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square foot are allowable on different kinds of foundations? What are the necessary conditions to be observed in foundations generally to secure permanency?

2. Write the specification clauses (a) for ordinary stone rubble walls, (b) bluestone cills, (c) hollow brick walls, (d) wall plates for floors and roofs.

3. Explain the meaning of the following terms :(a) penchecked stone step, (b) garden wall bond, (c) colonial bond, (d) stone quoin, (e) blocking course, (f) purlin.

4. Give some information as to what you would consider an insanitary site for a residence, and what precautions you would take should you be obliged to build upon one.

5. What are the objections to colonial timbers in architects' work? Where may they be used freely, and where must special precautions be observed? Describe the precautions necessary for each position in which you would use them, and give reasons.

6. What materials are used for roof coverings in Victoria, and at what slopes or angles are they usable? Compare their powers of resisting and retaining wet and heat respectively, and show how to provide for defects in these respects.

7. Sketch, on Plan 7 of a villa residence, the outlets, traps, wastes, &c., &c., necessary for drainage in accordance with modern sanitary practice.

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8. In determining the sizes of upper floor joists for residences and warehouses respectively, explain what principles guide you, and state formulæ for calculating same respectively.

9. What walls, and paving and drainage, &c., would you use for a cellar of a city warehouse about the western end of Flinders-street, Melbourne ?

ARCHITECTURE.-PLANNING.

SECOND PAPER.

The Board of Examiners.

1. In the accompanying plan, Fig. 1, of a villa residence, drawn to an -in. scale, the rooms required are shown, also the points of the compass for aspect, and the direction of best prospect. Write on the plan what rooms you would adopt for dining, drawing, breakfast, and bed rooms respectively; also note the best positions for piano, sideboard, and beds; and sketch the position and sizes you would adopt for the doors, windows, and fireplaces throughout.

2. As to stairs: What are the rules as to treads, risers, winders, and landings? What are the usual sizes of treads and risers (a) in entrances to public buildings, (b) stairs of large residences, (c) stairs to small terrace houses, (d) servants' and back

stairs?

3. Under what practical conditions would you use (a) casement sashes opening outwards, (b) fixed sashes with fanlights above, (c) ingle nook fireplaces, (d) angle fireplaces? For what apartments and under what circumstances are borrowed lights and skylights allowable in house planning, and why?

4. As to aspect: What distinctions are necessary as to position of working rooms and storage rooms? Where there are three family rooms on the ground floor what arrangements as to aspect are desirable in this climate ?

5. What general principles are to be observed in designing (a) office buildings or chambers, (b) suburban bank offices, (c) wholesale warehouses, (d) small lecture theatres?

6. Give sketch diagrams of the general arrangement of some good modern hospital that may be regarded as a model showing the relative positions of buildings devoted to administration, food, operations, laundry, and surgical and medical treatment of both sexes, and give some brief data as to area of site and area and cubical contents of wards.

ARCHITECTURE.-HISTORICAL.

THIRD PAPER.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Explain with sketches the meaning of the following terms:-(a) Flying buttress; (b) triforium ;

(c) abacus; (d) archivolt; (e) clerestory; (f) tympanum.

2. As to the influence of material upon architecture: Describe and give sketches of the effect of (a) stone in large sizes in Egyptian work; (b) brick only in Assyrian work; (c) small stones in Gothic work.

3. Give some examples of the use of the pointed arch in ancient work. From whom did the Gothic architects learn its use, and for what reasons did they first adopt it?

4. Explain with sketches the differences in plan construction and ornament between the 6th century Byzantine work and the cotemporary Latin work in Rome.

5. Describe and sketch the characteristics of lancet, geometrical, curvilinear, and rectilinear work in English Gothic, and give their approximate dates if you can; also the corresponding periods in French Gothic.

6. The photographs accompanying, numbered from 1 upwards, represent various ancient classic and mediæval buildings or features typical of the styles, orders, and periods.

Give in each case the style and order, period or date, the country or locality, and the reason upon which you base your opinion; and point out any distinguishing influence of climate on the form.

PHYSIOLOGY.

The Board of Examiners.

1. What methods have been devised for the measuring intra-vascular pressure?

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2. Light falls on the eye. The pupil contracts. scribe in detail the changes which take place.

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3. How is the body temperature regulated? How is a temperature of 98° F. (approx.) maintained by a human being when the air temperature is (a) 40° F., or (b) 105° F?

4. What may be learnt from the graphic record of a single contraction of striated muscle?

PHYSIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY AND

HISTOLOGY.

The Board of Examiners.

1. How may starch be converted into glucose (a) within, and (b) without the body?

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