10. A contractor engages to dig a trench 2,000 yards

long in 18 days.
the end of 8 days
trench completed.
must he put on in
the stipulated time?

He puts on 15 men, but at finds only 600 yards of the How many additional men order to finish the work in

GEOGRAPHY.

The Board of Examiners.

The Map must be attempted.

1. Draw in one map so much of the mainland of Europe, Asia, and Africa as will shew the following. Then mark on the map

(a) The boundaries of the countries bordering on

the Mediterranean.

(b) The islands of Corsica, Corfu, Cyprus, Malta, Majorca, Minorca, Mitylene, Rhodes, Samos, Sardinia, Sicily.

(c)__ The rivers Adige, Ebro, Nile, Po, Rhone, Tiber.

(d) The towns Algiers, Barcelona, Batoum, Cettigne, Marseilles, Odessa, Salonica, Tangier, Toulon, Trieste.

2. Shew the importance of the coal mines in the north of England.

3. Give the geographical distribution of Jews, Roman Catholics, members of the Greek_Church, Protestants, Mahometans, Buddhists, Zoroastrians.

4. Write a short account of the colonies and foreign possessions of France.

5. Describe shortly the forms of government existing in Great Britain, the United States, Canada, Germany, Switzerland.

6. (a) Why is the duration of twilight longer in the polar than in the equatorial regions?

(b) How do you account for the fact that the sun continues visible after it has sunk below the horizon?

7. (a) Explain the annual motion of the earth. (b) Explain the phenomena which result from the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit.

8. Describe any practical methods of determining latitude and longitude.

9. What geographical consequences result from the absence of great mountain ranges in the interior of Australia ?

10. Describe the motions of cyclones and anti-cyclones in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

CHEMISTRY.

The Board of Examiners.

N.B.-Give equations for, as well as verbal accounts of, chemical changes.

1. If told that a certain element forms an oxide containing 50 per cent. of oxygen, what are you entitled to conclude concerning its atomic weight?

2. What is meant by substitution? Give instances.

3. Explain fully what is meant by the neutralization of an acid.

4. Of what elements is the earth's solid crust mainly composed? In what forms do they chiefly occur there?

5. Why does breathing through lime-water render it turbid? And why does this turbid liquid become clear again on the addition of hydrochloric acid?

6. Describe the preparation of oxygen from the air by means of barium oxide.

7. What is meant by the destructive distillation of organic matter? Describe any practical use of the process.

8. How does nitric acid act on copper? Contrast this with the action of hydrochloric acid on zinc.

9. How may potassium chloride and potassium chlorate be distinguished from one another? And how may the former be got from the latter?

10. How do ammonium chloride and ammonium nitrate respectively behave when heated?

PHYSICS.

The Board of Examiners.

Only EIGHT questions to be attempted.

1. Describe and explain an experimental method of finding the acceleration due to gravity.

2. State Newton's First Law of Motion, and deduce from it the definition of Force.

Define Inertia, Momentum, Impulse.

3. A stone weighing 10 lbs. is raised 30 feet above the ground; how much potential energy does it then possess? If let fall, what will be its velocity when it strikes the ground?

4. A uniform lever 4 feet long, the fulcrum being at one end, weighs 2 lbs. A weight of 1 lb. is hung from it at a distance of 1 foot from the fulcrum. What upward pull must be applied at the other end in order to keep the lever horizontal ?

5. Give the statement and complete experimental proof of Boyle's law.

6. A solid is hung from one pan of a balance and counterpoised. It is then allowed to dip into water; 5 grams placed in the pan above it restore equilibrium. When allowed to dip into oil 145 grams are required. Find the specific gravity of the oil.

7. Describe some method of measuring the cubical expansion of a solid without finding its linear expansion.

8. What is the Unit of Heat, and what is meant by the statement that unit mass of water absorbs 537 units of heat during ebullition? How is the latter quantity determined?

9. State Dalton's Law

A vessel of 2 litres capacity contains air at a pressure of 76 cm.; two others, each of 1 litre capacity, contain respectively hydrogen at a pressure of 38 cm., and carbonic acid at a pressure of 19 cm.; the three are put into communication; what is the resulting gaseous pressure?

10. How may the conducting powers of different bodies for heat be compared?

ELEMENTARY ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY. The Board of Examiners.

Diagrams must be given where necessary.

1. State the normal temperature of the human body, and the causes which tend to keep the temperature steady at this point.