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6. State how Slavery arose in ancient Rome, and show how its seve-
rity was gradually relaxed.

7. Give a brief account of the British law with respect to Subjects and
Aliens.

8. There are four classes of Diplomatic Agents. How is their pre-
cedence determined?

9. What is meant by Constructive Fraud?

10. What is the effect of Locke King's Act?

11. The doctrine of Satisfaction may be divided into four classes?

12. Give an account of the way in which questions of the Appropria-
tion of Payments arise. What is the term which the Roman Law em-
ployed to denote such appropriation ?

MR. LECEH.

1. Write a historical note upon the Responsa Prudentum.'

2. To what source does Maine ascribe the severity of the English
Common Law with regard to married women?

3. Define 'Agnates' and 'Cognates'; and account for the rule of En-
glish Law which prohibited brothers of the half-blood from succeeding
to one another's lands.

4. Give a short account of the Brussels Conference; and state the
main principles regulating the conduct of Belligerents upon which a
general understanding was then established.

5. Explain Retorsion,' 'Embargo,' 'Reprisals,' 'Droit d'Angarie.'
Retorsion is alluded to in Magna Charta?

6. State the principles which regulate Contraband of War. What
tests are applied to articles of a doubtful character ?

7. Write a note upon the Legislation of Edward I.

8. Describe and distinguish the various sorts of Servitudes. How are
they created?

9. Give an account of the origin of Uses, noticing the analogies of
Roman Law.

10. Mention the general changes effected by the Wills Act, 1 Vict.

c. 26.

EXAMINATION FOR DEGREE OF LL.D.

THE REGIUS PROFESSOR OF LAWS.

1. Under the old regime almost the whole of the middle class resided in the towns. How does De Tocqueville account for this?

2. How is the political predominance of Paris to be accounted for? 3. What is the true view of the French Revolution?

4. State the difference between the Ealdorman and the Earl, and show how they are related.

5. What is the idea of the Mark System?

6. The earliest glimpse of the social and political life of our forefathers is derived from Caesar?

7. What were the objects of the Charters of Henry I. and Stephen?

MR. LEECH.

Write Essays upon four of the six following subjects, selecting two from each group :

A.

1. The destiny of modern Democracies is already written in the history of ancient Democracies.

2. The Allmends of Switzerland: their Juristic features and advantages.

3. The system of State proprietorship of the land, as adopted by the English in India.

B.

1. The Constitution and International position of the Ottoman Empire.

2. The limits of a Belligerent's Rights within the Territory of an Enemy.

3. The employment of Privateers in War.

PREVIOUS MEDICAL EXAMINATION.

ANATOMY.

PROFESSOR CUNNINGHAM.

1. You are required to expose the first part of the axillary artery. Describe how you would proceed with the dissection, and name the parts which it would be necessary to reflect to bring the vessel into view.

2. Detail the relations of the spleen-(a) to the abdominal wall, and (b) to the peritoneum.

3. Trace the nasal branch of the ophthalmic division of the fifth nerve throughout its entire course, and describe the various branches which it gives off.

4. Describe the muscles which are inserted into the metatarsal bone of the little toe, and give the nerve-supply of each.

5. Describe the manubrium sterni under the following heads :

(a) its position in relation to the vertebral column;

(b) the muscles which are attached to it;

(c) the blood-vessels which lie behind it.

:

DR. T. E. LITTLE.

I. Give the origin, insertion, relations, and the nervous supply of the Buccinator Muscle.

2. Euumerate the muscles, ligaments, and fascia which are attached to the Os Pubis; indicating their situations of attachment.

3. The origin, course, relations, branches, and anastomoses of the a. cervicalis profunda?

4. Describe, accurately, the complete cutaneous Nervous Supply of the Hand and Fingers, in front and behind.

5. Describe in detail all the vascular relations of the Pancreas.

PHYSIOLOGY.

DR. PURSER.

1. Enumerate the principal organic constituents of the blood, and state how they are distributed in the blood after it has undergone coagulation.

2. What are the characteristics of saliva? On what constituents of food does it act? What is its action, and how is this demonstrated?

3. What is meant by tidal air, reserve air, and residual air? Give any method by which the volume of residual air may be measured.

4. Give the chief differences between the anterior and posterior roots of the spinal nerves, and state the grounds on which is founded the belief that the anterior roots are concerned in motion, the posterior in sensation.

5. What are the principal circumstances which influence the quantity of glycogen found in the liver after death?

MATERIA MEDICA.

Ꭰ Ꭱ . WALTER SMITH.

Give the doses

1. Name the principal alkaloids found in Opium. Mention one in which a tetanising physiological action predominates. of the officinal salts of Morphia.

2. Sources of Gamboge and Copaiba? Describe the characters, uses, and administration of each.

3. Trace the principal steps, omitting chemical reactions, of the conversion of Cotton into "Collodium flexile," and mention the uses of the latter preparation.

4. In which of its preparations does mercury exist chiefly in the metallic state? Give the doses of the haloid salts of mercury.

5. Describe the characters of Griffith's mixture, Gregory's powder, and Epsom salts; and mention the dose of each.

DR. EMERSON REYNOLDS.

CHEMISTRY.

I. How is corrosive sublimate prepared? By what means are mercuric and mercurous compounds distinguished?

2. Calculate the volume of ammonia gas, at o° C. and 760 mm., that 10 grams of ammonium chloride can afford. How is the gas liberated ? 3. Explain the action of nitric acid on a solution of ferrous sulphate containing free sulphuric acid.

4. Point out the properties of free phosphorus that lead to its identification in cases of poisoning by the element.

5. By what simple means is it possible to detect the presence of an unsafe proportion of CO2 in ordinary air?

PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY.

1. Convert a small quantity of potassium carbonate completely into caustic potash, and explain the process.

2. From the materials in your compartment prepare a small quantity of ferric hydrate ready for administration in a case of arsenical poisoning.

3. Analyze the salt in Box 3, and state the evidence of its composition on which you rely.

4. The organic acid in Box 4 is to be completely identified.

5. Identify the calculus in Box 5.

6. The solution in Bottle 6 contains oxalic acid. Estimate the weight of acid present in grains per ounce.

BOTANY.

DR. E. PERCEVAL WRIGHT.

I. Where is starch to be found in plants?

2. Name the various parts of the plant used for food among the Compositæ.

3. Describe the flower and ripe fruit in Papaver Somniferum.

4. What are the chief sources of the common vegetable Oils.

5. Mention some of our native poisonous Umbelliferæ.

PHYSICS.

MR. FITZGERALD.

1. What temperatures on the Centigrade scale correspond to - 460, - 40, 0, 32, 60, 98, 212, on the Fahrenheit scale f

2. What is the volume, at o° C. and 760 mm., of a mass of gas that occupies a volume of 35.22 cc. at a temperature of 14° C. and 505 mm. ? 3. The latent heat of steam is given by the formula

Z = 1082.695 t ;

what quantity of heat is required to evaporate 3 lbs. of water at the temperature of the human body?

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