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Physiology and the Structure of the Body. — For Civil Service Senior (New Regulations). Time allowed: 3 hours. [All answers should be illustrated, when possible, by diagrams.] 1. Describe a typical animal cell and its more important modifications. 2. Name the chief muscles which are used in moving the arm and the fingers, and describe their action. 3. What is the lymphatic system, and what are its functions? 4. Draw a diagram showing the structure of the eye. What are the functions of the various parts ? 5. Describe the minute structure of the kidneys. Describe their functions. 6. What are the chief differences between animals and plants ? 7. State what you know about the structure of the brain of some mammal. 8. Describe the structure and functions of the vocal organ in some mammal.

Geology. — For Civil Service Senior (New Regulations). Time allowed: 3 hours. 1. Give the chemical and physical characters of the following minerals : quartz, orthoclase, olivine, and calcite. 2. Name the principal ores of copper, lead, zinc, and iron, and state the chemical composition of each. 3. Explain the difference between the strike and the outcrop of a rock, and give examples in which they coincide, and in which they differ. 4. Describe the process of subaerial denudation and its effects. 5. Name the different varieties of calcareous rocks, and explain how they have been formed. 6. Explain the different theories of the growth of coral reefs and atolls. 7. Draw diagrams of anticlinal, monoclinal, and isoclinal curves, and also of a normal inclined fault. 8. How are the relative ages of sedimentary rocks ascertained ? 9. Give an account of the Dinornithidae.

Shorthand. — -For Civil Service Junior. Time allowed : 3 hours. Instructions to Supervisors. 1. Inform candidates before the time for taking this subject that they may use pen or pencil as they please for taking notes, which should be written on ruled paper, but that they must transcribe those notes into longhand with pen and ink. 2. Inform candidates that when once you have begun to dictato you cannot stop until the passage is finished. 3. Dictate the passage at the rate of 50 words a minute. N.B.—lt will be well to practise reading these aloud some time beforehand, looking at a watch or clock, so as to accustom yourself to reading at the exact rate indicated. The matter to be read is marked off into sections, each of which is to occupy a minute. The Supervisor will perhaps find it advisable to mark it off into smaller sections, each containing the number of words to be read in fifteen seconds, and to read one section in every quarter of a minute. As the candidates hear the passage read only once, the reader's articulation ought to be very clear, and the candidates ought to be so placed as to be able to hear well. 4. Inform candidates that rapidity in transcribing notes into longhand is essential, and note carefully on the transcribed copy the exact time taken in the transcription of the passage. 5. Inform them also that the clearness and accuracy of the shorthand notes (which must in every oase be sent in attached to the transcript) will be taken account of by the examiner; and that they must not alter the shorthand notes after the dictation is finished. At the rate of 50 words a minute. Takes 10 minutes. I think I had better commence by answering, as far as I am able, the question which the noble Earl asked me with regard to the present state of negotiations at Pekin. lam glad to 1 say that since I last addressed your Lordships on this subject, and particularly of | late, there has been, apparently, rapid progress in these negotiations, which I think I am justified in regarding with satisfaction. Certainly for a considerable time we seemed to be confronted with something very like a deadlock, and I have no doubt that, if anyone were to ask the 2 Bepresentatives of | the Powers at Pekin what the deadlock was due to, they would be apt to reply that it was attributable to the persistence with which the British Eepresentative pressed the demands which he had been instructed to prefer by his Government. While we 3 were perfectly ready to meet the other | Powers half-way upon matters of comparatively secondary importance, there were some poiuts, particularly concerning those commercial interests of which the noble Earl spoke, upon which it was not desirable for us to make any 4 concessions. My Lords, there were two points in particular of which this may be said. | In the first place, we were not prepared to allow the credit of this country to be used for the purpose of securing debts due to other Powers —debts in the compilation of which we had no 5 voice and no responsibility. The other point was this :we were not prepared | to be a party to any arrangement under which the commerce of this country would be taxed beyond the limits at present laid down by our Treaty rights for the purpose of providing the revenues 6 necessary for the service of these indemnities. On these two points it was impossible for | us to give way. If we had given way we should, I think, have been in the position—if I may use a homely simile —of that proverbial dog who was propitiated by biting off his own tail, 7 only that we should have given only a very small morsel of | the tip of the tail, whereas the more substantial portion of that tail would have been otherwise distributed. Our position was this : We were not prepared to agree to the further increase of the interior Customs duties,