The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 50
Section XI.—Course in Science. — Chapter XXII.—Matriculation in Science
Section XI.—Course in Science.
Chapter XXII.—Matriculation in Science.
" I do solemnly promise that I will faithfully obey the Statutes of the University, so far as they apply to me; and I hereby declare that I believe myself to have attained the age of sixteen years."
III. The fee for the Matriculation Examination in science shall be one guinea.
Chapter XXIII.— The Degree of Bachelor of Science.
I. All candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Science shall be required to keep terms as now prescribed in the statue "Terms and Lectures," and shall also be required to go through a prescribed course of practical work at an affiliated institution in each of their science subjects in which a practical examination is required.
1. | Mathematics. |
2. | Physical Science. |
3. | Chemistry. |
4. | Natural Science. |
5. | Latin. |
6. | Greek. |
7. | English. |
8. | Modern Languages. |
9. | Mental Science. |
The subjects will be divided as follows:—
( a) | Heat, including Radiant Heat.—Temperature;, expansion; conduction and convection; latent heat, specific heat; calorimetry; hygrometry; sources of heat; the steam engine; conservation and dissipation of energy; and radiation, absorption, transmission, reflection, and refraction of heat. Either |
( b) | Sound and Light.—The production and propagation of sound; vibration of sounding bodies; interference; and the physical theory of music. Nature, production, and propagation of light; absorption; reflection; refraction; prismatic dispersion; spectra; fluorescence; interference; plane polarization; and the principal optical instruments and vision. Or |
( c) | Electricity and Magnetism.—Production and properties of statical and voltaic electricity; induction, including secondary currents; thermo and magneto-electricity; electro-dynamics; magnetism and diamagnetism; the electric telegraph; and electric measurements. |
(a) | Heat.—Use of thermometer, barometer, and hygrometer; determination of the density of solids and liquids; calculation of the density of gases from observations of their temperature and pressure; calorimetry. |
( b) | Sound and Light.—Use of goniometer, photometer, spectroscope, telescope, and microscope; determination of the curvature, focal length, and magnifying power of lenses; determination of the refractive index of solids and liquid?. |
( c) | Electricity and Magnetism.—Use of electrometer, galvanometer, voltameter, Wheatstone's bridge, and resistance coils; determination of the resistance of conductors and batteries; determination of the electro-motive force of batteries, and of the strength of currents; measurement-of magnetic forces. |
The certificate must be given by a teacher in an affiliated institution who shall have been authorised by the Chancellor to grant certificates. A fee of one guinea shall be paid by the candidate to the teacher for conducting the practical examination, unless the candidate be attending the lectures of such teacher.
(3.) Chemistry (Two papers).—
The chemical relations of cohesion, heat, light, and electricity; the general principles of chemical combination, notation, and nomenclature; the description and classification of the more important elements and compounds, and of organic bodies; qualitative analysis and calculations of chemical problems; and the description of the leading chemical theories.
Note.—The division of this subject into two papers will be left to the discretion of the Examiner.
A candidate in chemistry will be required, on presenting himself for examination, to furnish to the Supervisor a certificate from a teacher of the subject that he lias passed a practical examination in chemistry.
The certificate must be given by a teacher in an affiliated institution who shall have been authorised by the Chancellor to grant certificates. A fee of one guinea shall be paid by the candidate to the teacher for conducting the practical examination, unless the candidate be attending the lectures of such teacher.
(4) Natural Science (Two Papers).—
( a) General Biology.—1. General structure and physiology of animal and vegetable cells. 2. General structure of the following animal and vegetable tissues: Animal: Blood, epithelium, epidermis, con- nective tissue, cartilage, bone, muscle, nerve. Vegetable: Epidermis, fundamental tissue, fibro-vascular tissue. 3. Arrangement of tissues into organs and systems of organs in plants and animals. 4. Physiology of nutrition, circulation, respiration, and excretion in plants and animals. 5. Elementary physiology of muscle and nerve, 6. General phenomena of reproduction, asexual and sexual, in plants and animals. 7. The chief stages in the development of the egg-cell in plants and animals. 8. Significance of the terms—fauna, flora, range of species, barriers, modes of dispersal. 9. Principles of classification. 10. Origin of species: Heredity and variation, struggle for existence, use and disuse, degeneration, rudimentary organs, mimicry and protective colouring, natural selection, production of varieties, connection between ontogeny and phylogeny. 11. Biogenesis and Abiogenesis.
Practical work: The miscroscopical examination of Saccharomyces, Pleurococcus or some unicellular Alga, Bacterium and Amoeba; the anatomy and histology of a flowering plant; the microscopical examination of the tissues enumerated in 2 above.
( b) One of the following.—
(I.) Botany.—1. The general morphology of the cells, tissues, and organs of plants. 2. The principal characters of the classes of plants and of the following natural orders of flowering plants: Grammes Cyperaceæ, Aroideæ, Liliaceæ, Irideæ, Orchideæ, Sahcineæ, Labiatæ, Scrophularineæ, Solanaceæ Primulaceæ, Ericaceæ, Campanulaceæ, Compositæ Umbelliferæ, Myrtaceæ, Rosaceæ, Leguminosæ Geraniaceæ, Caryophylleæ, Pittosporeæ, Cruciferæ Violarieæ, Ranunculaceæ. 3. The structure (in eluding histology) and life-history of the following types: Pleurococcus, Spirogyra, a Diatom, Closterium, Hormosira or any fucoid, Vaucheria, Vol- vox, Ceramium or any red sea-weed, Nitella or Chara, Bacterium, Saceharomyces, Mucor, Penicillium, Saprolegnia. Peziza. Sticta or any lichen, Agaricus, Fun aria or any moss, Marchantia or Lunularia, Pteris or any fern. Azolla, Selaginella. Pinus or Thuja, Lilium or Hyacintbus, Vicia. 4. The outlines of vegetable physiology. Modifications of flowers to insure fertilization, and of fruits to insure dispersal. 6. The main facts of the distribution of plants in space and time. The chief characters of the phyto-geographical regions. Order of appearance in the time of the classes of plants.
( a) | The dissection and microscopical examination of the types enumerated under 3. |
( b) | The dissection and description of typical plants belonging to any of the natural orders enumerated under 2. |
(II.) Zoology—1. The principal characters of the chief classes and orders of animals. 2. The structure and life-history of the following types:—Amoeba, Paramecium, or Vorticella, or any ciliate infusorian, Hydra or any hydroid polyp, Actinia or Alcyonium, Asterina, Earthworm, Paranephrops or Palinurns, Blatta or Periplaneta or Bacillus, Mytilus or Mesodesma or Chione or Unio, Helix or Limax or Arion, Boltenia or any simple Ascidian, Agonostoma or Lotella or Pagrus or any Teleost, Columba, Lepus. 3. The elements of comparative embryology. The main facts of the distribution of the vertebrata in space; the animals most characteristic of the zoo-geographical regions; the order of appearance in time of the classes of animals. 5. The definition and significance of the following terms: Parasitism, Commensalism, Symbiosis, Parthenogenesis. Alternation of generations, Metamorphosis, Polymorphism.
Practical work: The dissection and microscopical examination of the types enumerated under 2.
(III.) Geology:—
Physical Geology.—The texture and composition of the principal rocks, and the characters of rock-forming minerals. The origin and classification of rocks; metamorphism and decomposition of rocks. The physical structure of rock masses, and their position" in the earth-crust. Movements of surface of the earth. Chronological classification of rocks. Origin of the surface features of the earth.
Palæontology.—The structure and chronological distribution of the classes of plants and animals found in a fossil state. The characteristic fossils of the three geological eras. The generalizations of patæontology.
( a) | Selected portions ( 1) of the works of one prose and one verse author; translation of simple unseen passages from Latin into English. |
( b) | An easy passage or passages for translation from English into Latin prose; questions on grammar. |
( a) | Selected portions ( 2) of the works of one prose and one verse author; translation of simple unseen passages from Greek into English. |
( b) | An easy passage or passages for translation from English into Greek prose; questions on grammar. |
( a) | The origin, history, and structure of the English language, and selected portions ( 3) of one or more authors. |
( b) | An account of one period( 3) of literature, and a short essay on some subject arising out of the works selected under ( a). |
1 1886 Virgil—Œneid, Books XI. and XII.; Livy, Books I. and II.
1887 Cicero—Pro Clueutio; Virgil—-æneid, Book VI.
2 1886. Euripides Hecuba and Medea; Xenophon—Cyrowœdia, Books I. and II.
1887 Plato, Apology and Krito; Homer, Iliad, Book XVI.
3 1886. Shakespeare—King Lear, The Tempest. George Eliot—Romola. Period—The Commonwealth.
1887 Burke—Reflections on the French Revolution; Macaulay—Essays on Bacon and Horace Walpole; Shakespeare-Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet.
(8) Modern Languages and Literature (Two papers).— French, or German, or Italian, at the option of the candidate.
( a) | Passages for translation, from and into English and the language chosen. |
( b) | Questions on grammar and composition. Questions on a period ( 1) of the literature of the language. Questions on selected authors ( 1). |
( a) | Psychology.—Outlines of the physiology of the nervous system; instinct; the senses and the intellect; abstraction; perception. Ethics.—The psychology of the will; the ethical standard; the moral faculty; the hedonist, intuitionalist, and utilitarian method. |
( b) | Logic.—Deductive and inductive logic. |
III. No candidate shall be admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Science unless he shall have passed in six of the above subjects of examination, of which four must be Mathematics, Physical Science, Chemistry, and Natural Science.
IV. The scope of the examination in all the subjects shall be the same as that prescribed for candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
V. The examination for the degree of Bachelor of Science may be passed in two sections; the first consisting of either three or four subjects. One section may be taken at the end of the second or any subsequent year, and the other at the end of the third or any subsequent year; or, at the option of the candidate, all six subjects may be taken at the end of the third or any subsequent year.
1 1886. French. Bossuet—Oraisons Funèbres. Quinault—Les Rivales, La Mort de Cyrus, Agrippa. Period—The Seventeenth Century.
German.—Freiligrath—Gedichte. Ehers—Die Geschwister. Period—The Seventeenth Century.
1887. French.—Barthelemy, Voyage dn Jenne Anacharsis en Grèce; Molière—Le Misanthrope, Les Femraes Savantes.
German.—Goethe—Egraont: Wilhelm Mueller-Ansgewählte Gedichte. Period of Goethe and Schiller.
VII. The fee for each examination for the degree of Bachelor of Science shall be one guinea.