N. Z. UNIVERSITY SCIENCE EXAMINATIONS. 139 
NEW ZEALAND UNIVERSITY SCIENCE 
EXAMINATIONS. 
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[As the University authorities do not publish the science papers 
set for B.A. Matriculation and Seniorand Junior Scholarship examin- 
ations, it has been decided to reproduce them in this Journal, as it 
is believed they will prove of use to teachers and students alike. 
—Ed.] 
B.A. PASS EXAMINATION, 188r, 
ZOoLoGy. 
Examiner: Prof. H. ALLEYNE NicHoLson, M.D. 
1. Indicate the chief methods in which animals become “‘ com- 
pound,” and define the terms “‘ zoéid”’ and “ individual.” 
-2. Give the general characters of the Tape-worms (Teniada or 
Cestoidea), and indicate the principal forms which infest man either 
in their adult or their immature condition. 
3. Describe the structure of an Ameba, and indicate.the 
methods in which locomotion, the taking in of food, and reproduc- 
tion are effected. 
4. Give the general characters of the Apteryx, mentioning the 
group of birds to which it belongs, and enumerating the other 
living types of the same order. Mention any extinct allies of the 
A pteryx which may be known to you. 
5: Describe the dental apparatus of a Viperine Snake. 
6. What are the principal characters of the Perissodactyle 
Ungulates? Mention the existing genera of Perissodactyles. 
7. To what order of the Mammalia would you reter the 
Kangaroo (Macropus)? Mention some of its more striking anat- 
omical peculiarities. 
8. Refer to its proper class and sub-kingdom an animal with 
the following characters :—Body segmented, nerve system in the 
form of a double ventral gangliated chain; heart a dorsal tube ; 
breathing organs in the form of tracheze; no wings; one pair of 
antenne; thorax and abdomen not distinct from one another ; 
each segment behind the head carrying one pair of jointed 
appendages. 
: BOTANY. 
Examiner: Prof. H. ALLEYNE NICHOLSON, M.D. 
rt, What are ‘‘ stomata,” and in what parts of a plant are they 
ordinarily developed? Describe their general structure, and point 
out what function they discharge. 
2. Describe the general structure and mode of growth of an 
endogenous stem. 
3. Describe the characters respectively of ‘‘punctated” or 
Mdiscigerous” tissue, of “pitted” tissue, and of ‘ scalariform”’ 
tissue; and indicate the special groups of plants in which the first 
and last of these are characteristically developed. 
