NEW ZEALAND UNIVERSITY DEGREES. 449 
XIV., XV., and XVI. of the “Transactions of the New Zealand 
Institute.” Among the more interesting are Platinum-iridium, Osmium- 
iridium, Hessite, Sapphire, Spinel-ruby, Emerald, Tridymite, Nephrite, 
and Kyanite. A curious jet-like mineral is found in veins in pliocene 
sandstone at One-tree Point, on the west side of Whangarei Harbour. 
Gold occurs in the Takaka system, and in the Maitai system where 
penetrated by plutonic rocks. It is also found with several other 
metals in the tertiary—or possibly cretaceous—andesites and propylites 
of the Thames, in the Auckland Province. Mercury is being deposited 
at present from hot springs near the Bay of Islands. Silver, copper, 
antimony, lead, and zinc have been found in sevéral places, and 
hematite occurs in abundance at Para-Para, near Nelson, in rocks 
belonging to the Takaka system, as well as in other places. 
REMARKS ON THE REGULATIONS FOR DEGREES IN 
SCLENCE, NEW ZEALAND UNIVERSITY. 
BY PROF. T. JEFFERY PARKER, B.Sc., Lonp. 
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After discussion at two successive meetings the Senate of the 
New Zealand University has added to the Statutes a Series of 
Regulations for Degrees in Science, so that students are now at 
liberty to make their choice between the B.A. and B.Sc. Degrees 
instead of being confined, as hitherto, to the former. As the Science 
regulations do not appear to me to be entirely satisfactory, I wish 
to make a detailed criticism of them, pointing out in what respects 
I conceive them to be susceptible of improvement. 
Reference to the minutes of last year’s meeting of the Senate 
shows that the first step taken in framing these Regulations was to 
consider a scheme forwarded by the Professorial Board of the 
University of Otago. According to this scheme the examination 
for B.Se. was divided into two sections: a Ist B.Sc., consisting of 
five compulsory subjects (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, General 
Biology, and French or German), and a 2nd B.Sc., consisting of 
eight groups of subjects, of which the candidate was to be at liberty 
to select one. Each group consisted of two or more allied subjects, 
such as Mathematics and Physics; Physics, Chemistry, and Minera- 
logy or Geology; Botany, Animal Morphology, and Animal Phy- 
siology ; and it was recommended that the standard in all these 
2nd B.Sc. subjects should be hardly inferior to that for B.A. Honours 
{or M.A.), while that of the lst B.Sc. subjects should be the same as 
for the Pass Examination for B.A. 
Jt is hardly necessary to remark that this scheme follows closely 
the B.Sc. examination in the University of London, except that a 
language is included in the Ist B.Sc., and that the 2nd B.Sc. subjects 
are arranged in groups, so as to oblige the student to take allied 
subjects. 
