ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY.

The mechanical, chemical, and vital properties of the several elementary Animal Textures.

General principles of Animal Mechanics.

Outline of the processes subservient to the nutrition of the body; and general plan of structure of the organs of assimilation. Nature of Digestion; course of the Lacteal Absorbents. Structure of the Organs of Circulation. Principal varieties in the plan of circulation in the great divisions of the animal kingdom; viz. Mammalia, Birds, Reptiles, Fishes, Mollusca, Articulated and Radiated Animals.

Mechanism of Respiration in the several classes of animals; chemical effects of respiration in the several classes of animals.

Chemical properties of the Secretions; structure of secreting organs.

Functions of the Nervous System.

The Sensorial Functions, comprehending the physiology of the external senses, especially Vision and Hearing.

CLASSICS.

THE GREEK AND LATIN LANGUAGES.

One Greek and one Latin book, to be selected two years previously by the Senate from the works of the undermentioned authors*:

Homer.........Six Books.

Sophocles.....One Play.

Euripides.....One Play.

Herodotus....One Book.

Thucydides.....One Book.

Xenophon.....Two Books, from any of his larger works.
Demosthenes.One of the longer, or three of the shorter pub-
lic Orations; or two of the private Orations.
Plato..........Apology of Socrates, and Crito.

.........

Virgil.. .The Eclogues, and six Books of the Æneid; orthe
Georgics, and the Sixth Book of the Æneid.

* For the Classical Subjects for 1846 and 1847 see page 17.

Horace........The Odes and Ars Poetica, and either the Satires or the Epistles.

Cæsar.........The Civil Wars, and the Fifth and Sixth Books of the Gallic War.

Cicero.........The Somnium Scipionis, and two of the shorter and one of the longer Orations.

Livy...........Three Books.

Tacitus...

HISTORY.

...The Agricola, Germania, and one Book either of the Annals or of the Histories.

History of Greece to the death of Alexander.

History of Rome to the death of Augustus.

History of England to the end of the Seventeenth century. The papers in Classics shall consist of passages to be translated, accompanied by questions in Grammar, History, and Geography. THE FRENCH or the GERMAN LANGUAGE.

Translation into English.

Translation from English into French or German.

LOGIC.

LOGIC AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY.

Whately's Elements of Logic, fifth Edition, the Introduction, 1st Book, and the 2nd Book to the end of Chap. III. MORAL PHILOSOPHY.

The First, Third, and Fourth Books of Paley's Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, and Butler's Three Sermons on Human Nature.

Candidates shall not be approved by the Examiners unless they show a competent knowledge in the four branches of examination :

1. Mathematics and Natural Philosophy;

2. Animal Physiology;

3. Classics*;

4. Logic and Moral Philosophy.

In the first week of examination the Examinations shall be conducted in the following order :

* Including French or German.

Monday

Tuesday

Morning, 10 to 1.

.Mathematics and Natural Philosophy.
..Classics.

Wednesday...Mathematics and Natural Philosophy.
Thursday.....Classics.

Afternoon, 3 to 6.

Monday .Animal Physiology.

Tuesday......Logic and Moral Philosophy.
Wednesday...History.

Thursday.....French. German.

In the following week, on Tuesday Morning at Nine o'clock, the Examiners shall arrange in Two Divisions, each in alphabetical order, such of the Candidates as have passed.

EXAMINATION FOR HONOURS.

Any Candidate who has passed may be examined for Honours in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Classics, Chemistry, Animal Physiology, and Vegetable Physiology and Structural Botany. But in case any Candidate should delay proceeding to the Examination for the Degree of B.A. more than Three academical Years from the date of his passing the Matriculation Examination, he cannot become a Candidate for the Scholarships, or be admitted to the Examination for Honours, unless he show evidence to the satisfaction of the Examiners that he has been prevented, up to that time, from proceeding to the Examination for the Degree of B.A.

Candidates for Honours in MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY shall be examined in the following subjects:

ALGEBRA, INCLUDING THE THEORY OF EQUATIONS.
ANALYTICAL GEOMETRY.

THE DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL CALCULUS.

CALCULUS OF FINITE DIFFERENCES.

THEORY OF PROBABILITY.

STATICS AND DYNAMICS.

HYDROSTATICS.

HYDRAULICS AND PNEUMATICS.

HEAT.

OPTICS.

ASTRONOMY.

This Examination shall take place on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in the week following the Examination for the Degree of B.A.; in the Morning from Ten to One, and in the Afternoon from Three to Six.

In determining the relative position of Candidates, the Examiners shall have regard to the proficiency in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy evinced by the Candidates at the B.A. Examination.

The Examiners shall publish in the course of the ensuing week a list of the Candidates who acquit themselves to their satisfaction, in the order of proficiency; and Candidates shall be bracketed together, unless the Examiners are of opinion that there is a clear difference between them.

Candidates for Honours in CLASSICS shall be examined in the following subjects:

THE GREEK AND LATIN LANGUAGES.

Homer.

Eschylus........Eumenides, and Agamemnon.
Sophocles.......Edipus Tyrannus, Edipus Coloneus.
Aristophanes....The Birds, The Frogs.

Euripides.......Iphigenia in Tauris, and Alcestis.

Thucydides.

Herodotus.

Plato.............Phædo, Protagoras, and Gorgias.

Aristotle... ..The Ethics, and the Poetics.

Eschines and De Coronâ, and the Midias of Demosthenes.

Demosthenes.

Virgil.

Horace.

Juvenal.........Sat. 1, 3, 8, 10, 13, 14.
Persius.........Sat. and 5.

Plautus.. ..Aulularia, Capteivei, Trinummus.
Terence ..Andria, Heautontimoroumenos, Adelphi.
Lucretius.......The Fifth and Sixth Books.

Cicero...........DeNaturâ Deorum,Tuscul.Disput.,DeOfficiis,
De Oratore, and the Letters to Atticus.

Tacitus..........The Annals and the Histories.

COMPOSITION IN GREEK, LATIN, AND ENGLISH.
Greek prose: Translation, retranslation.

Latin prose: Translation, retranslation.

English prose: Analysis of any of the subjects selected for examination; original composition upon questions arising out of the classical authors selected for examination.

The papers in Classics shall consist of passages to be translated, accompanied by questions in Grammar, History, and Geography.

This Examination shall take place on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in the week following the Examination for Honours in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy; in the Morning from Ten to One, and in the Afternoon from Three to Six.

In determining the relative position of Candidates, the Examiners shall also have regard to the proficiency in Classics, Logic and Moral Philosophy evinced by the Candidates at the B.A. Examination.

The Examiners shall publish in the course of the ensuing week a list of the Candidates who acquit themselves to their satisfaction, in the order of proficiency; and Candidates shall be bracketed together unless the Examiners are of opinion that there is a clear difference between them.

The Examinations for Honours in CHEMISTRY, ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY, and VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY AND STRUCTURAL BOTANY, shall take place in the week immediately following the Examination for Honours in Classics; that in Chemistry, on Wednesday, in the Morning from Ten to One; that in Animal Physiology, on Thursday, in the Morning from Ten to One, and in the Afternoon from Three to Six ; and that in Vegetable Physiology and Structural Botany, on Friday, in the Morning from Ten to One.

The Examiners shall publish, in the course of the ensuing week, a list of the Candidates who acquit themselves to their satisfaction, in the order of proficiency in each subject.