SUBJECTS FOR THE LIMITED COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION HELD BY THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONERS. 7. Physics, Elementary Properties of Electricity, Magnetism, Heat, Light and Sound, Candidates must pass to the satisfaction of the Civil Service Commissioners in the subjects mentioned above. 300 (N.B.-This subject may not be taken up by those Elementary Chemistry, Higher Chemistry, who offer Higher Chemistry). 300 600 400 400 English History, 500 Animal Physiology, Greek History (Ancient, including Constitution), General Modern History (period to be selected by Can- Logic and Mental Philosophy (Ancient and Modern), 500 400 500 Candidates are at liberty to name any or all of those branches of knowledge. All Candidates must pass to the satisfaction of the Civil Service Commissioners in English Language and Literature. The marks assigned to Candidates in each branch, except in Mathematics and English Composition, will be subject to such deduction as the Civil Service Commissioners may deem necessary, in order to secure that "a Candidate be allowed no credit at all for taking up a subject in which he is a mere smatterer." J. C. TAYLOR, OFFICE OF NATIONAL EDUCATION, VII.-COUNTY SURVEYORSHIPS. Regulations (framed in pursuance of the Acts 7th and 8th Victoria, cap. 106, and 25th and 26th Victoria, cap. 106) for Examinations for County Surveyorships or for District Surveyorships in Ireland. I. The Examination consists of two parts, and will be in the following subjects, viz. : PART I. MATHEMATICS-including Geometry, Trigonometry, Algebra, GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY, No Candidate will be eligible who does not show some pro- PART II. Maximum of Marks. } 100 100 100 40 Strength and other Properties of Materials, and the Calculation} 100 (A.) RAILWAY AND CANAL ENGINEERING, (B.) MARINE ENGINEERING Including Harbour, Dock, Sea, and Reclamation Works, 140 140 (C.) HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING--Including Water Supply, Sew-} 140 age, and Irrigation, (D.) COUNTY WORKS-Including Architecture, Roads, Drain-} age, and River Works, 140 1000 Each of the groups lettered A, B, C, D, to include Designs, Estimates, Specifications, and the mechanical contrivances connected with it; and Candidates will be required to show that they have been engaged in the practice of their profession in a responsible position, in charge of important works, for not less than four years, one of which, at least, shall have been spent in Ireland. II. No Candidate will be eligible whose age on the first day of the Examination is less than 26 or more than 40. An Examination will be held in Dublin under the foregoing Regulations in November and December next. Application must be sent in before the 11th November, 1896. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, 16th October, 1896. VIII.-MEDICAL COMMISSIONS IN THE ARMY, NAVY, AND INDIAN SERVICES. Limits of Age, 21-28 at date of Examination. Candidates, who must be registered as qualified to practise Medicine and Surgery, will be examined in the following compulsory subjects, and the highest marks attainable will be distributed as follows: (a) Surgery, (b) Medicine, including therapeutics, and diseases. Marks. 1200 1200 (c) Anatomy and physiology, 600 (d) Chemistry and pharmacy, and a practical knowledge of drugs, . 600 A candidate may not present himself for exami- 200 200 300 300 300 300 The N.B.-The Examination in Medicine and Surgery will be in part practical, and will include operations on the dead body, the application of Surgical apparatus, and the examination of Medical and Surgical patients at the bedside. Examination in Chemistry will be limited to the elements of the science, and to its application to Medicine, Pharmacy, and Practical Hygiene; and the Examination in Materia Medica will include a knowledge of the Physiological actions and Therapeutical uses of drugs. * Candidates for India may add Hindustani (200 marks.) No Candidate shall be considered eligible who shall not have obtained at least one-third of the maximum marks in each of the above compulsory subjects. For the Army, and India, one-half of the aggregate of marks for all the compulsory subjects must be obtained, as well as a minimum of onethird in each compulsory subject. A number less than one-third of the marks obtainable in each of these voluntary subjects will not be allowed to count in favour of the Candidate who has qualified in the compulsory subjects. The knowledge of Modern Languages being considered of great importance, all intending competitors are urged to qualify in French and German. The Natural Sciences will include Biology, Physics, and Physical Geography. Candidates will be examined in all, or any, of these sciences. Candidates who qualify in the compulsory subjects will be allowed to count marks in those of the three sciences only in which they obtain one-third of the maximum marks for each. N.B.-The Examination in Biology will include the general principles of the science; structure and life-histories of the chief animal and vegetable parasites; bacteria and their relation to disease; distinctive characters of the important groups of animals, with a special knowledge of the vertebrata; the elements of embryology; the general morphology and physiology of flowering plants; diagnosis of the chief British natural orders; medicinal plants. The Examination in Physics will be limited to general principles of mechanics, acoustics, optics, heat, magnetism and electricity, such as:-the properties of solids, liquids, and gases; conservation of energy, specific gravity, propagation and reflection of sound and light, temperature, specific and latent heat, thermometers, conduction of heat, properties of mirrors and lenses, chromatic dispersion of light, chief forms of batteries; Faradaic, galvanic, and frictional electricity; general properties of magnets. The Examination in Physical Geography will be limited to general principles, such as the relations of the earth to the rest of the solar system, movements of the earth, nature of the earth's crust, and the chief kinds of rocks, general configuration of land and water, mountain ranges, plains, lakes, rivers, islands, glaciers, and icebergs, the ocean |