266 THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. [Jan. 



only by Queen's College and at Merton College, where a natural 

 science fellowship will be filled up during the course of the present 

 year. 



At Pembroke College, one of the two Sheppard fellows must 

 proceed to the degree of Bachelor and Doctor of Medicine in the 

 university. At the late election to this fellowship, natural science 

 was the principal subject in the examination. The number of 

 college fellowships in Oxford is at present about 400. 



2. Cambridge. 



It is important to distinguish between the university and the 

 colleges at Cambridge as at Oxford. 



There is a natural science tripos in which the university 

 examines in the whole range of natural sciences, and grants 

 honors precisely in the same manner as in classics or mathematics. 

 The university also recognizes the natural sciences as an 

 alternative subject for the ordinary degree. As the regulations 

 on this point are comparatively recent, it will be well to state 

 them here. 



A student who intends to take an ordinary degree without 

 taking honours has to pass three examinations during his course 

 of three years, — the first, or previous examination, after a year's 

 residence, in Paley, Latin, Greek, Euclid, and arithmetic, and one 

 of the gospels in greek ; the second, or general examination, 

 towards the end of his second year, in the Acts of the Apostles in 

 Greek, Latin, Greek, Latin prose composition, algebra, and 

 elementary mechanics , and the third, or special examination, at 

 the end of his third year, in one of the following five subjects : — 

 1. Theology; 2. Moral Science; 3. Law; 4. Natural Science; 

 5. Mechanism and applied Science. 



In the natural science examination, a choice is given of chemistry, 

 geology, botany, and zoology. 



There are only five colleges in Cambridge that take any notice 

 of natural science — viz., Kings, Caius, Sidney, Sussex, St. John's, 

 and Downing. At Kings, two exhibitions have been given away 

 partly for proficiency in this subject ; but there are no lectures, 

 and it is doubtful whether similar exhibitions will be given in 

 future. At Caius there is a medical lecturer and one scholarship 

 given away annually for anatomy and physiology. At Sidney 

 Sussex two scholarships annually are given away for mathematics 

 and natural science ; and a prize of £20 for scientific knowledge. 



