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EXAMINATION PAPERS. 



INSTFUCTIONS. 



If tJie rules are not attended to, the paper will be cancelled. 

 You may take the Elementary, or the Advanced, or the Honours paper, but 

 you must confine yourself to one of them. 



Put the number of the question before your answer. 



The value attached to each question is shown in brackets after the question, 

 but a full and correct answer to an easy question will in all cases secure a 

 larger number of marks than an incomplete or inexact answer to a more diffi- 

 cult one. 



The Examination in this subject lasts for three hours. 



You are permitted to attempt only eight questions. 



1899. 



1. What are capillaries, and about how big are they ? What is the essential 

 characteristic of their structure ? What changes does blood undergo as it 

 passes along the capillaries of (say) a muscle, and what is the exact use of these 

 changes? (15) 



2. Describe carefully the appearance of the outside of a sheep's heart when 

 removed from the body. How can you tell which is its top and bottom, and 

 Which is its right and left side when it is placed in front of you ? (15) 



-3. What is the shape, what is the position, and what is the general structure 

 of the stomach ? Through what structure and by what means is food passed 

 from the mouth into the stomach ? What is the condition of food as it passes 

 from the stomach into the intestine? (15) 



4. What differences are there between the composition of air before and after 

 it has been breathed ? How can you prove the existence of these differences ? 

 What bad results follow from breathing the same air over and over again, and 

 to what are they due ? (15) 



5. Where does the portal vein begin, how is it placed, and where does it 

 end ? What important differences are there between the blood flowing along 

 the portal vein in an animal which is being fed and one which is starved ? (10) 



6. What is meant by " connective tissue " ? Where does it occur in the 

 body ? What is the exact use of it in each of the places in which you describe 

 it as occurring ? (10) 



7. What is the shape of the pelvis, and of what structures is it made up ? 

 How is it attached to the spinal column ? What structures or organs lie in or 

 are contained in the pelvis ? (10) 



8. What are the differences between a " food" and a " foodstuff"? What 

 are the three chief kinds of foodstuffs, and what are the essential differences 

 between them ? What substances in addition to these three foodstuffs does an 

 animal require in order to keep it alive? (10) 



