ENGLAND.

PRELIMINARY GENERAL EXAMINATION.-Midsummer, 1865.

THURSDAY, June 22nd.- Afternoon, 2 to 4.

NATURAL HISTORY.

Examiner.-C. H. SCHAIBLE, ESQ., M.D., PH.D.

I. BOTANY.

1. Describe the following plants;-and in doing so notice, if the subject permit, the following points: (i.) genus and species; (ii) country, locality, and soil; (iii.) parts, viz., roots, trunk or stem, branches, leaves, blossoms, fruits, seeds, shape, size, colour; (iv) time of inflorescence; (v.) mode and time of propagation; (vi.) use and usefulness of the whole or of some of the parts :

Wheat, Bean, Cotton, Rhubarb, Apple-tree, Tea.

2. Enumerate and classify some plants which are not natives of England, but which have been introduced into it, and now thrive there.

3. Describe a tea-leaf, and compare it to the leaves of other plants with which tea is often adulterated, viz. the sloe, willow, hawthorn, elder, beech, oak, camellia sasanqua, chlorantus inconspicuus.

4. Give the distinctive characters of the following natural Orders: Rosaceae, Liliaceae, Cupuliferae, Salicaceae.

5. Enumerate the various grains belonging to the Cerealia, English and foreign; give their distinctive characters, and compare their respective properties and uses.

II. ZOOLOGY.

1. Refer the following animals to their proper Classes and Orders :-camel, bear, goose, spider, dog.

2. Enumerate the Families constituting the Order Edentata in the Class Mammalia. Name a Genus belonging to each.

3. Enumerate and classify some of the animals which have been introduced into England from other countries.

4. Describe the general structure of the Asteroidea and Helianthoidea. Mention some Genus belonging to each Order, and state any important particulars relating to it.

5. Compare the organisation of Birds and of Mammals.

ENGLAND.

PRELIMINARY GENERAL EXAMINATION.-Midsummer, 1865.

THURSDAY, June 22nd.-Afternoon, 4 to 5.

GERMAN.

Examiner.-DR. C. H. SCHAIBLE.

I. Translate into English:

1. Auf dem weißen Berge, unweit Prag, fingen die Böhmen an sich zu verschanzen, als von der vereinigten kaiserlich-bayerischen Armee (am 8. November 1620) der Angriff geschah.

2. Am Anfange des Treffens wurden einige Vortheile von der Reiterei des Prinzen von Anhalt erfochten; aber die Uebermacht des Feindes vernichtete ste bald.

3. Unwiderstehlich drangen die Bayern und Wallonen vor, und die ungarische Reiterei war die erste, welche den Rücken wandte.

4. Das böhmische Fußvolk folgte bald ihrem Beispiele, und in der allgemeinen Flucht wurden endlich auch die Deutschen mit fortgerissen.

5. Zehn Kanonen, welche die ganze Artillerie Friedrichs ausmachten, fielen in Feindeshände.

6. Viertausend Böhmen blieben auf der Flucht und im Treffen, kaum etliche Hundert von den Kaiserlichen und Liguisten.

7. In weniger als einer Stunde war dieser entscheidende Sieg erfochten.

(SCHILLER'S Thirty Years' War.)

II. Grammatical Questions on the above passages.

[N.B.-The questions may be answered in German.]

1. State the gender, case, number, nominative and genitive singular and nominative plural, of all the substantives in paragraphs 1 and 2. Decline: die vereinigte kaiserlich-bayerische Armee.

2. Indicate the mood, tense, person, and number of all the verbs in paragraphs 3, 4, and 5. Give the 3rd person singular of the present, imperfect, and past tenses of all.

3. Conjugate, in the interrogative-negative form, the verb fortreißen.

4. Enumerate all the prepositions that occur in paragraphs 5, 6, 7; and name the cases they govern therein.

5. State why, in the 1st paragraph, the nominative die Böhmen follows the verb fingen.