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(4.) Applicants who have passed the medical examination and the physical test will be permitted to undergo an examination before the Civil Service Commissioners in the following subjects* (Classes I. to III.), marks being assigned as follows :—

Class I.—Obligatory Subjects.†

Marks.

1. Mathematics (lower), viz., arithmetic; algebra up to and including the binomial theorem; the theory and the use of logarithms; Euclid, Books I. to IV. and VI.; plane trigonometry up to and including the solution of triangles and mensuration .. .. 3,000
2. English composition .. .. 1,000
3. German (400 for colloquial) .. .. 2,000

In each of these subjects a candidate must obtain not less than one-third of full marks in order to qualify.

Class II.—Optional Subjects.

4. Mathematics (higher), including analytical geometry, conic sections, statics, and dynamics .. .. .. 2,000
5. French (400 for colloquial) .. .. 2,000
6. Latin .. .. .. 2,000
7. Greek .. .. .. 2,000
   ‡8. English History subsequent to the Norman Conquest. There will be set—one general paper; one paper limited to a fixed period, which will be from the year 1760 to the year 1820 (inclusive) for the examination of 1899 .. 2,000
8. Botany—viz., the elementary parts of vegetable morphology, histology, and physiology, and the principles of a natural system of classification as illustrated by the more important British natural orders. Candidates will be required to describe plants in technical language. Questions will not be set on vegetable palæontology or on the geographical distribution of plants .. .. .. 2,000
9. Chemistry (viz., the elements of inorganic chemistry) and heat .. 2,000
10. Physics. Elementary properties of electricity, magnetism, light, and sound .. 2,000
11. Physiography and geology, chiefly economic; including the recognition of the more familiar minerals and rocks, and their properties and uses .. 2,000

A candidate may take any two, but not more than two, of the optional subjects. Under “Optional Subjects” Nos. 9, 10, 11, and 12, the examination will be partly practical.

Class III.—Additional Subjects.

13. Freehand drawing .. .. .. 500
14. Geometrical drawing .. .. 300
15. Geography .. .. .. 500

Any or all of these subjects may be taken in addition to the obligatory and the two optional subjects.

(5.) The Secretary of State will nominate as probationers such competitors as attain the highest aggregate of marks (provided they obtain the minimum in the obligatory subjects, and satisfy the requisite conditions in other respects). These probationers will then enter the College, where they will be further trained for the Forest Service of India.

(6.) If the full number of competent probationers required in any year cannot be obtained from the persons so examined, the Secretary of State reserves a discretion to fill up the deficiency by selecting any other person or persons whom, after consulting the authorities of the College, he may consider properly qualified to become probationers for the Forest Service.

5. The course of study for candidates for the India Forest Service extends over about three years. For about seven terms the candidates will prosecute their studies mainly at the College, and during the period of foreign study, which will occupy the remainder of the course, they will visit, under suitable supervision, such continental forests as may be selected for the purpose. Excursions may also be made for purposes of instruction, both during term-time and during part of the vacations.

• Reprints of the papers set at previous examinations, together with tables of the marks assigned to the candidates, are published by the Civil Service Commissioners, and can be obtained through any bookseller. The price of each reprint is one shilling.

† Attention is invited to the appended Syllabus, giving further details regarding the extent and character of the examination.

‡ No special text-books are prescribed.

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6. Each annual session begins in September, and is divided into three terms, with vacations of about four weeks at Christmas, two weeks at Easter, and eight weeks in the summer.

7. A charge of £61 is made for each of the seven terms spent at the College; for the period of foreign study the charge is £150; the amounts must be paid terminally in advance to the Bank of England for the first seven terms, and the amount due for the period of foreign study must be paid before the period begins. Receivable orders, with full directions as to the mode of payment, will be forwarded from the India Office to the parents or guardians shortly before the fees fall due. A student will not be allowed to come into residence or to start for his study of foreign forests until his fee has been paid.

8. A deposit of £5 is required to be paid by each student on admission to the College as caution-money, to cover charges incurred by him for damage to books, instruments, &c., or any College bills outstanding on leaving the College. Any balance over and above such charges will be repaid. This deposit is to be paid with the fee for the first term, making the total payment on that occasion £66.

9. The foregoing payments cover all charges for tuition, board according to the College tariff, lodging, with washing up to a cost of 2s. a week, and ordinary medical attendance while in residence at the College. When students are on tour, and during the course of practical instruction, whether in Great Britain or on the Continent, the Secretary of State will defray the expenses of (1) board, lodging, and washing (the aggregate maximum expenditure under these heads being 10s. per diem), (2) travelling-expenses, and (3) fees to local forest officers, &c.

Students are required to provide their own class-books and drawing-instruments. Drawing-paper, drawing-boards, and surveying-instruments are provided by the College.

10. The prescribed course of study comprises the following subjects:—I. Auxiliary subjects: (1) geometrical drawing, (2) freehand drawing, (3) surveying, (4) forest engineering, (5) accounts, (6) German, (7) mechanics, (8) physics, (9) chemistry, (10) geology and mineralogy, (11) entomology, (12) botany, (13) drill and gymnastics. II. Forestry, theoretical and practical, in all its branches.

11. Every student is required to conform to the College rules, to exhibit due diligence in his studies throughout the course, and to give evidence of satisfactory progress in such manner as may be required, failing which, or in the event of serious misconduct, he will be liable to be removed from the College, or to be sent back from the foreign study, which may entail the loss of his appointment.

12. During the course of study the proficiency of the students will be tested by periodical examinations, and on the termination of their studies there will be a final examination. Each student may also, at the discretion of the Secretary of State for India, be required from time to time to appear before the Medical Board at the expiration of the first year of residence at the College, and should the result be unsatisfactory he cannot claim to be allowed to complete the course.

13. The subjects enumerated in paragraph 10 are grouped in certain main branches of study,* and a fixed minimum of qualification is required in each branch and in the subjects taught during the forest tours, as well as a certain minimum for all branches taken together. Students who obtain these minima will receive the College diploma in forestry.

14. Candidates who have obtained this diploma and are found to be of sound constitution and free from physical defects which would render them unsuitable for employment in the Forest Department (the final decision on which point will rest with the Secretary of State for India), will be appointed Assistant Conservators in the Forest Department of India in the order of their standing at the end of the final examination. They will be allowed before leaving the College to state their preference in respect to the provinces to which they desire to be allotted; but the distribution will be made to the several provinces according to the needs of the public service, at the discretion of the Secretary of State for India after consulting the President of the College. Officers are, however, at all times liable to be transferred from one province to another at the pleasure of the Government of India.

15. Within a month of his nomination as Assistant Conservator, each nominee must sign articles of agreement describing the terms and conditions of his appointment; he must embark for India when required to do so by the Secretary of State, and will be provided with a free passage. Failure to embark at the stated time will, in the absence of satisfactory explanation, lead to forfeiture of appointment.

16. The pay of an Assistant Conservator of Forests will begin from the date of reporting arrival in India. Probationers who acquit themselves creditably during their course at Cooper’s Hill College will begin on a salary of Rs. 350 a month. It will, however, rest with the President of the

• For details, see Royal Indian Engineering College Calendar.