NEW ZEALAND UNIVERSITY DEGREES. 451 
For Honours in Science. 
One of the following subjects :— 
1. Mathematics and Mathematical Physics. 
2. Physics. 
a. Heat. 
b. Electricity and Magnetism, or Sound and 
Light. 
3. Chemistry. 
a. Inorganic Chemistry. 
b. Organic Chemistry or Chemical Technology. 
. Botany. 
Zoology. 
. Geology, including Lithology and Paleontology. 
Human Anatomy and Animal Physiology. 
. Mental Science. 
DAUD Oe 
The scope of the examination in all the subjee‘s to be the same 
as for B.A. Honours. 
In criticising these Regulations I would first venture to offer a 
protest against the extremely arbitary use of the term “ Natural 
Science” in the publications of the Senate. The advisability of 
making a distinction between ‘‘ Natural” and “ Physical” Science is 
more than doubtful, the two terms being strictly convertible. This 
being the case, to include only Botany, Zoology, and Geology under 
Natural Science, and to exclude not only Chemistry and Physics but 
also Human Anatomy and Animal Physiology, is hardly so accurate 
a classification of the Sciences as might be expected from a learned 
body like the University Senate. 
It seems evident that the main object in the alteration of the 
original scheme of Science regulations was to reduce the B.Sc. to the 
level of the B.A., so as to make the Arts and Science courses run parallel 
from matriculation to graduation. Yor this there is very much to be 
said: it is clearly a great advantage to have the two courses 
thoroughly comparable one with the other; each representing three 
years’ steady work, in the one case mainly on literary, in the other 
mainly on scientific lines. 
When, however, one comes to a comparison of the regulations for 
the two degrees, one is forced to the conclusion that the B.Sc. is not 
necessarily one whit more scientific than the B.A., nor the B.A. more 
literary than the B.Sc. Except that General History and Political 
Economy, and Jurisprudence and Constitutional History have no 
place in the B.Sc. course, the list of subjects and the definition of 
those subjects are precisely the same for the two degrees. Conse- 
quently it is possible for a student to take either degree on the same 
list of subjects: for instance a man passing in pure and applied 
mathematics, chemistry, physics, “natural science,” Latin, and 
English, might claim either degree, or as far as one can see, both. 
The view of the Senate seems to be that an Arts Degree is one for 
which a candidate must take Latin and may take Applied Mathe- 
matics and Natural Science, and that a Science Degree is one for 
which he must take Applied Mathematics and Natural Science, and 
may take Latin. 
