Class II.-Optional Subjects. [A Candidate may take any two, but not more than two, of the optional subjects.] 4. Mathematics (higher), including Analytical Geometry, 5. French (400 for colloquial), 6. Latin, Marks. 2000 2000 2000 2000 8. English History. There will be set-one General Paper; one Paper limited to a fixed period, which will be from the year 1660 to the year 1727 for the Examination in 1897, *9. Botany, viz. the Elementary parts of Vegetable Morphology, Histology, and Physiology, and the Principles of a Natural System of Classification as illustrated by the more important British natural orders. Candidates will be desired to describe plants in technical language. Questions will not be set on Vegetable Palæontology or on the Geographical Distribution of Plants, 2000 2000 *10. Chemistry, viz. the Elements of Inorganic Chemistry, 2000 2000 *12. Physical Geography and Geology, chiefly Economic; including the recognition of the more familiar minerals and rocks, and their properties and uses, . 2000 Class III.-Additional Subjects. † 13. Freehand Drawing. † 14. Geometrical Drawing. With a view to prevent parents and guardians from incurring the inconvenience and expense of preparing unfit Candidates, it is suggested that the Family Medical Adviser, or any other qualified Medical Practitioner, should be consulted with regard to the following points: 1. Weak constitution. 2. Defective vision. 4. Congenital defects. [This private examination in no way influences the official examination.] * Examination partly practical. Either or both of these subjects may be taken in addition to the obligatory and the two optional subjects. ន An applicant must be a natural-born British subject, and must be above 17 and under 20 years of age on the 1st June of the year in which he competes for an appointment. Selected Candidates will enter the Forest Service branch of the Royal Indian Engineering College, Cooper's Hill. REGULATIONS FOR ADMISSION TO THE INDIAN POLICE FORCE THROUGH A COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION IN LONDON IN JUNE, 1897. The Examination will be simultaneous with, and (except that French may be taken instead of German as an Obligatory Subject) in the same subjects and Papers as, the Examination for the Indian Forest Department, which is usually held in June. Candidates must be British-born or naturalized British subjects. They must be above 19 and under 21 years of age on the 1st of June, 1897. They must be unmarried, and if they marry before reaching India, they will forfeit their appointments. Candidates must send to the Secretary, Judicial and Public Department, India Office, on or before 15th May, 1897 :(a) Information as to their names and parentage, certificates (or other satisfactory evidence) of the date of their birth, and the written consent of parent or guardian to their Candidature. (b) A statement of the places at which they have been educated, accompanied by testimonials of good conduct during the last four years. (c) An intimation of their wishes as to the Province or Provinces in which they would prefer to serve, and of any special reasons for such preference. Candidates will be required to appear before a Medical Board at the India Office and to undergo a strict Examination as to their physique and capacity for active out-door work in the plains of India. Selected Candidates will be examined by the Civil Service Commissioners as to their ability to ride, and will be required to produce : (a) A Certificate from the Civil Service Commissioners that they are able to ride well and to perform journeys on horseback; or (b) A Certificate from the Civil Service Commissioners of minimum proficiency in riding. In the latter case they will be subjected, on their arrival in India, to such further tests in riding as may be prescribed by their Government, and will not be appointed Assistant Superintendents of Police until they shall have passed such tests to the satisfaction of their Government. The probationer will be required to start for India not later than October, 1897. INDIA OFFICE, September, 1896. Full regulations for all Home and Indian Competitions may be obtained on application to THE SECRETARY, Civil Service Commission, London, S. W. EXAMINATION PAPERS, 1897-98 MATRICULATION. LATIN. Examiner-PROFESSOR SANDFORD. LATIN GRAMMAR, COMPOSITION, AND HISTORY. 1. Give the meaning, gender, and genitive case singular of-pulvis, senex, frons, eques, salus, cornu. 2. Compare the adverbs formed from the adjectives— magnus, bonus, facilis, acer, audax. 3. Give the meanings and principal parts of the verbssentio, reperio, tego, nitor, veto, facio, fero. 4. What cases are used to denote (a) the measure of extent, (b) the price, (c) rest in a place? Give examples. 5. Form sentences illustrating the use of (a) qui with the subjunctive mood, and (b) the future infinitive passive. 6. Translate into Latin :— (a) On being asked his opinion, he said that the citizens should be spared. (b) I fear that all the best men are delaying in the valley. All of us, with the leader, will advance to the top of the mountain. (c) When will you believe that I am consulting your true interests ? (d) When the enemy was conquered, our men returned to the camp, but the allies went home. 7. (a) What civil wars took place in the first century B. C. ? With what results? (b) What wars did the Romans carry on between 300 and 200 B. C.? (c) Contrast the condition of the citizens of Rome at about 375 B. c. with their condition one hundred years later. (d) Give a list of chief magistrates at Rome. (e) Write a short life of Cicero. ENGLISH. Examiner-THE PRESIDENT. 1. As an exercise in Composition, write out the substance of Goldsmith's Essay on The Instability of Worldly Grandeur. 2. Why does Goldsmith consider the reign of Queen Anne the Augustan Age of England? Give his remarks on the style of Locke, of Lord Shaftesbury, and Lord Bolingbroke. 3. Explain the following passage from Lycidas:— 'Or whether thou to our moist vows denied, Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old, Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks towards Namaucos and Bayona's hold :—' 4. Quote the reference to Shakspere and Johnson in L'Allegro, and to Chaucer in Il Penseroso. 5. Dr. Johnson says, 'For the old age of Cheerfulness Milton makes no provision; but Melancholy he conducts with great dignity to the close of life.' Illustrate this remark by quoting the closing lines of each poem. 6. Quote the first and the last stanza of Gray's Elegy, of The Bard, and of the Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College. 7. How were the Isles of Greece' divided? 8. Give the Latin names of the Danube, the Rhine, the Rhone, the Seine, the Saône, the Lake of Como, and the Sea of Azoff. T |