PRACTICAL EXAMINATION. FIRST PAPER. The Board of Examiners. 1. Find the height of the Laboratory buildings (a) by the Watkin Aneroid, (b) by the Sextant, making all corrections. Determine the degree of accuracy to which each method should attain. 2. Compare the specific viscosities of the given liquids with that of water. 3. Determine the focal length of the given concave lens, and the refractive index of its material. 4. Find the mean wave length of light by observation of Newton's Diffusion Rings. 5. Establish the relation between the specific heats of solutions of common salt and their degrees of concentration. 6. Determine the emissive power (across air) of the given surface as a function of the temperatures concerned. F PRACTICAL EXAMINATION. SECOND PAPER. The Board of Examiners. 1. Calibrate the given galvanometer. 2. Determine the resistance of a galvanometer by the rate of damping of the oscillations of the needle. 3. Determine the insulation resistance of the given installation. 4. Find in absolute measure the capacity of a condenser. 5. Find the constant in terms of which the Earth's magnetic intensity is determined by the use of Barrow's Circle. 6. Determine and plot out the curves of equal deflection of a small magnetometer needle in the neighbourhood of a given bar magnet set across the meridian. SCHOOL OF GEOLOGY AND PALÆONTOLOGY. PHYSICAL GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. 1. Write a short treatise on the causes and their modes of action, altering the forms and relative positions of aqueous and of igneous rocks subsequent to their original consolidation. 2. Write a short treatise, as comprehensive as you can, on the method of making geological observations in the field for the construction of geological maps and sections, with the precautions to be observed and the signs and modes of delineation used to represent the facts observed. 3. Give the chemical and crystallographic characters of as many as you can of the more common rock-forming minerals. 4. Shew how veins are classified, and the causes which determine their mineral contents, dealing most fully with the actions of different temperatures, and of vapors. 5. Explain as fully as you can the causes which act in changing the various silicates of the constituent minerals of igneous rocks into the silicates commonly found in cavities in the various lavas and trap rocks; particularly the relations of Dialysis to the colloid and to the crystalloid conditions of mineral constituents, giving examples. STRATIGRAPHICAL GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY. Professor Sir Frederick McCoy. 1. Write down as fully as you can the various named divisions and formations of Stratified Rocks in the order of their successive formation. 2. What objections occur to you to the use of the term Cretaceo-Tertiary"? Give in detail the palæontological characteristics and differences of typical Cretaceous and of Tertiary Formations. 3. Give the generic characters of as many orders and genera of Reptiles characteristic of Mesozoic Formations as you can. 4. Give the dental characteristics of as many Genera as you can of Mammalia confined to Eocene, Miocene, and Mesozoic Formations respectively. 5. Give the number of movable or thoracic segments in the following Palæozoic Crustacea, viz. :Phillipsia, Ogygia, Brachymetopus, Bumastus, Trinucleus, Calymene, Phacops, and Olenus, with the geological range in time of each. FINAL HONOUR EXAMINATION IN SCIENCE. SCHOOL OF BIOLOGY. ˆ BIOLOGY. FIRST PAPER. The Board of Examiners. Not more than FOUR questions to be answered, of which one must be a Botany question. All answers must be illustrated by rough diagrams. 1. Write an account of the structure and affinities of Cephalodiscus and Rhabdopleura. 2. Describe the morphology and method of reproduction of some Lichen. 3. Give some account of the group Basidiomycetes. 4. Write an account of the formation of the Ovum in the Hydrozoa, and of the development of typical examples of the group. 5. Write an account of the structure and development of Loxosoma, and discuss its affinities with the Ectoproctous Polyzoa, and with other groups of Vermes. 6. Describe the development of the free swimming larva of the Ascidiaceæ. 7. Describe carefully the anatomy of Peripatus. 8. Give an outline of the classification of the Vascular Cryptogams, and explain clearly the characters on which the classification rests. |