In determining the relative position of Candidates, the Examiners shall also have regard to the proficiency in Classics, History, and Geography, evinced by the Candidates at the Matriculation Examination.

The Examiners shall publish in the course of the following week a list of the Candidates who acquit themselves to their satisfaction, in the order of proficiency; and Candidates shall be bracketed together unless the Examiners are of opinion that there is a clear difference between them.

Candidates for Honours in NATURAL HISTORY shall be examined in one or both of the following subjects: BOTANY.*

ZOOLOGY.

The Examination for Honours in CHEMISTRY shall take place on the Friday in the week next but one after the Pass Examination, in the Morning from Ten to One; and the Examination in Natural History, on the same day, in the Afternoon from Two to Five.

Such Candidates for Honours in Chemistry and in Natural History as acquit themselves to the satisfaction of the Examiners, shall be arranged in the order of proficiency in each subject.

If in the opinion of the Examiners any Candidate shall possess sufficient merit, the Candidate who shall distinguish himself the most in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and the Candidate who shall distinguish himself the most in Classics, shall each receive an Exhibition of Thirty Pounds per annum for the next Two Years, if continuing during that period Students at one of the Institutions in connection with this University. Under the same circumstances, the Candidate who shall distinguish himself the most in Chemistry, and the Candidate who shall distinguish himself the most in either branch of Natural History, shall each receive a Prize of Books to the value of Five Pounds.

* See the "N.B." in page 71.

BACHELOR OF ARTS.

The Examination for the Degree of BACHELOR OF ARTS shall take place once a year, and commence on the fourth Monday in October.

No Candidate shall be admitted to the Examination for the Degree of B.A. within Two academical Years of the time of his passing the Matriculation Examination.

No Candidate shall be admitted to this Examination unless he have produced Certificates to the following effect from the authorities of one of the Institutions from which this University is authorized to receive Certificates:

1. Of having been a Student during Two Years at one of such Institutions.

2. And of Good Conduct, so far as their opportunities of knowledge have extended.

Every person who has completed an Undergraduate's Course of Education at any of the four Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin and Durham, and is desirous of being admitted as a Candidate for the Degree of B.A. in this University, shall, on his presenting himself before this University, be so admitted, exempt from the customary pre-requisite of having Matriculated in this University. He shall be required to satisfy the Senate of his good conduct at the University or College from which he proceeds.

The Certificates shall be transmitted to the Registrar at least fourteen days before the Examination begins.

The Fee for the Degree of B.A. shall be Ten Pounds. No Candidate shall be admitted to the Examination unless he have previously paid this Fee to the Registrar. If a Candidate fail to pass the Examination, the Fee shall not be returned to him, but he shall be admissible

to any subsequent Examination for the same Degree without the payment of any additional Fee.

The Examination shall be conducted by means of Printed Papers; but the Examiners shall not be precluded from putting, for the purpose of ascertaining the competence of the Candidates to pass, viva voce questions to any Candidate in the subjects in which they are appointed to examine.

Candidates for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts shall be examined in the following subjects:

MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.

ARITHMETIC AND ALGEBRA.

The ordinary rules of Arithmetic.

Vulgar and Decimal Fractions.

Extraction of the Square Root.

Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division of Algebraical Quantities.

Algebraical Proportion and Variation.

Permutations and Combinations.

Arithmetical and Geometrical Progression.

Simple and Compound Interest; Discount and Annuities
for terms of years.

Simple and Quadratic Equations, and Questions producing
The nature and use of Logarithms.

GEOMETRY.

The First Book of Euclid.

[them.

The principal properties of Triangles, Squares, and Parallelo-
grams, treated geometrically.

The principal properties of the Circle treated geometrically.
The relations of similar figures.

The Eleventh Book of Euclid to Prop. 21.

The equation to the Straight Line and the equation to the
Circle referred to rectangular co-ordinates.

The equations to the Conic Sections referred to rectangular
co-ordinates.

PLANE TRIGONOMETRY.

Plane Trigonometry as far as to enable the Candidate to solve all the cases of Plane Triangles.

The following propositions:

sin (A+B)=sin A cos B + cos A sin B

cos (A+B)= cos A cos B sin A sin B

The expression for the area of a triangle in terms of its sides. MECHANICS.

The Composition and Resolution of Forces.

The Mechanical Powers.

The Centre of Gravity.

The general laws of Motion.

The Motion of Falling Bodies in free space and down inclined planes.

HYDROSTATICS, HYDRAULICS, AND PNEUMATICS.

[depth.

The pressure of fluids is equally diffused and varies as the
The surface of a fluid at rest is horizontal.
Specific Gravity.

A floating body displaces exactly its weight of the fluid, and
is supported as if by a force equal to its weight pressing
upwards at the centre of gravity of the displaced fluid.
The Common Pump and the Forcing-Pump.

The Barometer.

The Air-Pump.

The Steam-Engine.

ASTRONOMY.

The apparent motion of the heavens round the earth.
The apparent motion of the sun through the fixed stars.
The phenomena of Eclipses.

The Regression of the Planets.

Proofs of the Copernican System.

ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY.

The mechanical, chemical, and vital properties of the several elementary Animal Textures.

General principles of Animal Mechanics.

Outline of the processes subservient to the Nutrition of the body; and general plan of structure of the Organs of Assimilation. Nature of Digestion; course of the Lacteal Absorbents. Structure of the Organs of Circulation.

Principal varieties in the plan of circulation in the great
divisions of the animal kingdom; viz. Mammalia, Birds,
Reptiles, Fishes, Mollusca, Articulated and Radiated
Animals.

Mechanism of Respiration in the several classes of animals ;
chemical effects of respiration in the several classes of
animals.

Chemical properties of the Secretions; structure of secre-
Functions of the Nervous System.
[ting organs.

The Sensorial Functions, comprehending the physiology of
the external senses, especially Vision and Hearing.

CLASSICS.

THE GREEK AND LATIN LANGUAGES.

One Greek and one Latin book, to be selected two years previously by the Senate from the works of the undermentioned authors*:

Thucydides...One Book.

Xenophon....Two Books, from any of his larger works.
Demosthenes .One of the longer, or three of the shorter public
Orations; or two of the private Orations.
..Apology of Socrates, and Crito.

Plato

Virgil.... .The Eclogues, and six Books of the Æneid; or the Georgics, and the Sixth Book of the Æneid.

Horace ........The Odes and Ars Poetica, and either the Satires or the Epistles.

Cæsar.........The Civil Wars, and the Fifth and Sixth Books of the Gallic War.

Cicero.........The Somnium Scipionis, and two of the shorter and one of the longer Orations.

Livy...........Three Books.

Tacitus..
........The Agricola, Germania, and one Book either
of the Annals or of the Histories.

* For the Classical Subjects for 1852 and 1853 see page 17.