ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY.

PROFESSOR BLANEY; PROFESSOR HARTOG; PROFESSOR SIGERSON.

1. Discuss the influence of the respiratory movements on blood-pressure.

2. Describe the evidence indicating the existence of vasodilator nerves.

3. State and discuss any two views of the structure and mechanism of contraction of striated muscular fibre.

4. Discuss the chief views of the structure of living protoplasm.

5. Explain the functions of the cerebellum.

6. Enumerate the closed glands, and indicate their functions.

VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY.

PROFESSOR BLANEY; PROFESSOR HARTOG; PROFESSOR SIGERSON.

1. Describe carefully the processes concerned in the 'bleeding' of vines.

2. Discuss the peculiarities of structure of aquatic plants to adapt them to their environment.

3. Discuss the absorption of mineral substances, soluble and partially soluble, from the soil.

4. Discuss the phenomenon of so-called 'intra-molecular respiration' in plants.

5. Explain the relations between temperature and plantgrowth.

6. State the influence of centrifugal force on cell-develop

ment.

PRACTICAL PHYSIOLOGY.

1. Prepare a longitudinal section of the plant provided, so as to demonstrate sieve-tubes and investigate the microchemical reaction of sieve-plates.

2. Prepare carbonic oxide hæmoglobin, and determine its spectrum.

3. Ascertain the proteid present in the solution provided. 4. Ascertain the action of the ferment provided.

GEOLOGY.

FIRST PAPER.

PROFESSOR ANDERSON; PROFESSOR CUNNINGHAM.

1. Compare the eastern with the western parts of the British Isles, as regards the rocks which are illustrated in these parts. If any formation found in the British Isles is better illustrated on the continent of Europe, refer to this fact.

2. How would you account for the similarity in certain American plants and animals to plants and animals of similar orders in countries separated from America by sea?

3. What advantages are possessed by Mollusca in aiding geologists to determine the horizon of strata? Illustrate.

4. Give a careful description of the principal modifications of the mono- and triclinic systems, citing instances of minerals which exemplify them.

5. Give an account of the gases of the atmosphere.

6. Describe the nature and distribution of cyclones.

SECOND PAPER.

PROFESSOR ANDERSON; PROFESSOR CUNNINGHAM.

1. Note the faces of the diametral prism (trimetric system). Take then the faces produced by truncation or bevelling, e.g. the prisms, pyramids, or domes; and explain how these faces can be intelligibly noted.

2. Pyrite and Galena are correctly referred to the cubic system. What facts besides the crystal forms must influence one in locating in its system either of the above or some other mineral?

3. How would you proceed to examine a section of a mineral microscopically? What revelations may the microscope make as regards structure?

4. Give an account of the Glacial Period.

5. Give an outline of the flora of the Mezozoic Epoch.

6. Describe the various phases of Triassic strata as exemplified in Europe.

M. A. DEGREE AND STUDENTSHIP

EXAMINATION.

I. ANCIENT CLASSICS.

LATIN.

FIRST PAPER.

PROFESSOR MACMASTER.

1. Translate, with brief annotation :—

Perfidiae laudes gratiasque habemus merito magnas,
Quom nostris sycophantiis dolis astutiisque,
Scapularum confidentia, virtute ulmorum freti,
Advorsum stetimus lamminas, crucesque, com-
pedesque,

Nervos, catenas, carceres, numellas, pedicas, boias,
Inductoresque acerrumos, gnarosque nostri tergi.
Eae nunc legiones, copiae, exercitusque eorum
Vi pugnando, periuriis nostris, fugae potiti.

PLAUTUS, Asinaria.

(b) LA. Nummi octingenti aurei in marsupio infuerunt : Praeterea centum nummi Philippei in pasceolo

sorsus.

GR. Magna hercle praeda est! largiter mercedis indipiscar!

Di homines respiciunt: bene ergo hinc praedatus ibo!

Profecto huius est is vidulus. Perge alia tu expedire. LA. Talentum argenti commodum magnum inerit crumina:

Praeterea sinus, cantharus, epichysis, gaulus, cyathus.

ID., Rudens.

(c) Nisi me animus fallit, haud multum a me aberit

infortunium :

Ita hac re in angustum oppido nunc meae coguntur copiae :

Nisi aliquid video, ne esse amicam hanc gnati resciscat senex.

Nam quod de argento sperem aut posse postulem me fallere,

Nil est triumpho, si licet me latere tecto abscedere. Crucior bolum mihi tantum ereptum tam desubito e faucibus.

Quid agam? aut quid comminiscar? ratio de integro ineundast mihi.

TERENCE, Heauton Timorumenos,

(d) Hoc salsum esse putas? Fugit te, inepte:
Quamvis sordida res et invenusta est.
Non credis mihi? crede Pollioni
Fratri, qui tua furta vel talento
Mutari velit est enim leporum
Disertus puer et facetiarum.

CATULLUS.

(e) Laeva colum molli lana retinebat amictum;
Dextera tum leviter deducens fila supinis

Formabat digitis, tum prono in pollice torquens
Libratum tereti versabat turbine fusum :
Atque ita decerpens aequabat semper opus dens,
Laneaque aridulis haerebant morsa labellis,
Quae prius in levi fuerant exstantia filo.
Ante pedes autem candentis mollia lanae
Vellera virgati custodibant calathisci.

(Ac veluti pleno lupus insidiatus ovili

Ibid.

Quum fremit ad caulas, ventos perpessus et imbres
Nocte super media (tuti sub matribus agni
Balatum exercent, ille asper et improbus ira
Saevit in absentes, collecta fatigat edendi
Ex longo rabies, et siccae sanguine fauces)
Haud aliter Rutulo, muros et castra tuenti,
Ignescunt irae.

VIRGIL, Aeneid. (g) Tempora signavit leviorum Roma malorum :

Hunc voluit nescire diem. Pro tristia fata !