Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1874 – No. 20

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ASTRONOMY.

FIRST AND SECOND CLASS.

  1. Define and illustrate the following terms:—Superior conjunction, inferior conjunction, ascending node, descending node, opposition, parallax, quadrature, syzygies.

  2. State Kepler's laws, and Bode's law.

  3. What is the difference between the sidereal day and the mean solar day? What is the cause of the difference? Discuss the differences between the apparent solar day and the mean solar day.

  4. Name not less than six stars of the first magnitude, assign them to their proper constellations, and state roughly the time of year at which any of them are visible here, and in what part of the heavens.

  5. How are the changes of the seasons produced? Give full explanations and diagrams, and detailed statement of effects in different zones.

  6. How would you set a celestial globe to represent the aspect of the heavens at Christchurch at ten o'clock to-night? What is the sun's altitude at Christchurch at noon—(1) at the equinoxes, (2) at the summer solstice, (3) at the winter solstice? Show how you arrive at your results.

  7. Why is a transit of Venus regarded with so much interest?

Or as an alternative: Enumerate the leading principles of Spectrum Analysis, and state some recent results of spectroscopic research.

  1. Give the fullest information you possess on any one of the three following subjects:—
    (1) The physical constitution of the sun.
    (2) The physical constitution of the moon.
    (3) Double stars.

ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY.

FIRST CLASS.

  1. In what respects do animals differ from plants?

  2. Give a classified list of the primary tissues.

  3. Describe the general arrangement of the nervous system in each of the sub. kingdoms.

  4. Trace the course of the blood in its circulation in the human body. Describe the heart, and say by what forces the blood is propelled.

  5. Compare the systems of circulation in reptiles and in mammalia.

  6. Describe the respiratory apparatus in birds.

  7. Give a full description of any one of the organs of sense.

  8. Describe the powers by which a wound is healed in the higher vertebrata. Give particulars of reparation of injuries in inferior animals.



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🎓 Examination for Certificates, January 1874: Astronomy (continued from previous page)

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🎓 Examination for Certificates, January 1874: Animal Physiology

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