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rooms, Oamaru, on Monday, the 21st day of April next,
at noon, at the upset price of 10s per acre, and subject
to the repayment of survey expenses.

UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO.

THE Third Session will be opened on 1st May, 1873.

CLASSES.

1. Classics.--Separate classes for junior and senior
   Latin and Greek. Professor : G. S. Sale, M.A.
2. Class for English language and literature. Profes-
   sor : G. S. Sale, M.A.
3. Mathematics.--I. Junior mathematics. II. Mathe-
   matics and natural philosophy. III. Mathematics
   and natural philosophy. Professor : John Shand,
   M.A.
4. Mental and Moral Science.--Classes for logic and
   psychology, moral philosophy, political economy.
   Professor: D. Macgregor, M.A., M.B.
5. Natural Science.--Classes for chemistry, mineralogy
   and geology. Professor: J. G. Black, M.A., D.Sc.
   The session will last for six months continuously, dur-
   ing the entire course of which instruction will be given
   to each class by the Professor, by means of textbooks,
   lectures, and oral and written examinations.
   Matriculation fee, £1; laboratory fee, £1.
   The fee for each class is three guineas per session.

MATRICULATION.
The matriculation examinations for 1873 will be held at
Dunedin on the 2nd and 3rd days of May.
The following are the subjects of examination,--

Latin.
Cicero--“ De Amicitia.”

Greek.
Xenophon’s Anabasis, Book I.

English.
Writing and dictation.

French or German.
Translation from French or German into English;
translation from English into French or German.

Arithmetic.
The compound rules, especially square and cubic meas-
ures; vulgar and decimal fractions; proportion; extrac-
tion of the square root.

Algebra.
Meaning of the Algebraical signs, the four elementary
rules, simple equations.

Geometry.
Euclid, Book I.

Geography.
The chief physical features and principal towns of
Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America; together
with more minute details of the geography of Great Britain
and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
Candidates will be entitled to matriculate who shall
have passed in Latin, English, and Arithmetic; and in
any two at least of the other subjects of examination.

DEGREES.

The degree of B.A. will be attainable by attendance
upon the prescribed lectures during three sessions, and
passing an examination in certain subjects, either at the
end of the third, or at the beginning of the fourth session
after matriculation; or at the beginning or end of any
subsequent session. There will be no honor examination
in connection with the B.A. degree.
The degree of M.A. will be attainable only by those
who have already taken the B.A. degree. The ordinary
M.A. degree will be attainable by attendance on the pre-
scribed lectures for at least one session after the taking
of the B.A. degree, and by passing a further examination
similar in kind to that required of candidates for the de-
gree of B.A.; such examination to be held at the end of
one year from the B.A. degree, or at the commencement
or end of any subsequent session. There will be an honor
examination in connection with the M.A. degree. No
one will be admitted to the degree of M.A., with honors,
except such as have declared their intention of entering
for honors at the time of taking the B.A. degree, or with-
in six months afterwards. Candidates for the degree of
M.A. with honors will be allowed to select one or more of
the following subjects, and will be examined in such sub-
ject or subjects only :--

1. Classics.
2. Philosophy.
3. Pure and applied mathematics.
4. Natural science.
   No candidate will be admitted to the degree of M.A.,
   with honors, after the expiration of three academical
   years, from the date of his B.A. degree, nor after the ex-
   piration of six years from the date of his matriculation.
   All candidates for the B.A. and ordinary M.A. degrees
   will be required to furnish certificates of their attendance
   at the several courses of lectures prescribed for them.
   Candidates for the B.A. degree may select one of the two
   following courses :--

LITERARY COURSE.
1st year.--Latin, Greek, Mathematics, English.
2nd year.--Latin, Mathematics, Mental Science, Natu-
ral Science.
(Greek (Moral Philosophy, ) Natural
3rd year...
Philosophy, *English (Political Economy) Philosophy.

SCIENTIFIC COURSE.
1st year.--Latin, Mathematics, Natural Science.
2nd year.--Latin, Mathematics, Natural Science, Men-
tal Science.
3rd year.--Natural Philosophy, Natural Science.
Classes marked * are taught only three days a week.
In the Scientific Course students will not be required
to attend both the English classes and the Moral Philo-
sophy class, but must take one or the other.
Though students are recommended to adhere to one or
other of the above courses, if they wish to graduate at
the end of three years, the Council desires it to be under-
stood that they are at liberty to take the prescribed
classes in any order, and to spread them over a longer
period.

SUBJECTS OF EXAMINATION FOR THE B.A. DEGREE.
Latin.--Portions from the works of two verse and two
prose authors; selections to be made from year to year
from the works of Lucretius, Virgil, Horace, Juvenal,
Cicero, Livy and Tacitus. Questions on Grammar,
History and Antiquities.
Greek.--Portions from the works of two verse and two
prose authors; selections to be made from year to year
from the works of Homer, Æschylus, Sophocles,
Euripides, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Xenophon.
Questions on Grammar, History and Antiquities.
English.--A general knowledge of the structure and
history of the English Language and of the principal
periods of English Literature, with their representative
authors. Portions from the works of the following
authors:--Chaucer, Langland, Spenser, Shakespeare,
Milton, and Dryden; selections to be made from year to
year.
Mental and Moral Science.--1. Logic--deductive
and inductive; books recommended--Bain’s Logic and
Jevons’ Logic. 2. Psychology.--Lectures on nervous sys-
tem; books recommended--Carpenter’s physiology; lec-
tures on the special senses and the intellect, including
the historical evolution of modern doctrines. 3. Ethics--
class lectures and the study of ancient and modern ethi-
cal theories; books recommended--Stewart’s outlines
and Bain’s mental and moral science. 4. Political Eco-
nomy; books recommended--Mill’s political economy.
Mathematics.--1. Plane geometry; 2. Algebra; 3.
Plane trigonometry; 4. Plane co-ordinate geometry and
conic sections.
Natural Philosophy.--1. The elements of statics, dy-
namics, hydrostatics, and pneumatics, with the solution
of problems not requiring the differential or integral cal-
culus. 2. Heat and light as far as explained in the class.
Chemistry and Mineralogy.--1. Chemistry:--The prin-
ciples of chemical combination and action; the chemistry
of the non-metallic elements, of the metals, and of organic
compounds; complex qualitative analysis; quantitative
analysis of simple salts, and of limestones, silicates, soil,
water, coal. 2. Geology and mineralogy: physical geo-
graphy; dynamical geology; the nature and operations
of geological agents; structural geology: rock-masses,
their structure and relations, joints, cleavage, metamor-
phism, faults, unconformability; stratigraphical geology:
structural characters of successive geological periods;
Palaeontological geology: characters and distribution of
the more important organic remains. Mineralogy: phys-
ical and chemical characters and composition of minerals.

SUBJECTS OF EXAMINATION FOR THE M.A. DEGREE.
Attendance on two additional classes--both literary or both
scientific. Additional subjects in Latin and Greek: por-
tions from authors not included in the examination for the