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PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
be indicated from year to year. Half of the total marks in each subject 
will be devoted to the special studies:— 
1. Physics. —Pouillet, Elements de Physique et de Meteorologie. 
Lloyd, Elementary Treatise on the Wave-Theory of Light. 
2. Chemistry and Mineralogy. —Begnault, Cours de Chimie. Dana, 
System of Mineralogy. Bose, Elements de Crystallographie (traduit de 
l’Allemand par M. Victor Begnault). 
3. Geology. —Lyell, Manual of Elementary Geology. D’Orbigny, 
Cours Elementaire de Paleontologie et de Geologie Stratigraphique 
(Partie Troisieme). 
4. Zoology. —Dallas, Natural History of the Animal Kingdom. 
Woodward, Manual of the Mollusca. 
5. Botany. —Henfrey, Elementary Course of Botany, Structural, 
Physiological, and Systematic. 
SPECIAL STUDIES FOR 1858. 
Physics. —Meteorology, especially that of Ireland, as illustrated by 
Dr. Lloyd’s Beport to the Boyal Irish Academy. 
Organic Chemistry.— The following parts of Miller’s Elements of 
Chemistry, vol. iii.:—Chaps, i., ii., in. Chap, iv., sect, i., and sect. ii. 
from paragraph 1059 to paragraph 1064. Chap, v., sect. i. Chap, vn., 
sect, i., from paragraph 1203 to paragraph 1216. Chap, ix., from pa¬ 
ragraph 1317 to paragraph 1329. Chap, x., sects, i. andii. Chap, xiv., 
sects, i., ii., and iii. 
Geology.— Theories of Cleavage, Joints, Foliation, and Metamor¬ 
phism of Bocks. The Palaeozoic Crustaceans. 
Zoology.— British Testaceous Mollusca; with especial reference to 
the development and anatomy of the types of the following Genera :— 
Anomia ; Purpura ; Chiton; Helix; Terebratula ; Akera. 
One-fifth of the special marks will be reserved for collections of British 
Testaceous Mollusca, collected and named by the Candidate during the 
preceding year. 
Botany. —In Systematic Botany the Examination will be confined 
to the following Orders ; which the Candidate will be required to illus¬ 
trate by reference to the commoner native plants belonging to each:— 
Ranunculacese, 
Papaveraceae, 
Cruciferae, 
Caryophylleae, 
Geraniaceae, . 
Rosaceae, 
Composites, . 
Rubiaceee, . 
Boragineee, . 
Labiates, 
Scrophylarineae, 
Polygoneee, . 
Euphorbiaceas, 
1. Characteristics of Order. Its struc¬ 
ture and properties. 
2. British Genera and Species. 
8. Specimens will be produced at the 
Examination, which are to be cor- 
> rectly named and classed by the 
Candidate. 
4. The Candidate will have to give a 
written description of one or two 
selected plants, to test his fami- 
ritv -with botanical terms. 
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