5. Establish a formula connecting the amount of a sudden change of pressure in a liquid with its accompanying change of temperature, and describe the most striking experiments by which the formula was verified. 6. Discuss the nature of the evidence on which the second law of Thermodynamics rests. 7. Explain a method of determining the uncorrected deviation error of a transit instrument, and obtain an expression for the amount of its effect on the time of transit of a star. 8. Give a sketch of the operations by which the figure and dimensions of the earth have been determined. 9. Explain the effect of aberration on the apparent position of a star, and describe how the constant of aberration is determined. 10. Shew how the velocity of sound in a gas may be experimentally obtained by means of organ-pipes. 11. Describe such crucial tests as you know have been applied to discriminate between the emission and undulatory theories of light. 12. Explain the rectilinear propagation of light on the wave theory. Ε ANCIENT HISTORY. The Board of Examiners. 1. What was the practice in early times among races of Aryan origin as to (1) the alienability and (2) the mode of occupancy of land? trations from your reading. Give illus 2. How were Agnati distinguished from Gentiles? 3. Give some account of the system of personal nomenclature at Rome. How was a man's name affected by (1) manumission, (2) adoption? 4. What were the ordinary limitations to the authority of the Tribune? 5. Sketch the history of the Equites, and shew how they became an Ordo in the state. 6. Trace the history of the gradual weakening of the control exercised by the Senate over the comitia. 7. "Exilium et carcer Minturnarumque paludes Et mendicatus victa Carthagine panis." Juvenal x. 276. Explain the allusion in this passage. 8. Summarise the chief events in the conflict between Rome and Mithradates, and connect them with the current internal history of the republic. 9. Explain Dean Merivale's statement that the constitution of Sulla was overthrown not in the field of battle but on the floor of the law-courts. 10. In what reign, and for what reasons, was the law of Rome supposed to have attained its full maturity? 11. Describe, with proper dates, the career of Aurelian. 12. Explain the circumstances under which Theodoric occupied Italy. HISTORY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.-PART I. The Board of Examiners. 1. Give the terms of the treaty of Wedmore, and trace the subsequent growth of West Saxon power. 2. Whom would you select, and for what reasons, as the most distinguished (1) historian, (2) divine, (3) translator, who flourished during the AngloSaxon period? 3. Sketch the historical origin of Feudalism. 4. Explain the policy of William the First towards the Church. Contrast it with that of his sons. 5. In what cases since the Conquest has Parliament exercised the power of altering the succession to the Crown? 6. Sketch the career of Simon de Montfort. 7. Describe the mode of formation of craft gilds. What causes led to their decline? 8. Give some account of the Lollards. 9. By what measures did Henry the Seventh counteract the dangers to which his acceptance of the Crown had exposed him? 10. Give an account of any acts of resistance or remonstrance produced by the exactions levied by James the First without the consent of Parliament. 11. Give some account of the affairs of Ireland during the reign of Charles the First. 12. Summarise the principal features of English parliamentary history from 1648 to the election of the Cavalier Parliament. HISTORY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.-PART II. The Board of Examiners. 1. Give the circumstances under which the Walpole Ministry came into power, and state Walpole's general policy. 2. Describe the expansion of British dominion which took place during the last years of the reign of George II. What party was in office at this 3. Upon what question did Pitt resign in 1761, and who then became first Minister of the Crown? 4. Give an outline of the part played by Edmund Burke in English politics. 5. "Few victories in history have produced more effective results than the battle of the Nile." Shew the truth of this statement, and give the date of that battle. 6. When, and under what circumstances, did the British Government acquire the following possessions:-Malta, Cape Colony, Cyprus, Ceylon, the Hudson's Bay Territory? 7. State briefly the measures of the Scotch Parliament of 1641. When were they annulled? 8. Give the chief provisions of the Union with Scotland in 1707. What modification has since taken place in any of them ? 9. Hallam remarks that the reign of James I. is "on the whole the most important in the constitutional history of Ireland." Why is it so? 10. Describe briefly the position in Irish political history of Lord Castlereagh, Henry Grattan, "The United Irishmen." 11. Summarise the progress of British rule in India under either (a) The Marquis of Wellesley, or |