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9. Define the place of each of the following in English history : Schomberg, Mrs. Masham, Bishop Atterbury, Admiral Byng, Junius, Grattan, Thistlewood, Cobbett. 10. What do you know of the Mutiny Bill, Glencoe, Darien Scheme, Preston-Pans, Plassy, Convention of Cintra, the Gordon Eiots, the Catholic Emancipation Act ? Elementary Experimental Science.- — For Glass D. Time allowed: 3 hours. 1. What are the fundamental facts relating to the pressure of fluids, and how may they be proved experimentally ? 2. Describe any experiments which you would make in giving a lesson on specific gravity. 3. Mention several experiments illustrative of the elasticity of gases, arranging them in two classes, the one suitable for teaching beginners, the other adapted to the instruction of more advanced pupils. 4. Explain exactly how you would exhibit to a class (a) the reflection of sound, (b) the reflection of light, (c) the refraction of light. 5. Make a sketch of the apparatus required for the distillation on a small scale of ethyl alcohol (spirits of wine), adding any explanatory remarks which you may think necessary. 6. What experiments would you regard as essential to a proper explanation of magneto-elec-tricity, and how would you propose to make them ? 7. Give an exact description of the arrangement which you would adopt for showing the decomposition of water by the electric current. 8. Describe in detail how you would prepare and collect chlorine gas. Having obtained four jars of the gas, what experiments illustrative of the properties of chlorine would you make with them? 9. Write an abstract of a lesson on the use of soap, and give an exact account of the experiments with which you would illustrate the lesson. Elementary Science. — For Glass E. Time allowed: 3 hours. [Note. —Female candidates for E, if proficient in needlework, may substitute for this paper the paper on Domestic Economy and the Laws of Health ; but passing in Science will not exempt them from passing in Needlework also.] 1. A ball hangs from the ceiling: describe exactly what must be done to make it revolve in a circle; and show how, when it is revolving in a circle, you may, by a touch, make it move as an ordinary pendulum. State what principles may be illustrated by a hanging ball. 2. What is the gain of power, disregarding friction, in the case of a wheel and axle, the diameter of the barrel being 6in. and the length of the handle 3ft. ? Supposing that part of the barrel were 4in. and part 6in. in diameter, and the rope were wound off the 4in. part on to the 6in. part, and passed under a pulley attached to the bucket, what would be the gain in this case ? 3. Supposing that a narrow U-shaped glass tube is filled partly with water and partly with alcohol, and another similar tube is filled partly with mercury and partly with water, and that in each case the two liquids are in contact exactly at the bottom, make a sketch showing approximately the heights at which the several liquids would stand. 4. Make a sketch showing how to arrange a set of pulleys so that the gain may be 5 to 1. 5. Show by a sketch the construction of an ordinary fountain. Show also how you would illustrate the principle of the fountain by means of a tumbler of water and an indiarubber tube. 6. Draw a diagram illustrating the mode of formation of an image by a convex lens—as, for instance, the picture produced by a magic lantern. Show also how a reading-glass makes an object look larger than it really is. 7. Describe the experiments that may be made with a pair of bar-magnets, and sketch the form of the curves produced by iron-filings dusted over a card beneath which two bar-magnets are placed parallel to each other, the north ends pointing the same way. 8. Describe the effect, and give chemical equations illustrative of what happens, (1) when limestone is burnt, (2) when quicklime is placed in water, (3) when carbonic acid is passed into clear lime-water, (4) when an excess of carbonic acid is passed into lime-water. 9. State the changes that occur in the blood when it is in the external capillaries and also when it is in the lungs. Draw a diagram illustrating the circulation of the blood. 10. Give a general account of the best mode of draining a house and its surroundings. Make a sketch illustrating the plan you would adopt for connecting an indoor sink with a drain. Domestic Economy and Laws of Health. — For Class E. Time alknved: 3 hours. [Note. —This paper is for female candidates for E who are proficient in needlework, and, in consideration of this, are allowed, if they prefer it, to be examined in Domestic Economy and the Laws of Health instead of in the general subject of Elementary Science. (See the note on the Elementary Science paper.) ] 1. State the advantages of a morning bath. Under what circumstances is it disadvantageous ? 2. Describe in general terms the kinds of food suitable for invalids. 3. Name the various disinfectants and antiseptics, and state the purpose for which each is more particularly suitable. 4. Make a sketch showing the course of a blood-corpuscle in its passage from the right ventricle through the capillaries back to the right auricle. Write on the sketch the names of the chief arteries and blood-vessels through which it passes. 5. What are the changes effected in the air by respiration? What occurs when clear limewater is breathed into ? Express the changes by chemical symbols. 6. Draw a diagram representing the structure of the eye. What is the most suitable mode of lighting a room for school-children ? Draw a section to show the kind of spectacle-glass suitable for a short-sighted person, , ...-,

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