with its applications. According to their previous studies they may select either of the following papers :

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1. Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, continued.

2. One or more of such subjects as Interest, Annuities, Measurement, Mechanics, Navigation, &c.

FOURTH DAY.-Department D, PRACTICAL SCIENCE AND Art.

I. Elementary Examination.

The object of this part of the examination is to call attention to facts of general application in the material world as a foundation for special experience.

It will include practical construction of simple forms (without Mathematical proof), common properties of bodies, and Physical Geography.

II. Special Examination.-After passing the Elementary Examination in Science or Art, Candidates may choose between papers prepared with a view to their respective future employments. Some questions, such as those relating to Book-keeping, Building, Machinery, will enter into more than one paper, so that each Candidate may have an opportunity of answering them: the papers will be arranged under three heads:

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1. Agriculture.

2. Commerce and Manufactures.

3. The Arts.

In addition to, or in lieu of, either of these special papers, Candidates may be examined generally in Music or Drawing.

The subjects of the several parts of the examination are purposely stated here in very general terms, lest the multiplicity of subjects named should cause confusion, or give rise to unfounded apprehension of the difficulties of the examination. The subjects enumerated are not put forward as a suitable scheme of instruction for any one student. The Committee are only desirous that all the Candidates, however taught, should have an opportunity of being examined in what they have respectively learned: and that their detention at the place o examination, consistently with this object, should be as short as possible.

N.B. Further particulars (contained in a supplementary paper)

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may be obtained on application to the Assistant Secretary, together with suggestions as to books by which Candidates may be assisted in their studies.

T. D. ACLAND, Junr., Secretary.

197, High-street, Exeter, February 17, 1857.

5. Second Notice to Competitors, explanatory of Regulations, with further details of Subjects for Examination.

The Notice to Competitors, No. I., contains the general regulations to be observed by Candidates, an outline of the course of examination, and the list of Prizes offered.

This paper, No. II., is intended to give some general explanations of the intention of the regulations, and further detail as to the subjects of examination.

General Regulations.-Great difficulty attends the attempt to define the class of schools from which Candidates ought to be received: for the present no such attempt is made; the intended occupation of the Candidate as declared by the parent being proposed in lieu of any definition of the Schools. The Committee reserve to themselves the power of admitting or excluding Candidates in special cases, or of laying down any further rule on the subject.

It is not necessary that Candidates should be pupils in a school at the time when they offer themselves for examination : one of the objects aimed at is, to encourage youths to carry on the work of self-education after leaving school.

Preliminary Examination. This is merely intended to discover palpable deficiency in the rudiments, should it unexpectedly exist, in order to save any Candidate who may be so deficient from incurring, with no chance of success, needless expense.

Elementary Examination in each Department.-This is distinct from the preliminary examination. The value to be attached to the questions in this part of the examination will be so high, that completeness and accuracy in the answers will secure, at least to boys in the junior division, a high position in the class list.

Higher or Special Examination in each Department. In every case more subjects are included under this head than any one candidate is expected to be examined in. In order to discourage superficial know

ledge, it has been decided that Candidates must gain a certain fixed number of marks on each subject, or the marks gained on that subject will not be reckoned in their favour. It will therefore be better to answer on one or two subjects completely, than to answer imperfectly on several.

In every Department a certain number of marks must be gained in the Elementary Examination before the answers to questions in the higher or Special Examination in the same Department can be looked at.

In the case of Department D (Science and Art) a certain minimum standard must have previously been attained either in Department P (Language and History), or in Department C (Mathematics;) the Candidate selecting whichever of those two (B or C) he prefers.

In the case of Department A, provided there has been no failure in the Preliminary Examination, a prize may be gained without reference to any other Department. It cannot be doubted that the diligent study of the subjects included in this Department will cultivate the mind, and that youths who have no time for secular study should be encouraged to improve themselves in religious knowledge.

It may save trouble to Candidates to point out the effect of the above regulations on the Examination in each Department.

All Candidates in A will have to pass

1. The Preliminary Examination.

2. The Elementary Examination in A.

All Candidates in B or C will have to pass—

1. The Preliminary Examination.

2. The Elementary Examination in A (unless declined under Rule 5).

3. The Elementary Examination in B or C, as the case may be.

N.B. No Candidate is obliged to be examined both in B and C, unless he wishes to compete for Prizes in both those Departments.

All Candidates in D will have to pass

1. The Preliminary Examination.

2. The Elementary Examination in A (unless declined under Rule 5).

3. The Elementary Examination in B or C.

4. The Elementary Examination in D.

Except as above provided, Candidates are at liberty to select

of the Departments of the Examination.

any one

FIRST DAY.--PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION.

Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic, as above explained.

Department A, RELIGIOUS Knowledge.

The particulars given under this department were repeated verbatim from the first notice. For further particulars see Final Notice below.

SECOND DAY.-DEPARTMENT B, LANGUAGE and HISTORY.

I. Elementary Examination.

Same as in First Notice. Page 116.

II. Higher Examination.—Alternative papers, one or two, but not more than two, of which may be answered.

II. Higher Examination.

1. Arithmetic. Properties of Numbers.

Algebra, including Quadratics, Ratios, and Logarithms.
Geometry, Euclid to end of Book VI.

Trigonometry.

2. Interest, Annuities, &c.

Mensuration and Surveying. The use of Logarithms.

Elements of Natural Philosophy treated Mathematically.

Navigation; Popular Astronomy; and Mathematical Geography.

Candidates may obtain the highest credit by good answers to either of these sections 1 and 2; but as it is not desirable in an examination of this kind to draw too strict a line between pure and applied Mathematics, Candidates may answer questions in both sections.

FOURTH DAY.-Department D, PRACTICAL SCIENCE and ART. 1. Elementary Examination.-One or more of the following subjects: Elements of Natural Philosophy (treated experimentally), of Chemistry, and of Physiology.

Laws of Colour, and practical construction of Geometrical Forms. Physical Geography.

The object of this examination is to encourage an acquaintance with principles and facts of general application as a foundation for special experience. Candidates in this department must have previously passed in B or C (see above).

II. Special Examination.-Alternative papers, according to the employment for which the Candidate has been educated.

See general remarks on the higher or special examinations above.

Either in addition to or in lieu of any of the above special papers, Candidates may be examined generally in Music or Drawing.

NOTE. It will be observed that the above arrangement of subjects is adopted with a view to considerations of convenience and practical utility, and not with regard to scientific division. Some subjects are therefore introduced in more than one Department.

"The first examination will be held in the summer 1857, at such town or towns as may be decided on."-Prop. 7.

Further notice of the time and place of examination will be given to all who signify their intention of becoming Candidates for the Prizes. T. D. ACLAND, Junr., Secretary.

Exeter, February 20th, 1857.