals, fundamental forms of crystals, cleavage, secondary forms, compound crystals, dimorphism, irregn. larities of crystals, measuring angles of crystals, massive minerals, columnar structure, lamellar, and granular structure, pseudomorphous crystals. (c) Physical properties of minerals; lustre, colour, diaphaneity, refraction and polarization, phosphorescence, electricity and magnetism, specific gravity, hardness, state of aggregation, fracture, taste, odour. (d) Chemical properties of minerals; action of acids, &c., on minerals; blow-pipe re-actions of minerals. (e) Classification of minerals. (f) Description and recognition of the more important minerals and rocks of mineral aggregates. (9) Chemical composition and formulæ of minerals. Physical Geography shall include The form and density of the earth, and modes of ascertaining them. The distribution and characteristic geographical phenomena of land and water. Climate and its determining causes. The inorganic physical geography of India. Meteorology. 8. An optional paper, requiring an original composition in Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, or Uriya, shall be set at the B.A. Examination, proficiency in which shall entitle a candidate to a special certificate, but shall not be counted towards a pass. 'BACHELOR OF SCIENCE. 1. An examination for the degree of Bachelor of Science shall be held annually in Calcutta, and shall commence at such time as the Syndicate shall determine, the date to be approximately notified in the Calendar for the year. 2. Any undergraduate of the University may be admitted to the Examination, provided he has prosecuted, in an Institution affiliated up to the B.Sc. Standard, a regular course of study for not less than two academical years after passing the First Examination in Arts. No candidate shall be considered to have prosecuted a regular course of study unless he has attended at least 66 per cent.* of the lectures delivered in the Institution to which he belongs in each of the subjects in which he is to be examined. This percentage shall be calculated on the total number of lectures in each subject delivered in the Institution from the commencement of the academical year after the summer vaca tion. If a student is transferred from one Institution to another in the course of a year, the percentage of attendances in the second Institution shall be calculated on the total number of lectures in each subject delivered in that Institution after the date of the transfer certificate. If a student fails to enter an affiliated Institution before the 1st August in any year, his attendance for that year shall not, except with the special sanction of the Syndicate, be counted. 3. Every candidate shall send his application, with a certificate in the form entered in Appendix A, to the Registrar at least six weeks before the date fixed for the commencement of the Examination. If he desires to be examined for Honours, he shall state in his application the subject in which he desires to be so examined. 4. A fee of thirty rupees shall be payable by each candidate. No candidate shall be admitted to the examination unless he shall have paid this fee to the Registrar. A candidate who fails to pass, or to present himself for examination shall not be entitled to claim a refund of the fee. A candidate who fails to pass may be admitted to one or more subse quent examinations for the degree of Bachelor of Science on payment of a like fee of thirty rupees on each occasion, provided he produces a certificate from the head of an Institution affiliated up to the B.Sc. Standard, showing that his name has been on the rolls of such Institution for six calendar months since the date of the last examination to which he was admitted, and that he has attended 66 per cent.* of the lectures delivered in the Institution during those six months in each of the subjects in which he is to be examined. A candidate who fails to present himself may be admitted to any one subsequent B.Sc. examination on payment of half the fee. 5. The examination for the degree of Bachelor of Science shall be conducted by means of printed papers, and there shall be a simple practical examination in all subjects other than English and Mathematics. The Syndicate have power to make exceptions to this rule. 6. At the examination for the degree of Bachelor of Science every candidate shall be examined in the following subjects, for Pass or Honours, as selected : Pass Subjects. -- COMPULSORY SUBJECTS. Honour Subjects. As defined below: There is no Honour Coarse in English. Statics, Dynamics, Hydrostatics, Astro- Chemistry-a fuller course. 7. Honours may be taken in any two or more of the subjects selected, but candidates who wish to take Honours in Mathematics shall be required to take up the entire Honours Course in that subject, which will be considered equivalent to two ordinary subjects. A candidate may obtain the degree of B.Sc. after examination in English, Physics, Chemistry, and any two of the other subjects provided he obtains Honours in at least three subjects (English excepted), Mathematics counting as a double subject. 8. DEFINITION OF SUBJECTS. I.-ENGLISH. The examination in English shall be conducted mainly as a test in composition. One paper shall be set requiring short essays to be written on some portion of a subject in (a) Physical Science or Chemistry, and (b) in one other of the optional subjects taken up by the candidate. II AND X.-MATHEMATICS. The Pass Course shall include (a) Statics Parallelogram and triangle of forces. Couples. Momente. Equilibrium, conditions of equilibrium of any forces aeting on a particle or rigid body. Centre of parallel forces. Centre of gravity or centroid. Friction. Simple cases of tension of strings Levers; pulley; wheel and axle ; inclined plane; screw. Virtual velocities. (b) Dynamics Definition and measurement of mass, force, velocity, acceleration momentum, work, and energy. Laws of motion. Uniform motion. Uniformly accelerated motion (1) in a straight line; Simple cases of impact. Simple harmonic motion. (c) Hydrostatics The transmission and intensity of fluid pressure. Determination of component and resultant fluid pressure in simple Properties of elastic fluid and determination of pressure. Mixture of gases. a Description of the barometer, air-pump, common and force pumps. the diving-bell, the balloon, siphon, and Bramah's press, applications of hydrostatical principles. The Honour Course shall include in addition to a fuller knowledge of the subjects of the Pass Course (a) Analytical Plane Geometry Cartesian and polar co-ordinates. The straight line. The circle. The parabola. The ellipse. The byperbola. The general equation of the second degree. (b) Differential Calculus Definition of differential coefficients. Differentiation of functions of a single variable. Successive differentiation, Taylor's and Maclaurin's theorems, and their simpler applications. Differentiation of functions and implicit functions. Maxima and minima values of functions of one variable. Tangents, normals, asymptotes, curvature, singular points, evolutes, involutes. Tracing of curves. Integral Calculus Integration of simple functions of a single variable. Integration of rational fractions. Integration by formulæ of reduction. Determination of lengths and areas of curves. III-PHYSICS. The Pass Course shall include (a) General Ideas 1.-Wave motion : Measurement of simple or harmonic wave motions. Combination of wave motions. Resolution of complex wave motions into simple or harmonic wave motions. 2. Potential : Definition of potential. Calculation of potential in simple cases. Determination of force from potential. Fundamental propositions respecting lines of force, equipotential surfaces and tubes of force. 3.-Elasticity : Definition of elasticity. Measurement of elasticity in the cases of solids, liquids, and gases. (b) Heat A more thorough acquaintance with the subject than that required for the First Examination in Arts and a greater power of working problems on heat. (c) Light In this subject more difficult questions in the determination of foci focal lengths, &c., will be required than for the First Examination This subject must now be taken up in connection with potential. (e) Sound The laws of the production and propagation of sound determined experimentally. Intensity, pitch, and quality of sounds. The velocity of sound in air and other media; Doppler's principle. Measurement of sound vibrations and wave lengths of air. Harmonic tones; their generation and function in sound. Longitudinal vibration of rods and of columns of air. |