3. Find the mean coefficient of expansion of glass between the temperature of the laboratory and the boiling point of water, that of mercury being 0.0001816.

4. Find the Specific Heat of the given liquid.

5. Determine the length of the seconds pendulum by Bessel's method.

6. Find the candle power of the given electric lamp for different currents; measure the energy absorbed with the voltmeter and ammeter, and plot a curve shewing the relation between energy and candle power.

7. Find the dispersive power of the given prism between Cand h.

8. Determine the horizontal component of the earth's magnetic intensity.

9. Find the value of J by the electrical method.

10. Find the relation between the difference in temperature of the given thermo-electric junctions and the deflections produced in the given galvanometer, and plot a curve shewing the results.

ANCIENT HISTORY.

SECOND PAPER.

Professor Elkington.

1. What appears to have been the general form of government in primitive heroic Greece? Trace the causes by which it gradually became modified, and indicate the nature of the modification.

2. Consider the leading circumstances through which the Spartans acquired and retained their ascendency over the Hellenic mind.

3. How may the hostility of Plato to the Sophists be accounted for?

4. Distinguish between facts and fiction in the stories about Xanthippus and Regulus in the first Punic war.

5. Trace as well as you can the steps by which the two provinces of Spain gradually became Romanised.

6. What were the probable motives for the Roman conquest of Britain? How do you account for the fact that Britain became so rapidly Romanised?

7. Describe the Senate as it existed at the commencement of the Empire. How did Augustus remodel it?

8. Give some account of George the Cappadocian.

9. Point out how the world of modern Europe sprang from the union of Teuton and Roman.

10. What, according to Mr. Freeman, is "the Eternal Question"?

11. Mr. Freeman refers to "the event of 800, the event of 1453, the event of 1806." Point out the historical significance of each of these events.

12. Discuss Dr. Hearn's view of the character of the State union.

HISTORY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.-PART I.

SECOND PAPER.

Professor Elkington.

1. (a) What archbishopric was established in Mercia? When was it suppressed?

(b) What relations had Offa with Charlemagne?

2. Explain the ecclesiastical policy of William the What future difficulties were involved in

First.

it?

3. Explain the following citations from Bacon's Henry the Seventh :

(a) "So as now the wreath o three was made a wreath of five."

(c) "This is that treaty which the Flemings call at this day intercursus magnus.”

4. Estimate the extent of the royal authority in the Tudor period.

5. (a) Give some account of the restrictions on printing in the reign of Elizabeth.

(b) What was the case of George Ferrers in 1543?

6. From what event may the commercial supremacy of London be dated?

7. What was Bates' case? On what occasion was this case relied on in support of the action of Charles the First?

8. Give an account of the theory of a social or original contract between the king and people, and discuss its correctness.

9. Indicate the character of the Long Parliament, stating the more important of the constitutional measures which we owe to it, and explaining why they are important.

10. Explain shortly the nature and the importance of

(a) The Grand Remonstrance,

(b) The Solemn League and Covenant.

(c) The Self Denying Ordinance.

11. What were the circumstances, general and special, which led to the fall of Danby? What constitutional questions arose out of his impeachment?

12. When, and under what circumstances, did the National Debt commence ?

FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF EXPRESSION AND INTERPRETATION OF SPECIFIED WORKS.

FIRST YEAR.

Professor Marshall-Hall.

1. Phrase off with the utmost minuteness the following examples, adding tempo and expression marks. (Use square brackets to denote the whole phrase, commas for the separate figures into which it is divided, and curved lines for legato; also write out fully all turns and shakes):