SCIENCE DEGREES IN HORTICULTURE. 1 53 
Life-history, cockroach or locust, dragon-fly, thrips, butterfly or 
moth. 
Wings, structure and function. 
Mouth-parts, structure and function. 
Classification, its meaning, the terms used, &c. ; the chief orders of 
insects. 
Life-history, egg, larva, nymph, pupa, imago. Hibernation, 
aestivation, esuriation, dependence on food and climate. 
Food, food-habit classification. 
Reproduction, parthenogenesis. 
Social insects. 
Colour, form, mimicry. 
The Orders, short account of each. Orthoptera, Thysanoptera, 
Rhynchota, Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera. 
Pests, their origin, checks, the Wave-Law. 
Pests, types — locust, grasshopper, termite, bug, scale-insect, gipsy- 
moth, surface-caterpillar, potato-moth, codling-moth, cockchafer, 
wire-worm, flea-beetle, boll-weevil, bark-beetle, crane-fly, Hessian fly, 
fruit-fly, saw-fly. 
Preventive measures. 
Remedies, insecticides, spraying, fumigation. 
Legislation, internal and on imports. 
Field work and exercises in spraying, &c. 
There will be a practical and viva-voce examination. Candidates 
will also be required to show note-books recording their work. 
B. Sc. Examination (Horticulture). 
The subjects of the Final Examination are as follows : — 
Botany. (Three papers, a practical and a viva-voce 
examination.) 
Chemistry. (Two papers, a practical and a viva-voce ex- 
amination.) 
Entomology. (One paper, a practical and a viva-voce 
examination.) 
Candidates will be further required to produce evidence of having 
attended instruction-courses on Meteorological Instruments and their 
use, Surveying and Mensuration, Garden Management (including the 
Uses and Care of Garden Implements) and Garden Economics. 
Questions will be set involving (1) the translation of passages in 
French and in German, and (2) answers with regard to the subject- 
matter thereof. 
Candidates shall not be approved by the Examiners unless they 
have shown a competent knowledge in each of the three subjects. 
The Examiners in the practical and viva-voce examinations 
shall be at liberty to ask supplementary questions on those subjects 
