2-jo MODERN FOREST 



'I. Mechanical and Natural Philosophy. The 

 elements of mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, optics, 

 heat, climate, rainfall, and the first elements of elec- 

 tricity and magnetism. 



' II. Chemistry. Inorganic. The non-metallic 

 elements and the principal metals. Organic. Ele- 

 ments only, with special reference to the chief con- 

 stituents of the vegetable and animal organism, the 

 chemical principles of the process of nutrition and 

 of respiration in plants and animals. Fermentation, 

 decay, putrefaction, destructive distillation. 



III. Botany. Characters of the principal European 

 natural orders. Ability to describe any common 

 phaenogamous plant of ordinary structure, systema- 

 tically and with accuracy, from a living specimen. 

 The elementary facts referring to the development 

 and nutrition of plants. 



'IV. Geology. Elementary portions of descrip- 

 tive geology. 



'V. Either the French or the German language. 

 Good colloquial knowledge, with the facility to read 

 and translate into English easy passages taken from 

 the works of some classical writer. 

 1 Candidates are at liberty to choose the place of study, 

 but they must, before being admitted to the second or 

 practical part of instruction, pass an examination before 

 the Civil Service Commissioners in the branches of science 

 and in one of the languages enumerated above. This 

 examination will be held in July or August 18G9, and 

 the candidates must, on the day previous to the examina- 

 tion, report themselves at India Office, and produce testi- 

 monials from the professors or masters under whom they 

 have been studying. 



' Candidates who fail to pass the examination in sciences 

 and one of the languages at the close of the first year and 

 a half, may continue their studies for another year but 

 they will not be allowed to present themselves more than 

 twice for this examination. 



