ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY.

Examiners, Mr. KIERNAN and Prof. SHARPEY.

THURSDAY, October 30.—Morning, 10 to 1.

1. Describe the structure of the Circulating Organs, and the course of the blood in a Mammiferous Animal and in a Fish. Give an outline of the process of development of the heart and great vessels, and point out the correspondence between their transitory stages in the higher animals, and their permanent conditions in creatures lower in the scale.

2. State the views generally entertained respecting the development of the Animal Tissues from Cells, describing the changes through which these bodies appear to pass, and illustrating your answer by an account of the mode of formation and structure of Epithelium and Cartilage.

THURSDAY, October 30.—Afternoon, 3 to 6.

1. What ends are to be attained in the construction of a Respiratory Organ, and in what modes are these actually provided for? Describe the leading differences in the respiratory organs of warm and of cold-blooded animals, of those which are aquatic and those which breathe air; showing the adaptation of structure to function in the different cases, and selecting illustrative examples both from the vertebrated and invertebrated divisions of the animal kingdom.

2. Give an account of the processes of Mastication, Deglutition and Digestion; the answer to include,-1st, an outline of the structure and movements of the different parts concerned in these functions; 2nd, an account of the properties of the fluids poured into the alimentary canal and of their effects upon the ingesta; 3rd, an account of the absorption, nature and course of the chyle.

VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY AND STRUCTURAL

BOTANY.

Examiner, Rev. Prof. HENSLOW.

FRIDAY, October 31.-Morning, 10 to 1.

1. Define the Calyx; and explain the conditions under which it is characterized in the leading groups of Dicotyledones, viz. Thalamiflora, Calyciflora, Corollifloræ, and Monochlamydex.

2. Define a Pomum; and explain the modifications of its structure in Mespilus, Pyrus, and Cydonia.

3. Explain the origin and principal modifications of the Pappus of Compositæ.

4. What are the different modes by which Parasitic plants obtain their nourishment? and distinguish between them and Epiphytes.

5. How is a season so wet and cloudy as the past summer likely to have affected the vegetation of plants usually cultivated in our climate for economical purposes? Explain the probable effects to be expected in the formation of woody matter in such as are trees; in the tubers of such as are rather succulent and perennial; and in the fruit of such as are annual or biennial.

6. Describe the specimens on the table.

EXAMINATION IN THE HEBREW TEXT OF

THE OLD TESTAMENT, THE GREEK TEXT
OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, AND SCRIP-
TURE HISTORY.

MONDAY, October 27.-Morning, 10 to 1.

HEBREW TEXT OF THE BOOK OF GENESIS. Examiner, Rev. T. STONE.

What part of the verb is? Fill up the ellipsis, if any, and form a paradigm of the conjugations, &c. of this verb. : by what rule is the vowel (·) affixed to the first letter of this word?

חֲוִילה פישון Give the radical meaning of the words שהַם גְדֹלָה זָהָב

בקר Derive and explain the meaning of the words .2 עקרים חום טלוא

GENESIS, XXVI. 3.

3. Translate and affix the vowel points and principal accents to this passage :—

גור בארץ הזאת ואהיה עמך ואברכך כי לך ולזרעך אתן את כל הארצת האל והקמתי את השבעה אשר נשבעתי לאברהם אביך

a. 77, what conjugation is this? In what does it differ from the regular paradigm? What is the radical meaning of the word? Cite passages in which it has or appears to have a meaning opposite to that which it usually bears.

from what root is this word derived ? Ac, כשבעתי .3

count for the use of the niphal form.

4. Explain the use of the tonic and euphonic accents, and their relative situations in a word.

5. State the principal rules respecting the insertion or omission of Dagesh, as also those relating to the use of Sheva simple or compounded.

6. Translate into Hebrew :

Ἤκουσε δὲ Ἰακὼβ τὰ ῥήματα τῶν υἱῶν Λάβαν, λεγόντων,

Εἴληφεν Ἰακὼβ πάντα τὰ τοῦ πατρὸς ἡμῶν, καὶ ἐκ τῶν τοῦ πατρὸς ἡμῶν πεποίηκε πᾶσαν τὴν δόξαν ταύτην. Καὶ εἶδεν Ἰακὼβ τὸ πρόσωπον τοῦ Λάβαν, καὶ ἰδοὺ οὐκ ἦν πρὸς αὐτὸν ὡσεὶ χθὲς καὶ τρίτην ἡμέραν.

7. Give some account of the nature of the works known as the Talmud,' ' Mishna,' 'Gemara,'' Cabbala.'

MONDAY, October 27-Afternoon, 3 to 6.

GOSPEL OF ST. LUKE.

Examiner, Rev. W. Drake.

1. State generally the peculiarities of style observable in St. Luke's Gospel, first as compared with classical writers, and secondly as compared with the other evangelists; and hence deduce your own conclusion as to the parentage and occupation of the author.

2. Translate literally :

LUKE, Chap. I. v. 14-17 inclusive.

Καὶ ἔσται χαρά σοι καὶ ἀγαλλίασις, καὶ πολλοὶ ἐπὶ τῇ γεννήσει αὐτοῦ χαρήσονται. "Εσται γὰρ μέγας ἐνώπιον τοῦ Κυρίου· καὶ οἶνον καὶ σίκερα οὐ μὴ πίῃ· καὶ πνεύματος ἁγίου πλησθήσεται ἔτι ἐκ κοιλίας μητρὸς αὐτοῦ. Καὶ πολλοὺς τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ ἐπιστρέψει ἐπὶ Κύριον τὸν θεὸν αὐτῶν. Καὶ αὐτὸς προελεύσεται ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ ἐν πνεύματι καὶ δυνάμει Ηλίου, ἐπιστρέψαι καρδίας πατέρων ἐπὶ τέκνα, καὶ ἀπειθεῖς ἐν φρο νήσει δικαίων ἑτοιμάσαι Κυρίῳ λαὸν κατεσκευασμένον.

Explain ἀγαλλίασις and σίκερα, and trace the parallel between Elijah and John the Baptist. What does the term Nazarite signify?

3. Translate :

LUKE, Chap. XV. v. 11—19 inclusive.

Εἶπε δέ· "Ανθρωπός τις εἶχε δύο υἱούς. Καὶ εἶπεν ὁ νεώτερος αὐτῶν τῷ πατρί· Πάτερ, δός μοι τὸ ἐπιβάλλον μέρος