GERMAN. Rev. C. SCHOELL, Ph. Dr. DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS. For this Paper and for correct reading and writing in Marks. 1,200 To be translated into English: Friedrich II. von Preuffen bildet den Wendepunkt in der Zeit, wo die menschenfreundliche Richtung mitten in den rohen Militärstaat hineintrat. Er war gleichsam der letzte unter den Fürsten, der in dem militärischen Eroberungssysteme, das während des 30 jährigen, des nordischen, und des spanischen Erbfolgekrieges herrschte, in seinen schlesischen Kriegen fortfuhr, aber auch der erste, der sich zu den Lehren der französischen Philosophie und Staatswissenschaft offen bekannte, und sich die innere Wohlfahrt seines Volkes zum Ziele setzte. Durch diesen Vorgang bildet er den Kern der europäischen Geschichte in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts. (Gervinus, Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts.) Grammatical Questions: 1. Give the genitive singular of Zeit, Punkt, and Staat. 2. Decline derselbe Krieg. 3. Point out in the above passage those verbs which form the past participle in "et" or "t." 4. Give the present and imperfect subjunctive, and likewise the past participle of the verbs to which the forms hineintrat and fortfuhr belong. 5. Why is, in these two verbs, the prefix not separated from the verb ? 6. Trace Staatswissenschaft back to its root, and state the meaning of the component schaft. 7. Name some prepositions governing the genitive case. 8. Render into German the following idiomatic expressions:Never mind. Quite welcome. He seemed at a loss what to say. He is sure to come. Don't trouble yourself. I should like to see him. I don't care. GERMAN.-NATURAL SCIENCES. To be translated into German : --- 23 The At sunrise the next morning the search recommenced. corn and copsewood were now beaten with more care than ever. At length a gaunt figure was discovered hidden in a ditch; the pursuers sprang on their prey. Some of them were about to fire, but Portman forbade all violence. The prisoner's dress was that of a shepherd; his beard, prematurely grey, was of several days' growth. He trembled greatly, and was unable to speak. Even those who had often seen him were at first in doubt whether this were truly the brilliant and graceful Monmouth. (Lord Macaulay's History of England.) NATURAL SCIENCES. S. P. WOODWARD, F.G.S. Maximum Number of Marks, 1,200. 1. Describe the manner in which you would proceed to examine the geological structure of any particular district, and the situations in which you would expect to obtain evidence. 2. Explain the difference between the soil and the "superficial deposits," and again between these and the regular substrata of a country. 3. To what deposits is the term "alluvium" applied, and in what situations are they found? 4. What is the difference between "northern drift" and ordinary gravel, and why were they both formerly called "diluvium?" 5. Give an example of a regular stratum, or stratified rock, occupying a considerable area. 6. Give examples of unstratified rocks, and state the form in which they occur. 7. What minerals enter into the composition of granite? 8. Describe the mode of quarrying some rock which you have seen practised. 9. How are coal mines worked?. 24 ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE, SANDHURST. 10. Where is copper ore chiefly found in England, and how is it obtained? 11. Point out the grounds on which one stratum, or set of strata, can be recognised as being older or newer than others; and give an example of the practical value of such knowledge. 12. How is it that sea shells and other marine remains are found in the rocks of mountain chains, and in the interior of continents? 13. Mention some rock containing fossils which prove that it had a fresh water origin. 14. What are the classes of animals whose remains enter most largely into the composition of limestone rocks? 15. In what strata are trilobites found? 16. Give examples of fossil shells characteristic of some particular stratum. 17. What are the oldest strata in which the remains of fishes occur? 18. In what formations are the remains of reptiles most abundant, and comparatively of most consequence as geological evidence? 19. What is the oldest stratum in which remains of quadrupeds (mammalia,) have been detected, and at what period did this class become of paramount importance? 20. What class of plants is most abundant, fossil, in the coal measures? EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCES. F. A. ABEL, Esq. Maximum Number of Marks. 1,200 1. Give examples of the most important means by which heat may be developed. 2. Mention some practical applications of the unequal expansion of different bodies by heat. 3. Point out and illustrate the difference between the correct application of the terms heat and temperature. 4. State what is the boiling point of water, and what its freezing point, on the Fahrenheit and Centigrade scales, and describe the conditions under which its boiling point is raised and diminished. 5. Explain the conversion of liquid into solid carbonic acid, when the former is allowed to rush, from the vessel in which it has been condensed, into a box provided with openings for the free escape of gas. 6. What means are employed for exciting electricity, and what is understood by a body being positively or negatively electrified? 7. A small pith ball, suspended by a short fine thread from a wooden rod, which may be inserted into a hole in the prime conductor of an electric machine, will serve to indicate the extent to which the conductor is charged when the machine is in operation. What are the nature and cause of the indications which this contrivance furnishes? 8. Describe and explain the action of the electrical bells. 9. Since it is necessary, in the general use of a cylindrical electric machine, to establish a connection between the rubber and the earth, what is the object of insulating the rubber, by fixing it into a glass pillar? 10. Give a description of the construction of Volta's pile, and explain the manner in which electricity is developed in it. 11. How may the direction of a voltaic current be ascertained, and by what is the nature of that direction regulated? 12. Under what circumstances may a thermo-electric current be established in a piece of platinum wire, and what is the cause of its development? 13. Give an account of the general nature of the process of electro-plating, and of the principles upon which it is based. 14. Point out the difference between the nature of a permanent magnet and an electro-magnet, and describe how the latter may be produced. 15. Give some explanation of the tendency which a magnetic needle exhibits, to place itself at right angles with a wire through which a current of electricity is passing. 16. A bar magnet is divided into three pieces; compare the properties exhibited by the central portion and the two extremities, with those which they possessed before the division of the bar. 17. When a stone falls to the ground there are three forces of attraction acting upon the particles which compose it; name those forces, and state in what respects they differ from each other. 18. Why is water never found pure in nature; which is its purest natural form; how may it be perfectly purified; and what is the difference between a hard and a soft water? 19. Describe the effects of the continued application of heat to `a piece of wood, in the open air, and when in a confined space. 20. Carbonic acid consists of one equivalent of carbon and two equivalents of oxygen. How many cubic inches of oxygen are required to convert 50 grains of carbon into carbonic acid, and how many cubic inches of the latter gas are obtained? The equivalent of carbon is 6, that of oxygen is 8; 100 cubic inches of oxygen weigh 34-2 grains, and a similar volume of carbonic acid weighs 473 grains. 21. Are you acquainted with any other oxide of carbon? If so, give its name and composition; state in what important respects it differs from carbonic acid, and describe the conditions under which it is produced, for example, in a common coal-fire. 22. Chlorate of potassa may be converted by heat into chloride of potassium; nitrate of potassa furnishes potassa under similar circumstances. Describe the precise nature and results of the changes which occur, and specify the class of compounds to which each of the above-named substances belongs. 23. Describe, and state how you would demonstrate experimentally, the constitution of a beam of sunlight. 24. In what way are the chloride, bromide, and iodide of silver influenced by exposure to sunlight, and how are the resulting changes affected by the presence of nitrate of silver? 25. What occurs in the application of hyposulphite of soda as a fixing agent in photography, and in what manner does cyanide of potassium act when similarly applied? 26. Explain the chemical action of the developing agent employed in the preparation of a collodion picture. |