cxxxviii Agricultural 'Education — Examination Papers, 1888. 
EXAMINATION IN ANATOMY AND ANIMAL 
PHYSIOLOGY. 
Maximum Number op Marks, 100. Pass Number, 50. 
Saturday/, May I2th, from 2 p.m. till i j^.m. 
1. Given that the movement of the lower jaw of the Ox in 
masticating the food differs from that of many other animals, name 
an animal from which it most differs, and state the advantages con- 
nected therewith. 
2. Describe the action of the saliva on tlie food, and name the 
principal glands which secrete the fluid, and the parts of the mouth 
where their ducts open, 
3. Name the stomach into which the food first enters in rumi- 
nating animals, and describe its function in facilitating digestion. 
State also the names and functions of the other stomachs, particu- 
larising the one in which digestion is completed. 
4. Name the chief muscles which assist in tlie inspiration and 
expiration of air in breathing, and say in wliat essential particulars 
expired air differs from inspired. 
5. Give the number, names, and relative position of the muscles 
attached to the eyeball of the Horse, naming tliose wliich in the 
several movements of tlie eyes act simultaneously and in pairs, and 
which do not. 
6. Describe the position and general structure of the kidneys, 
and name the chief difference in their size and form, comparing 
those of the Ox with the Sheep. State also the course which the 
urine takes to be expelled from the body. 
7. Give the period of utero-gestation in the several animals of 
the farm. 
8. Describe the so-called natural position of a foetus at the 
time of parturition, and say in which animal, the Mare or Cow, 
labour is the soonest completed. State also the average time it 
occupies in each of these animals. 
9. Give the names of the several membranes which envelope the 
foetus in utero, and name the difference which exists in the attach- 
ment of the outermost-placed one to the inner surface of the uterus 
in the Mare and Cow. 
