SCHEME OF THE EXAMINATIONS PROPOSED BY THE SOCIETY OF ARTS, FOB CANDIDATES FROM INSTITUTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT SOCIETY. RULES. The Examinations will commence at 10 A.M. on Tuesday the 10th of June, 1856, at the Society's House in the Adelphi. Candidates who propose to offer themselves for Examination, must give written notices of their intention to the Secretary before the 31st of May, 1856. Each Candidate must state the Institution to which he belongs, his age, his employment, and by whom employed, and the subjects in which he desires to be examined. All Candidates will be required to possess a competent knowledge of Writing and Spelling. *The Examiners define good writing as a bold hand, in which all the letters are distinctly and completely formed. Every Candidate will be expected to come prepared in two subjects (not sub-divisions of subjects) at least. The Examiners in Science merely recommend the text-books set down: they will be prepared to recognise knowledge, however obtained. The Examination will be conducted by written papers and by oral examination. The Examiners will award Certificates of Three Classes. First Class Certificates will be awarded only to a high degree of excellence. Should the proposed Examinations receive the approbation and support of those classes for whose benefit they are undertaken-employers and candidates for employment-the Council of the Society of Arts will be prepared to take into their consideration the propriety of extending the advantages of the system to the more remote parts of the country. Society's House, Adelphi, London. March 22, 1856. PRIZES FOR 1856. Mr. R. Stephenson, M.P., Vice President of the Society of Arts, has placed Ten Guineas at the disposal of the Council, who have determined to award it to the Candidate who shall pass the best Examination in Mathematics and Mechanics, and obtain a First Class Certificate in each. Mr. George F. Wilson gives a Prize of Ten Guineas, to be awarded to the Candidate who shall pass the best Examination in Chemistry, and obtain a First Class Certificate therein. Mr. Mechi gives a Prize of Ten Guineas, to be awarded to the Candidate who shall pass the best Examination in the Principles of Agriculture and obtain a First Class Certificate therein. Mr. Samuel Morley has placed Ten Guineas at the disposal of the Council, who have determined to award it to the Candidate who shall pass the best Examination in Physical Geography, and obtain a First Class Certificate therein. Mr. Charles Wentworth Dilke, Vice President of the Society of Arts, gives a Irize of Ten Guineas, to be awarded to the Candidate who shall pass the best Examination in English History, and obtain a First Class Certificate therein. Mr. G. N. Hooper gives a Prize of Ten Guineas, to be awarded to the Candidate who shall pass the best Examination in French, and obtain a First Class Certificate therein. Mr. Peter Graham gives a Prize of Ten Guineas, to be awarded to the Candidate who shall exhibit the greatest proficiency in Free Drawing in Outline, and obtain a First Class Certificate therein. Mr. John Wood, the Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, has placed two appointments annually, in the Surveying Department of the Excise, at the disposal of the Council of the Society of Arts.* No Candidate will be recommended for these appointments who shall not obtain Second Class Certificates at least in Mathematics, Chemistry, English Composition, and Writing from Dictation. The Society of Arts will give a Prize of Twenty-five Guineas to that Candidate who shall be recommended to the Council by the Board of Examiners for General Excellence in the Examinations. * The following are the rules laid down by the Commissioners, with respect to the qualifications of Candidates for admission into the Surveying branch of the Revenue:The Candidate must, on entering the service, be not less than nineteen, nor more than twenty-five years of age. A baptismal certificate, or other satisfactory evidence, will be required. He must be healthy and active, and without any bodily infirmity. Of this a medical certificate will be required. He must not be encumbered with debts; and must be unmarried, and without family, and of respectable character; and he will not be allowed to marry until he attains the rank of ide officer. He must understand arithmetic, so as to work out sums in the rules of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, both in common arithmetic and in vulgar and decimal fractions reduction, proportion, practice, and interest. He must be able to write a good hand, and correctly and fluently from dictation; and have a competent knowledge of bookKeeping by double entry. He will undergo an examination in the above-named subjects, and if approved will be placed under the instruction of an Excise officer for at least six weeks; at the expiration of which period, if he be found qualified to perform the duty of an officer, he will be certi fied for accordingly, and his salary will commence. By Order, P. LE NEVE FOSTER, Secretary, 111 Subdivisions, Text Books, and Limits. Arithmetic, Book keeping, Algebra, Euclid, Mensuration. Barnard Smith's Arithmetic (Bell and Daldy), or Colenso's Arithmetic (Longmans), to end of Proportion. Bookkeeping by Double Entry, Irish School Series (Groombridge). Colenso's Algebra (Longmans), to end of Quadratic Equations. Euclid, books I., ÎI.. III. Tate's Mensuration (Longmans), or Mensuration, Irish School Series (Groombridge), Kelly's Elements of Book-keeping (Simpkin and Co.), Morrison's System of Bookkeeping (Griffin). Statics. The principles of Mechanism and their application to Simple Machines, to the Steam Engine, &c. Fowler's Mechanics (National Society). Galbraith and Haughton's Manual of Mechanics (Longmans). Lardner's Handbook of Mechanics (Walton and Maberley). Bird and Brooke's Elements of Physic (Churchill). Organic and Inorganic. Wilson's Chemistry (Chambers' Educational Course). Fowne's Manual of Chemistry (Churchill). Carpenter's Manual (Churchill). General Structure, and Systematic Botany. Lindley's School Botany, (Longmans), Flowers of the Field, by Rev. C. Johns (Christian Knowledge Society). Henfrey's Rudiments of Botany (Van Voorst). Such a general knowledge of Farm Practice and of the management of live stock as must, to some extent, at any rate, have been obtained in the field. Low's Elementary Agriculture (Longmans), Johnston's Agricultural Chemistry (Blackwood), Mr. Pusey's Papers on the Progress of Agricultural Knowledge, in the 26th No. of the Royal Agricultural Society's Journal. Subjects and Names of the Examiners. GEOGRAPHY. Rev. Dr. Booth, F.R.S. ENGLISH HISTORY. Professor Brewer Rev. F. Temple ENGLISH LITERATURE. ENGLISH COMPOSITION. WRITING FROM DICTATION. Professor Brewer Rev. Dr. Elder Rev. W. Elliott Rev. F. Temple ROMAN HISTORY: LATIN. Professor Browne Mr. Sandford FRENCH. Professor Brasseur GERMAN. Dr. Bernays FREE HAND DRAWING IN OUTLINE FROM OBJECTS. Mr. John Bell, Mr. F. S. Cary Subdivisions, Text Books, and Limits. Political and Physical. Cornwell's School Geography (Simpkin and Co.). Sullivan's Geography, Irish School Series (Groombridge). Milner's Geography (Tract Society), W. Hughes' Physical Geog. (Longmans). Ince's Outlines of English History (Gilbert). A more extensive knowledge of the following reigns-Alfred, William I., John, Henry VIII., Elizabeth, and the Stuarts to end of the reign of Anne. Bromby's English Grammar (Simpkin and Co.). Chaucer's Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. Spenser's Fairy Queen, First Book. Shakespeare: King John, Henry IV., Henry V., Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello. Bacon: First Book of the Novum Organum; the Preface, Fifth and Seventh Books of the Advancement of Learning. Milton's Paradise Lost. Dryden: Virgil's Eneid, Six Books. Spectator. Pope: Poetical Works. Butler's Analogy. Wordsworth: Excursion, or Lyrical Ballads. Tennyson. Candidates may take up any two authors of the above. To end of Punic Wars, or from that date to the death of Augustus Cæsar. Dawson Turner's Outlines of Roman History (Parker). Cæsar: First book. Sallust: Jugurthine War. Grandeur et Décadence des Romains, par Montesquieu, jusqu'à la fin du Chap. II. La Henriade, jusqu'à la fin du Chant II. Treue bis in den Tod, by G Nieritz. Schiller's Jungfrau von Orleans. |