9. Give a full description, accompanied by sketches, of a steam-engine of large size and modern type, and point out the various steps by which such an engine has developed from the form adopted by James Watt. MINING. Mr. William Nicholas. 1. In what manner does Gold occur in quartz reefs, and state with what minerals it is usually asso ciated? 2. Describe how you would prospect for gold and silver and for coal. 3. Give a general description of a coal-field and of a coal-seam, and state what peculiar changes the latter is liable to, and under what system you would proceed to work coal-seams that occur close to one another. 4. Describe in detail two different methods of pumping water out of a mine. 5. Describe the modes of occurrence of Silver lodes, and state with what minerals is Silver in lodes usually associated, and in what rocks are silverbearing lodes commonly found. 6. Give an outline description of the method of laying out and working a mine situated on a deep auriferous lead. 7. Briefly describe one or more methods of boring. 8. Describe some irregular quartz-vein formations, and state in what gold-fields they occur. 9. Illustrate a faulted quartz reef, and shew in what direction you would drive in order to find the dislocated part, and explain why you would explore in that direction. NOTE. Illustrative sketches and diagrams will enhance the value of answers. METALLURGY. Mr. Kirkland. 1. Describe the metallurgical treatment of the following ores, viz. : Clay Ironstone. Galena. Cinnabar. Zinc Blende. 2. Describe and explain various typical Volumetric Processes which you have performed yourself. 3. Describe the arrangements in use at the glass-works visited by you, for the production of gaseous fuel; also for utilizing the waste heat. Enumerate the advantages of such arrangements. 4. What are the sources, and what is the mode of preparation of the metal Aluminum? CIVIL ENGINEERING. Professor Kernot. 1. Describe critically the various methods that have been adopted for making railway tunnels in soft ground. 2. Discuss fully the various joints of a queen-post roof truss in Oregon timber. 3. Design and briefly specify a bridge in colonial timber of the subjoined dimensions:Span 50 feet, Width of deck 20 feet, Flood line 5 feet below deck. Abutments assumed to be of masonry. 4. Make a detailed sketch of an engineer's lathe, and explain fully the mode of cutting screws of different pitches. 5. Write an essay on the various contrivances that have been proposed for facilitating the passage of railway vehicles round curves. 6. Discuss fully the relative advantages and disadvantages of the gauges of the railways of Victoria, New South Wales, and Tasmania. EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, FRENCH, AND ENGLISH. The Board of Examiners. 1. Write a life of Milton. 2. Give a summary of the first book of Paradise Lost. 3. Compare the styles of Pope and Dryden. 4. Give the substance of Dryden's characters of Shaftesbury and Buckingham. 5. Discuss the political and religious changes of Dryden. 6. What was Pope's attitude towards royal and noble persons? Candidates are expected to answer the questions with fulness, and in essay fashion. FRENCH. The Board of Examiners. 1. Write an Essay in French, giving an account of one of your plays and a criticism upon it. 2. Write an Essay in English on the difference between the Classical and Romantic Schools. 3. Translate L' Avare, Act III., sc. v.-" Monsieur, je ne -to the end of the scene. saurais 4. Translate or La Lyre, p. 290.-" La Veillée.” Le Misanthrope, Act II., sc. vii. SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCE. (1) GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS. The Board of Examiners. 1. Give a brief summary of the general principles upon which the geographical distribution of plants useful for food and for other economic purposes is based. |