SCIENTIFIC COURSE.

1st year.—Latin, Mathematics, Natural Science.

2nd year.—Latin, Mathematics, Natural Science, Mental 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 Philosophy 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 understood 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 system; books recommended—Carpenter’s physiology; lectures 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 ethical theories; books recommended—Stewart’s Outlines and Bain’s mental and moral science. 4. Political Economy; 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, dynamics, hydrostatics, and pneumatics, with the solution of problems not requiring the differential or integral calculus. 2. Heat and light as far as explained in the class.

Chemistry and Mineralogy.—

1. Chemistry:—The principles 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 geography; dynamical geology: the nature and operations of geological agents, structural geology: rock-masses, their structure and relations, joints, cleavage, metamorphism, faults, unconformability; stratigraphical geology: structural characters of successive geological periods; palaeontological geology: characters and distribution of the more important organic remains. Mineralogy: physical 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: portions from authors not included in the examination for the B.A. degree. Additional subjects in mathematics: elements of differential and integral calculus. Natural philosophy: electricity and magnetism, as far as explained in the class. Astronomy as in Herschel’s Outlines.

Mental and moral science and natural science: The examination more extended than for the B.A. degree.

Intending students and persons desirous of obtaining further information are requested to communicate with

A. LIVINGSTON,
Secretary.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 10, Feb. 20, 1873.)

APPOINTMENT OF MEMBER OF CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH, OTAGO.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 19th February, 1873.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Professor McGregor,
of the Otago University, to be a Member of the Central Board of Health in Otago, in the room of Dr Burns, resigned.

G. M. WATERHOUSE.

REGISTRAR OF MARRIAGES, AND OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES, APPOINTED.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 19th February, 1873.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Frederick George O’Dell, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of Hyde, as the same is defined in Proclamation of 11th day of January, and published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 2, of 12th January, 1871.

G. M. WATERHOUSE.

INSPECTOR OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES APPOINTED.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 17th February, 1873.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the following person to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures, under “The Weights and Measures Act 1868,” for the District of the Province of Otago set opposite his name, in the room of J. W. Chapman, resigned:—

Patrick Finnegan Fleming—Southland.

G. M. WATERHOUSE.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 11, Feb. 27, 1873.)

REGISTRAR OF MARRIAGES, AND OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES APPOINTED.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th February, 1873.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Arthur Chillias Henderson, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of Invercargill, as the same is defined in Proclamation of 16th July, and published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 31, of 22nd July, 1863, in the place of H. McCulloch, Esq., resigned.

G. M. WATERHOUSE.

EMIGRATION OFFICERS UNDER “THE PASSENGERS ACT 1855” APPOINTED.

Lands and Immigration Office,
Wellington, 17th February, 1873.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned persons to be Emigration Officers, under “The Passengers Act 1855:” —

Daniel Pollen, Esq., Auckland.
William King Hulke, Esq., New Plymouth.
Arthur William Follett Halcombe, Esq., Wellington.
George Thomas Fannin, Esq., Napier.
Alfred George Beetham, Esq., Nelson.
John Baillie, Esq., Picton.
John Edwin March, Esq., Lyttelton.
John Samuel Browning, Esq., Hokitika.
James Wylde, Esq., Greymouth.
Frederick LeCren, Esq., Timaru.
John Locke, Esq., Oamaru.
Colin Allan, Esq., Port Chalmers.
Thorpe Talbot Smith, Esq., Riverton.
Walter Henry Pearson, Esq., Bluff.

G. MAURICE O’RORKE.