6. Nitric acid is mixed with ammonia solution till the mixture is neutral to litmus. It is then evaporated to expel water, and the residue so obtained is heated more strongly in a flask. Describe all that happens, and give equations.

7. How does sodium hydroxide solution act with (a) hydrochloric acid, (b) sulphuric acid, (c) a solution containing the former acid neutralized by ammonia? Describe and give equations.

PHYSICS.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Define the terms "Velocity," "energy," "force.” State Newton's First Law of Motion, and summarize the evidence on which it is based.

2. Describe some good experimental method of verifying the relation v = at + v。, where v。 and v denote initial and final velocities, a the acceleration, and t the time.

3. Determine the conditions of equilibrium of the Common Screw.

The pitch of a screw being 0·25 inch and the length of its lever arm 4 feet, find the weight it can support when a force of 10 lbs. is applied to the end of the lever arm.

4. What is the Specific Gravity bottle, and how is it used for determining the density of such a substance as powdered sugar?

5. Describe some good method of determining the coefficient of cubical expansion of a solid sub

stance.

6. State the Law of Evaporation into a confined space, and explain the term Maximum Vapour Pressure.

7. Explain the construction and mode of employment of the ice calorimeter, and state clearly the precautions which must be observed in order to work it successfully.

8. Explain what is meant by convection currents in an unequally heated medium.

Why is the ventilation of a room improved by opening the window at the top rather than at the bottom?

PHYSIOLOGY.

The Board of Examiners.

1. What prevents the Blood passing back from the auricles of the Heart into the great veins ?

2. What is meant by the Accommodation of the Eye? How is it effected?

3. If an Artery, a Vein, and a Capillary be cut across, what will be the nature of the flow of blood from the cut ends in each instance?

4. What is Asphyxia, and how may it be produced?

5. How many permanent teeth are there in man? How may they be classified?

6. How and where is Voice produced? What is the difference between whispering and speaking?

7. What is Peptone, and where is it to be found in the human body?

8. What is the difference between Sebaceous Glands and Sweat Glands?

(Diagrams must be given where possible.)

BOTANY.

The Board of Examiners.

Diagrams must be given where possible.

1. Describe and compare the seed of a bean and of a monocotyledon.

2. Give an account of the structure and functions of fibro-vascular bundles.

3. Describe the composition and properties of protoplasm.

4. Give the life-history of Mucor.

5. Enumerate the characters of the families-Umbelliferæ, Ranunculacea, Labiata.

6. Describe the chief kinds of dehiscent fruits, with examples.

7. Describe the leaves of clover, geranium, pea, pine, violet.

8. By what terms is the cohesion of stamens described? Give examples.

MUSIC.

Professor Marshall-Hall.

1. Write out the major and minor (harmonic and melodic) scales of Eb, G#.

2. Explain, and exemplify by writing out a bar with time-signature prefixed, the terms-Duple, triple, compound duple, compound triple, time.

3. Write an augmented sixth, a minor seventh, a diminished third, from—