are required that a force may be completely known? 2. State the parallelogram of forces. Two forces 8lbs. and 6 lbs., act on a point; find their resultant. 3. A straight lever, 4 ft. long, weighs 2 lbs., and balances on its middle point: if 4 lbs. and 6lbs. be placed at each end respectively, what alteration must be made in the position of the fulcrum, that may still balance ? it 4. Four bodies, 1 lb., 6 lbs., 2lbs., 8 lbs., respectively, are placed at equal distances of 2 inches from each other; find their common centre of gravity. 5. Find the relation between the power and the weight in an inclined plane, when the power acts parallel to the plane. A weight 20 lbs. is placed on a plane whose inclination is 30°, and kept there by a string passing over the top of the plane and fastened to a weight W; find the weight of W in pounds. 6. What is the second law of motion? How are dynamical forces estimated ? How are statical and dynamical forces connected or compared ? 7. A body falls from rest for 10 seconds; find the space described and the velocity acquired. (g = 32.) 8. If a body weighing 10 lbs. move with a uniform velocity of 20 ft. per second; and a similar body weighing 120 lbs. move with a velocity of 10 ft. per minute: what will be the relative effect of a blow from each ? 9. A body moves from rest; the first second it passes through 10 ft., in the next second it passes through 20 ft. is the force uniformly accelerating or not, and why? 1600 320 ENGLAND. PRELIMINARY GENERAL EXAMINATION.-Christmas, 1864. THURSDAY, December 22nd. - Afternoon, 4 to 5. NATURAL HISTORY. Examiner -A. K. ISBISTER, ESQ., M.A. I. BOTANY. 1. What are the distinctions on which the "Classes" are founded in the Linnaean classification of plants ? 2. In what particulars would transverse sections of the stems of the following plants differ:-oak-sugar-cane-sea-weed? 3. Describe the course of the sap in an endogenous plant; and state what becomes of it, and how it is renewed. 4. What are the characteristics of the Natural Order of Ferns, and the nature of their reproductive organs? 5. What parts of their respective plants are the substances known as coffee, tea, cork, hops, cloves, quassia, onion, turnip, potato, pepper? 6. Assign to their proper Class, Order, or Family, either in the Natural or in the Linnaean arrangement, the following plants: the lily, the violet, the crocus, the wall-flower, the beech, the oak, the fir. II. ZOOLOGY. 1. Give an account of the various systems, so far as they are known to you, which have been proposed for the classification of the animal kingdom. 2. Define the terms vertebra, haemal arch, neural arch, antenna, carapace, elytron. 3. Give the distinguishing characters of the sub-kingdom Mollusca. 4. Draw an outline figure of a fish, showing the position and names of the fins. In what kinds of fish are both eyes placed on the same side of the head; and why? 5. Describe the characteristic features in the organisation of the neuter honey-bee, and the mode in which honey and wax are produced. 6. Classify the following animals in a tabular form, assigning each to its proper Order, Class, and Sub-kingdom:-the cow, the sheep, the tiger, the eagle, the sparrow, the perch, the lobster, the oyster, the cuttlefish, the hydra, and the tapeworm. ENGLAND. PRELIMINARY GENERAL EXAMINATION.-Midsummer, 1865. TUESDAY, June 20th.-Morning, 10 to 12. ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION. Examiner.-C. P. MASON, Esq., B.A. 1. Parse the following sentence:-"I thought, as I gazed, that I had never seen a more perfect work of art than the picture which was before me." 2. What difference is there between English and Latin as respects Gender? 3. What modes have we in English of marking Gender? Give the feminines that correspond to the masculines ram, stag, wizard, steer; and the masculines that correspond to the feminines vixen, roe, duck, goose. 4. How many Cases are there in English? Name and define them. When is 's added to form the possessive plural ? 5. Enumerate and classify the pronouns. Write down the various forms of those that admit of declension. 6. Explain, and illustrate by examples, the use of the Subjunctive mood. 7. Write down all the forms in use of the verbs can and may. 8. Give the first person singular of the preterite tense, and the past participle, of the verbs fly, say, see, draw, seek, teach, flee, put, go, tell. 9. Analyse the following passage-(that is, indicate the subject and predicate of each sentence, and the words and groups of words that are attached to these as attributive adjuncts, as objects to the verbs, or as adverbial adjuncts) : "The towers of heaven are filled With armed watch, that render all access 10. Write a short composition on one of the following subjects(i.) Some mineral or plant employed in medicine. (ii.) The life and discoveries of some eminent surgeon or physician. (iii.) Milton. |