4. Find the specific heat of paraffin wax both in the solid and liquid states; find also its latent heat of fusion.

5. Express graphically the relation between the refractive index and the concentration of aqueous solutions of the given substance.

6. Investigate the diffraction fringes produced by a narrow slit in parallel light, and deduce the wave length of the light employed.

PRACTICAL EXAMINATION.-SECOND DAY.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Determine the temperature coefficient of the given magnet.

2. Given an earth-inductor and a resistance box, determine the resistance of the given galvano

meter.

3. Find the temperature coefficient of the specific resistance of copper.

4. Determine by an electromagnetic method the ratio of the mean radii of the given coils.

5. Determine the inductance of the given coil.

6. Investigate and plot the external and total characteristics of the given dynamo.

SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCE.

PHYSICAL GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY.

Professor Sir Frederick McCoy.

1. Explain the general methods applied to the determination of the relative ages of strata, of veins, and of upheavals respectively. And give examples in illustration of Elie de Beaumont's classifications of the mountain chains of Europe by age and direction.

2. What are the general characters, mineral composition, relative positions, modes of occurrence, and effect on strata, of the Igneous Rocks ?

3. Give in as full detail as you can all the physical and chemical characters used for the determination and classification of minerals, with at least two of the classifications usually adopted. Explain the nature and mode of observing each of the physical characters referred to.

4. Characterise all the "fundamental forms," and as many as you can of the "secondary forms" of all the systems of crystals, giving the symbols for each face according to the notations of Miller, Weiss, and Naumann respectively.

5. Give the formula, percentage composition, and oxygen ratios of the chief Felspars, and state the characters by which the other commoner constituent minerals of Igneous Rocks may be recognised.

STRATIGRAPHICAL GEOLOGY AND

PALEONTOLOGY.

Professor Sir Frederick McCoy.

1. Write an Essay on the nature of "Geological Formations," and the reasons for adopting each of them (taken in chronological order).

2. Enumerate as many fossils characteristic of the recognised subdivisions of the Cambrian and Silurian Formations as you can, giving the generic characters of each.

3. Give the generic characters of the more characteristic vertebrata of the Pliocene and Pleistocene Formations in the North American, South American, Indian, Australian, and New Zealand regions respectively.

4. What are the palæontological characteristics of the rocks intervening between the Silurian and the Carboniferous Formations in (a) the border country between England and Wales, (b) in Scotland, (c) in Russia, (d) in the Eifel, and (e) in Devonshire respectively? And how do they contribute to the conception of the "Devonian System" of Sedgwick and Murchison?

5. What portions of the sections of Paris Basin, and those of the Isle of Wight, are referred to the Oligocene Tertiary Period? Define the genera of Mammalia confined to this epoch.

FINAL HONOUR EXAMINATION IN LAWS.

INTERNATIONAL LAW.

Professor Harrison Moore.

Candidates must not answer more than SIX questions.

1. How far does the maxim "nemo potest_exuere patriam" describe the present position of English law in regard to denationalization of British subjects and naturalization of aliens?

2. Consider the responsibility of the British Government for wrongs to the person or property of resident aliens by (a) the acts of a colonial Government; (b) a too zealous naval officer; (c) the violence of a mob. To what extent, if at all, is it material, in the first case, that the colony was a self-governing colony; in the second case, that there was a remedy in the English courts; in the third case, that all reasonable efforts were made to repress violence.

3. What are the grounds upon which a foreign judgment may be impeached? A brings an action against B in Spain, and obtains judgment for a definite sum of money. He sues upon the judgment in Victoria, and B defends on the ground that the cause of action upon which the judgment was given is unknown in Victoria. Is this a good defence?

4. A is a seaman engaged by an English shipping company to serve on a voyage from London to New Zealand and back at the wages current in London at the time of his engagement. The ship calls at several New Zealand ports and engages in the coasting trade there. By a New Zealand Act it is provided that seamen employed in the coasting trade shall be paid at a rate considerably higher than that for which A signed. On arrival in London A claims to be paid at the New Zealand rate for the time the ship was engaged in the coasting trade; the company refuses to pay, and refers A to his agreement; and A sues the company. Consider the case.

5. How does English law determine whether an obligation is assignable or an instrument negotiable?

6. (a) During the American War of Secession the Confederate Government incurred certain obligations, and had certain rights against foreign houses of trade. At the close of the war, what was the position of the Federal Government in regard to these obligations and rights?

(b) After a revolution in Peru, the new Government raises a loan. By another revolution the old Government is restored. For the purpose of determining its liability, it makes a voluntary appearance in an action brought in the English courts. Is it liable?

(c) Spain has from time to time borrowed money upon the revenues of Cuba. The independence of