GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY
1. HOT/ are the Igneous Rocks usually classified ?
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2. Give the constituent minerals and lithological cha- racters of the following Rocks:—(a) Granite, (ft) Trachyte, (c) Serpentine, (d) Greenstone, (e) Gneiss.
3. Describe the more general characters of nodules, their modes of formation, and lithological com- position in different formations, both igneous and aqueous. ,
4. Write down all the signs (with their explanations) used in geological maps.
5. Give in detail all the great subdivisions of the Carboniferous System of Rocks, and the reasons for and against'grouping the Marwood Sandstone and the Petherwin bods with the Upper Devonian or Lower Carboniferous.
6. What are the characters of the Periscoechinida, and to what formations are they restricted ? 7. What are the structures referred to in the terms
Homocercal, Heterocercal, and Diphycercal Ga- noids, and what is the range in time of each ? 8. Define the chief genera of Enaliosauria of the
Lias, Oolite, and Chalk.
9. What are the chief characteristics of the Dino- sauria? Define the more common genera, and give the range in time of the group.
10. Enumerate the subdivisions of the Tertiary forma- tions in due relative order, and give the more characteristic fossils of each.
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ANCIENT HISTORY.
• Professor Hearn.
1. " Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus iEmilianus Numantinus." Who was the person so called ? Explain each of the above names and the cir- cumstances in which the last three respectively were acquired.
2. In the. following passage from the " L a y s _ o f Ancient Rome "—
" Ho ! Trumpets sound a war note.
Ho ! Lictors clear the way.
The Knights will ride in all their pride Along the streets to day "—
(a) What was the day ?
(ft) What was the name of the procession ?
(c) From what other equestrian procession was it distinguished ?
(a*) What event did it celebrate ?
3. Explain the following expressions : Sedere in quatuordceem ordinibus: Ca;iite cera digni:
Homo trium literarum.
4. What were the titles by which persons who had held the great offices of State at Rome were after the expiration of their office respectively desig- nated ?
5. " I t was proposed that the year should he in- scribed in the Fasti by the names of Caius Caesar
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and Julius Caesar as Consuls." What was ti IS
year? Explain the nature of the proposal and other circumstances that led to it.
A 6./"The boon (of the Lex. Plautia Papiria) was far -' from being universally accepted." What was this law and what was its date ? Why was it unacceptable ?
7. Give some account of the public life of Pompeius Magnus before the passing of the Gabinian Law.
8. State the date of the Second Philippic, the circum- stances of its publication, and its effects.
9. Give some account of the Prretorian Guards, their origin, their political influence, and their end.
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<10. Trace the history of the Alemanni, their origin, their connection with the Roman Empire, and the countries in which they were finally settled.11. Give with the proper dates some account of each of the following persons: Didius Julianus:
Dietrich of Berne : Odoacer.
12. Trace the steps by which the ruin of Paganism was legally completed.
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HISTORY OP T H E BRITISH E M P I R E . Professor H e a r n .
Explain and comment upon the following passages in Mr. Hallam's works (Edition 1853)—
1. " T h e feudal notions of grand serjeanty pre- pared tho way for the restoration of the Royal.
Supremacy as the military tenures had im- paired i t : The wound and the remedy came from the same lance."—MIDDLE- AQES I. 181.
2. " T h i s was usually called Commendation, and appears to have been founded on two very general principles both of which the distracted state of society inculcated."—lb. 163.
3. " But if he asks what were the immediate causes of establishing this (i.e. the Feudal) polity we must refer him to three alone."—lb. 318.
4. " A l l the freehold lands of England except some of those belonging to the Church were subject (i.e. before the Conquest) to three great public burthens."—II. 292.
5. " T h e forests were, to use a word in rather an op- posite sense to the usual, an oasis of despotism in the midst of the old Common Law."—
lb. 309.
6. " T h e system of feudal policy though derived to England from a French source bore a very
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different appearance in the two countries."—
lb. 313.
7. " The town was then said to be affirmed or let in fee farm to the burgesses and their successors for ever."—III. 2 1 .
8. " These words afford a strong presumption that some early petulance or riot (i.e. in Henry V.
while Prince of Wales) has been much exag- gerated by the vulgar minds of our chroni- clers."—lb. 96.
9. " By such means a large proportion of the pea- santry before the middle of the fourteenth century had become hired .labourers instead of villeins."—lb. 177.
10. " In certain respects his (i.e. Henry VII.'s) reign.
is undoubtedly an era in our history."—CONST.
H I S T . I. 10.
11. " T h e two Statutes enacted in the first year of Elizabeth are the main links of the Anglican Church with the temporal constitution."—
lb. 170.
12. " No private man could .have recovered an acre of land without proving a better right than they (i.e. the Stuarts) could make out to the Crown of England."—lb. 289.
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