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(a.) Heat, including Radiant Heat. —Temperature; expansion; conduction and convection; latent heat; specific heat; calorimetry; hygrometry; sources of heat; the steam-engine; conservation and dissipation of energy; and radiation, absorption, transmission, reflection, and refraction of heat. (b.) Sound and Light. —The production and propagation of sound; vibrations of sounding bodies; interference; and the physical theory of music. Nature, production, and propagation of light; absorption ; reflection ; refraction; prismatic dispersion ; spectra ; fluorescence ; interference ; plane polarization ; and the principal optical instruments and vision. Or — Electricity and Magnetism. — Production and properties of statical and voltaic electricity; induction, including secondary currents; thermo- and magneto-electricity; electro-dynamics; magnetism and dia-magnetism; the electric telegraph; and electric measurements. (9.) Chemistry.— (Two papers.)—The chemical relations of cohesion, heat, light, and electricity; the general principles of chemical combination, notation, and nomenclature; the description and classification of the more important elements and compounds, and of organic bodies; qualitative analysis and calculations of chemical problems; and the description of the leading chemical theories. Note. —The division of this subject into two papers will be left to the discretion of the Examiner. (10.) Natural Science.—Either of the following branches: — A. Geology and Mineralogy. — (Two papers.)—Systems of crystallization; physical properties and chemical composition of the more important minerals; origin and classification of rocks ; formation of rock-beds and structure of. rock masses ; denudation and movements of the surface of the earth; chronological classification of rocks; the origin of the surface features of the earth; and the laws and generalizations of palaeontology. Note. —The division of this subject into two papers will be left to the discretion of the Examiner. B. Biology. — (Two papers.) — (a.) General principles of biology, including those of physiologj^ of distribution, and of classification. (b.) One of the following:—(1.) Zoology. — Animal morphology, the principal characters of the chief groups of animals, and the main facts of their distribution in time and space. (2.) Botany. —Vegetable morphology, including histology, the principal characters of the chief groups of plants, and the main facts of their distribution in time and space. (3.) Anatomy and Physiology. —Human anatomy and physiology. A candidate in natural science will be required, oil presenting himself for examination, to furnish to the Supervisor a certificate from a teacher of the subject or branch subject that he has passed a practical examination in such subject, as follows : —■ For Geology. —Determination by physical characters of minerals and rocks; determination of fossils; construction of geological sections. For Zoology.- —Dissection and microscopical examination of types of four different groups of invertebrate animals, and of the different groups of vertebrate animals. For Anatomy and Physiology. —Dissection of the human body. For Botany. —Dissection and microscopical examination of types of four different groups of cryptogamic plants, and of eight different orders of phanerogamic plants. (11.) Mental Science.— (Two papers.) — (a.) Psychology. — Outlines of the physiology of the nervous system; instinct; the senses and the intellect; abstraction ; perception. Ethics.— The psychology of the will; the ethical standard; the moral

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