4. Describe all the soft structures concerned in the function of respiration in the various Orders of Fishes, and give the homologies, actions, and attachments of the bones taking part therein.

5. Characterize, by their chief anatomical and external characters, as many orders as you can of Animals breathing the air direct (without the intervention of water).

GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY.

The Board of Examiners.

1. What are the general characters, mineral composition, relative position, mode of occurrence, and effect on strata of the Igneous Rocks ?

2. Define the genera of fossils by which you might discriminate the Cambrian, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic,Oolitic, Wealden, and Cretaceous Formations from each other.

3. Give the generic characters of the more characteristic Vertebrata of the Pliocene formations in North America, South America, India, Australia, and New Zealand respectively.

4. Explain the general principles applied to the determination of the relative ages of strata, of veins,

and of upheavals respectively. And give examples in illustration of E. de Beaumont's classification of the mountain chains of Europe by age and direction.

5. What are the palæontological characteristics of the rocks intervening between the Silurian and the Carboniferous formations in the border country between England and Wales, in Scotland, in Russia, in the Eifel, and in Devonshire respectively, and how do they contribute to the conception of the Devonian System of Sedgwick and Murchison?

HONOUR EXAMINATION IN LAWS.

INTERNATIONAL LAW.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Trace the influence of Roman Law on International Law, and explain why, in your opinion, the latter is the offspring of modern times.

2. Subjects of the Emperor of China are without any previous warning absolutely prohibited from entering a British colony by the Government thereof. Write either a diplomatic note, purporting to come from the Chinese Court, protesting against the action and stating what may be its consequences, or a similar note, purporting to come from the British Minister, justifying and excusing it.

3. Summarize the provisions of the Foreign Enlistment Act, 33 & 34 Vict. c. 90.

Discuss the question whether the provisions. of a municipal law on this subject can be the measure of neutral obligation at International Law.

4. Who is a British subject?

5. What is the real analogy between the carriage of contraband and that of analogues of contraband?

Despatches dealing with the enemy's plan of campaign are conveyed in a neutral ship under

the sanction of the neutral ambassador resident in the enemy's country. Is this a ground for condemnation ? Give the reasons for your

answer.

6. Draw a series of clauses suitable for a Draft Code of Public International Law under the title Blockade.

7. Discuss the doctrine of Continuous Voyages as applied by the English Courts to cases within the Rule of War of 1756, and by the American Courts to cases of Contraband and Blockade.

8. State the advantages and disadvantages of making Political Nationality, instead of Domicil, the test of Personal Law and Jurisdiction.

9. When the capacity of a person to act in any given way is questioned in a Victorian Court on the ground of his age, to what law, in your opinion,. will such question be referred? Give the reasons for your answer.

10. What were the facts, the decisions, and the effect of the decisions in Blackwood v. The Queen, L.R., 8 Ap. Ca. 82, and The Queen v. Smith, 9 V.L.R. (L.), 404?

11. Is it an answer to a civil action in Victoria for a tort committed abroad that by the lex loci delicti commissi civil proceedings for the act in question must be accompanied or preceded by criminal proceedings? Give the reasons for your answer.

12. By an Act of the Legislature of a British colony it was enacted that the chairman of a company might sue and be sued on behalf of the company, and provided that execution upon any judgment against such chairman might be issued against the goods, &c., of any member of the company in like manner as if such judgment had been obtained against him personally. Could judgment obtained in the colony be made the foundation of an action in England against an English shareholder who had never resided in the colony, and who had not been served with process in the colonial action? Give the reasons for your

answer.

THE LAW OF WRONGS.

The Board of Examiners.

1. A is tenant of land, and B is the landlord of the same land. A third party commits a trespass on the land. Under what circumstances would

both A and B have a right to bring actions, and under what circumstances would A alone have such a right?

2. A causes the death of B. Under what circumstances, and at whose suit, is A liable, if at all, to an action?

3. What do you mean by "contributory negligence"? Illustrate your answer by two examples of negligence which would, in your