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Class D.—Botany (Optional). Time allowed .- Three hours. 1. Mention all the kinds of underground stems that you know, and explain how they are distinguished from roots. 2. What is meant by a compound leaf, by decussate leaves, by bracts, and by connate leaves? 3. Describe the different kinds of venation found in leaves, illustrating your descriptions with diagrams. 4. Give all the characters you know which distinguish monocotyledons from dicotyledons. 5. Describe, and illustrate with diagrams, the terms " perigynous," " hypogynous," and " epigynous ;" and name examples of each. 6. Describe the flower in the following natural orders : Liliacese, Scrophularinese, Compositae, and Cruciferee. 7. Describe as many dry dehiscent fruits as you can. 8. Explain why a plant with opened leaves requires to be watered for several days after transplanting. 9. How does a plant obtain the oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, and nitrogen it requires for food? 10. How is it that mould grows in the dark, while ordinary plants require sunlight?

Class D.—Geology (Optional). Time allowed: Three hours. 1. How do you distinguish quartz, felspar, mica, augite, and hornblende from one another? 2. In what rocks is olivine found ? How do you recognise it ? 3. What are organic rocks and metamorphic rocks ? Give examples. 4. Eocks formed under the sea are now found far inland. How do you account for this ? Giy» reasons for your opinion. 5. Draw a diagram showing unconformity, or discordance, between two sets of beds, and explain what inferences may be drawn from it. 6. Describe the geological action of ice. 7. State your opinion of the origin of valleys among mountains, giving your reasons for|so thinking. 8. Write down the table of eras and periods into which geological time is divided. 9. Describe the structure of the following fossils, and state during what periods they lived : Ammonite, nummulite, trilobite, graptolite, belemnite. 10. How do geologists make out the relative ages of rocks ?

Class D.—French (Optional) Time allowed : Three hours. 1. Give the plural masculine of the following adjectives : Egal, fatal, tout, bleu, hebreu. 2. When do proper names take the sign of the plural ? 3. What three nouns are masculine in the singular and feminine in the plural ? 4. When do suppose, excepts, ci-joint, &c, remain invariable ? 5. Translate— lt is easy to see, &c. I know that book; it is very amusing. I understand what you mean ; it is quite clear. It is I who told you so. It would give me great pleasure. 6. What is the usual position of the adverb in French—(l) when the verb is in a simple tense; (2) when the verb is in a compound tense? Would it be right to say "Je I'ai hier vu'"i 7. From the following adjectives form adverbs : Doux, poli, prudent, lent, aveugle. 8. Translate— Whatever you think, keep it to yourself. Whatever your lot may be, &c. 9. When does le remain invariable before plus and moins ? 10. How are—the more the more; the less the less, &c, to be translated in such sentences as—The more you learn to-day, the less you will have to learn to-morrow ? 11. Before what words beginning with a vowel is the article not elided? 12. State the origin of the words ma mie, &c, and m'amour. 13. Translate—l have a toothache. You are hurting my arm. He has broken his leg. Wash your hands. My headaches come on in the evening. 14. Translate — What do you say? Take ivhat you like. What a beautiful flower! What! do you think I would do such a thing ? 15. Translate —You make such a noise. She is such a good woman. Such a thing is not known here. 16. Give the principal parts of the verbs plaindre, paraitre, ouvrir, dormir, battre. 17. Conjugate the imperative of ne pas s'admirer. 18. What difference in meaning is there between the following verbs when conjugated, first with etre, secondly with avoir : coyivenir, demcurcr, echapper, expirer ? 19. When is a to be used after tarder, and when is de to be used ? 20. What difference in meaning is there between j'ai Hi and je suis alii ? 21. Translate into English— D'autre part, il est possible d'acquerir et il est k desirer que nous acquerions une connaissance beaucoup plus approfondie des langues modernes que des langues mortes, et pourtant nous agissons comme si c'ctait tout le contrairo. Quoiquo les examens qui sont la pierre de touche de notre connaissance des langues modernes, soient beaucoup plus