3. Give approximately the limits of each of Forbes's Homoizoic Belts of distribution of Marine Plants and Animals, with some of the more characteristic genera of each,

4. Define the "Zoological Regions" of the earth generally recognized by zoologists, and state briefly the distinctive zoological character of each.

5. What are the characters assigned by Meyer to each of his zones of horizontal distribution of Plants on the earth?

6. Discuss the more important views held as to the specific character, original habitat, and wild native specific form of the domestic horse, ox, dog, and cat, and of such food-plants as barley, oats, wheat, potato, cabbage.

7. Shew how the "Representative Forms" in different countries affect the theory of Geographical Distribution of Plants and Animals from single centres of creation, and the theories of the influence of local causes on species.

8. Give the geographical distribution of the more remarkable families of Reptilia.

9. What families of Birds are remarkable for their very restricted geographical distribution?

10. What inference would you draw from the absence of species of crows from South America, of Sus, Cervus, and Ursus from South Africa, and of Woodpeckers, Pachydermata, Ruminantia,

and Quadrumana from Australia? How do the facts bear on the theories of the relation. of local conditions to geographical distribution of types?

GENERAL EXTERNAL AND ANATOMICAL CHARACTERS OF THE CLASSES, ORDERS, AND FAMILIES OF ANIMALS.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Describe the origin, development, structure, and function of the Allantois, and define by their systematic characters the orders of Animals in which it occurs, and those in which it is absent.

2. Enumerate all the bones of the skeleton in any mammal, giving the serial, special, and general homologies of each. Distinguish those of the capsules of the senses, and the splanchnic and dermal bones from those of the Neuro-skeleton; and those of cartilaginous from those of fibrous origin.

3. Define the Families of the Scansores, noting the objections to the older classifications of the subdivisions of the group. What are the arguments in favour of the modern view of separating the Swifts from the Swallows in different Orders?

4. Give the anatomical peculiarities, and the external characters used for systematic classification; of each of the classes of the Cuvierian group Radiata.

5. Define the classes of the Articulata by their external characters, and give the chief anatomical characteristics of each.

6. Describe the progressive stages of development of the Ovum of an Invertebrate, and of a Vertebrate animal respectively.

7. Define the chief Families of the Ruminantia, and give the chief anatomical peculiarities of the group.

8. Describe the brain of any bony Fish, and give the chief characters of the Cerebro-spinal and of the sympathetic systems of nerves in the Vertebrata generally; and discuss the supposed relations between the ganglionic and the great sympathetic systems of the Vertebrata and the Nervous systems of Invertebrate Animals, and the objections to those views.

9. Define the Orders of the Mollusca and Molluscoidea, and discuss the reasons for and against uniting those groups.

10. Describe all the "regions" of the carapace and the parts of the diverging appendages used for the classification of the higher Crustacea, and define the chief Families of the class.

EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF
DOCTOR OF LAWS.

THE PRINCIPLES OF LEGISLATION.

Mr. Hood.

1. Illustrate the objective difficulties met with in the study of Sociology.

2. Illustrate the effect of the bias of Patriotism upon the study of Sociology.

3. In what manner is the study of Sociology assisted by a training in—

(a) Abstract Science ?

(b) Abstract-Concrete Science?

(c) Concrete Science ?.

4. "Hence to have complete felicity is to have all the faculties exerted in the ratio of their several developments." Explain this.

5. "Man will eventually become completely suited to his mode of life." How does Mr. Spencer

establish this proposition ?

6. "Equity therefore does not permit property in land." Discuss this.

7. "Of the political superstitions lately alluded to none is so universally diffused as the notion that

majorities are omnipotent. The very existence of majorities and minorities is indicative of an immoral state." Discuss these statements.

8. Discuss the limit of State Duty.

9. "There are many acts useful to the community which legislation ought not to command; there are also many injurious which it ought not to forbid although morality does so." Explain this.

10. State Bentham's arguments in support of the propositions that the Legislature ought to establish a regular contribution for

(a) the wants of indigence,

(b) the expenses of public worship.

11. "There are cases in which the law ought not to sanction exchanges." State them.

12. State some of the extenuations which ought to have an effect in diminishing punishment.

13. State and discuss the various reasons given by Mr. Spencer for regarding a society as an organism.

14. "But now let us drop this alleged parallelism between individual organizations and social organizations. I have used the analogies elaborated but as a scaffolding to help in building up a coherent body of sociological inductions." State and discuss these inductions.