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deserved them. Professor Bentley, in referring to the successful candidates, 
said that he felt called upon to allude especially to Mr. Watts, who had carried 
off all the Sessional Prizes. He could not speak in too glowing terms of such 
a pupil, and he trusted all future students would look up to him as their model. 
It Avas especially gratifying to him to find Mr. Watts in such a distinguished 
position on the present occasion, as he had at a previous distribution of prizes 
spoken in very high terms of his acquirements, and had then predicted that 
Mr. Watts’s career would be a very distinguished one. 
The questions for the written examination were as follows :— 
1. Describe the physical and chemical characteristics of Chlorophyll. State where it is 
found, the conditions favourable to its development, and the .’changes Avhich it 
undergoes at the different seasons of the year. 
2. Define the following:—Bulb, Corm, Rhizome, Tuber, and Tubercule. Mention the 
various substances of the Materia Medica which present illustrations of them re¬ 
spectively, and name the plants which yield them, and the Natural Orders to 
which they belong. 
3. Define the following terms :—parasite, epiphyte, serrate, ligule, cupule, involucre, 
panicle, hypogynous, syngenesious, isomerous, gynandrous, and tetradynamous. 
4. What are the substances required for the support of plant-life; and in Avhat manner 
are they taken up by plants ? 
5. Describe the physical and chemical characteristics of both colchicum corm and seeds , 
and state the time of the year in which they should be collected for use. 
G. Mention the officinal plants of the British Pharmacopoeia derived from the Ranun- 
culacea:. Mention the botanical and geographical sources of podophyllum rhi¬ 
zome. , and describe its physical and chemical characteristics. 
7. Describe the physical characteristics of Croton Seeds; state their botanical and geo¬ 
graphical source, the manner in which Croton Oil is obtained, and the differences 
between East Indian Croton Oil and English Croton Oil. 
8. Give the essential characters of the following Natural Orders, and enumerate the 
officinal plants of the British Pharmacopoeia which they respectively contain:— 
Cruciferae, Umbellifene, Atropacese, Polygonaceae, Iridaceae, and Melanthaceae. 
VIVA VOCE EXAMINATION. 
Besides the above questions, the following plants Avere submitted to the several 
competitors, who were required to name them, to state the Natural Orders to 
which they respectively belonged, to mention their medical and economical pro¬ 
perties, and to describe any peculiarity they might present worthy of notice :— 
Aconitum Napellus—Delphinium Staphysagria—Hypericum calycinum—Althaea 
officinalis—Epilobium angustifolium—Ecbalium officinarum—Conium maculatum— 
Coriandrum sativum—Foeniculum dulce—iEthusa Cynapium—Artemisia Absinthium— 
Pyrethrum Parthenium—Matricaria Chamomilla—Anthemis nobilis—Inula Helenium— 
Knautia arvensis—Tanacetum vulgare—Lobelia infiata—Solanum nigrum—Atropa 
Belladonna—Datura Stramonium—Nicotiana rustica—Hyoscyamus niger—Solanum 
Dulcamara—Solanum Dulcamara, var. alba.—Borago officinalis—Marrubium vulgare— 
Origanum vulgare—Pentstemon species —Lysimachia Nummularia—Gentiana species —• 
Mercurialis annua—Lilium species —Funkia ovata—Veratrum album. 
The medal and certificates were aAvarded as follows :— 
Medal .John Watts. 
Certificate of Honour ...John Bingley. 
„ ...F. R. Pasmore. 
Certificate of Merit .Alfred R. Hall. 
„ .John M. 0. Eminson. 
,, .Peter W. Squire 
