292 REPORT— 1897. 



Acids and alkalis, soap, soda, and cleaning. 

 Ventilation and warming more fully considered. 



The alimentary system. Foods, composition and functions. Classes 

 of foods. 



Decay and disease ; disinfectants. 



Elementary Science. 



Candidates for probation. — Simple mechanical laws in their application 

 to common life and industries. 



Candidates for engagement as Pupil-teachers. — Outlines of physiology 

 in its bearing on health and work. 



First year. — Physiography. Matter. Forms of matter. Indestructi- 

 bility of matter. Mass, volume, density, specific gravity and weight. 

 Centre of gravity. 



Force, motion, and inertia. The parallelogram of forces. Composi- 

 tion and resolution of forces. Conversion of rectilinear into circular 

 motion. 



The Mechanical powers. — Principles of the lever, the pulley, the 

 inclined plane, and the screw. 



Energy. — Heat, radiation, electricity, and chemical action as forms of 

 energy. Mechanical work. 



Second year. — Physiography. Heat and temperature. Discrimina- 

 tion between heat and temperature. Effects of heat. The measurement 

 of temperature by thermometers. Change of state caused by heat, as in 

 ice, water, and steam. 



Radiation. — Rectilinear propagation of radiation. Reflection and 

 refraction of radiation. The analysis of light by a prism, and its recom- 

 position. The colour disc. The visible spectrum. 



Third year. — Physiography. — Chemical composition of matter. Mix- 

 tures and compounds. Water : its composition proved by analysis and 

 synthesis ; its physical properties. Elementary properties of oxygen, 

 nitrogen, hydrogen, carbon, iron, and mercury : and of water, carbon di- 

 oxide, lime, silica, and the alkalis, common salt, iron oxide, and mercuric 

 oxide. 



Terrestrial Magnetism.— Properties of the lodestone and artificial 

 magnets. The earth a magnet. Primary laws of magnetic attraction 

 and repulsion. Dip. The earth's magnetic poles. 



Fourth year. — No scheme of study is provided ; but at the Queen's 

 Scholarship examination, marks will be given for success in passing one 

 of the Science subjects under the Science and Art Department. 



Isomeric NapUlialene Derivatives. — Report of the Committee, consisfinrf 

 of Professor W. A. Tilden (Chairman) and Dr. H. E. Arm- 

 strong (Secretary). 



During the past year further important evidence has been obtained bear 

 ing on the constitution of the tri-derivatives of naphthalene confirmatory 

 of the conclusions previously arrived at, and also affording proof that the 

 interaction of phosphorus pentachloride and sulphonic chlorides is in all 

 cases a trustM^orthy method of determining constitution by reference to 



