and signed by the said Chancellor, in which the particulars so declared shall be stated.

PROVIDED ALWAYS, That all By-laws and Regulations made from time to time touching the examinations of Candidates and granting of Degrees, shall be submitted for the consideration of one of our Principal Secretaries of State, to be approved of by him.

AND LASTLY, WE do hereby, for Us, our Heirs, and Successors, grant and declare, That these our Letters Patent, or the enrolment or exemplification thereof, shall be in and by all things valid and effectual in Law according to the true intent and meaning of the same, and shall be construed and adjudged in the most favourable and beneficial sense for the best advantage of the said University, as well in all our Courts as elsewhere, notwithstanding any nonrecital, misrecital, uncertainty, or imperfection in these our Letters Patent.

IN WITNESS whereof WE have caused these our Letters to be made Patent.

WITNESS Ourself, at our Palace of Westminster, this fifth day of December, in the First Year of our Reign.

BY WRIT OF PRIVY SEAL,

EDMUNDS.

REGULATIONS.

ARTS.

MATRICULATION.

THE MATRICULATION Examination shall take place once a year, and commence on the first Monday in July.

No Candidate shall be admitted to the Matriculation Examination unless he have produced a Certificate showing that he has completed his Sixteenth year.

This Certificate shall be transmitted to the Registrar at least fourteen days before the Examination begins. A Fee of Two Pounds shall be paid at Matriculation. No Candidate shall be admitted to the Examination unless he have previously paid this Fee to the Registrar; and if he fail to pass the Examination, the Fee shall be returned to him.

The Examination shall be conducted by means of Printed Papers; but the Examiners shall not be precluded from putting any vivá voce questions upon the written answers of the Candidates, when they appear to require explanation.

Candidates for the Matriculation Examination shall be examined in the following subjects:

MATHEMATICS.

ARITHMETIC AND ALGEBRA.

The ordinary rules of Arithmetic.
Vulgar and Decimal Fractions.

Extraction of the Square Root.

Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division of Alge

braical Quantities.

Proportion.

Arithmetical and Geometrical Progression.

Simple Equations.

GEOMETRY.

The First Book of Euclid.

MECHANICS.

NATURAL PHILOSOPHY*.

Explain the Composition and Resolution of Statical Forces.
Describe the Simple Machines (Mechanical Powers), and
state the Ratio of the Power to the Weight in each.
Define the Centre of Gravity.

Give the General Laws of Motion, and describe the chief
experiments by which they may be illustrated.

State the Law of the Motion of Falling Bodies.

HYDROSTATICS, HYDRAULICS, AND PNEUMATICS.

Explain the Pressure of Liquids and Gases, its equal diffusion, and variation with the depth.

Define Specific Gravity, and show how the specific gravity of bodies may be ascertained.

Describe and explain the Barometer, the Siphon, the Common Pump and Forcing-Pump, and the Air-Pump.

ACOUSTICS.

Describe the nature of Sound.

OPTICS.

State the Laws of Reflection and Refraction.

Explain the formation of Images by Simple Lenses.

CHEMISTRY.

The Atmosphere. Its general nature and condition; its
component parts. Oxygen and Nitrogen; their proper-
ties. Water and Carbonic acid. Proportions of these
substances in the air.

Chlorine and Iodine, as compared with Oxygen.
Water. Its general relation to the atmosphere and earth;
its natural states and relative purity. Sea-water, river-
water, spring-water, rain-water. Pure water: effects of
heat and cold on it; its compound nature; its elements.
Hydrogen. Its nature and proportion in water; its pres-
ence in most ordinary fuels; its product when burnt.
Sulphur, Phosphorus and Carbon generally.

* A popular knowledge only of these subjects in Natural Philosophy will be required, such as may be attained by attending a Course of Experimental Lectures.

Nitric acid, Sulphuric acid, Carbonic acid; their elements.
Hydrochloric or Muriatic acid.

Alkalies, Earths, Oxides generally.

Salts. Their nature generally; Sulphates, Nitrates, Car

bonates.

Metals generally. Iron, Copper, Lead, Tin, Zinc, Gold,
Silver, Platinum, Mercury.

Powers of Matter. Aggregation, crystallization, chemical
affinity, definite equivalents.

Combustion. Flame; nature of ordinary fuel; chief results of combustion, i.e. the bodies produced.

Heat : natural and artificial sources; its effects. Expansion ; solids, liquids, gases. Thermometer; conduction ; radiation; capacity; change of form; liquefaction; steam. The chief elements of vegetable bodies; of animal bodies.

CLASSICS.

THE GREEK AND LATIN LAnguages.

One Greek and one Latin subject, to be selected one year and a half previously by the Senate from the works of the under-mentioned authors * :

Homer ......One Book.

Xenophon ...One Book.

Virgil........One Book of the Georgics, or the Sixth Book of the Æneid.

Horace .. ...One Book of the Odes.

Sallust ..The Conspiracy of Catiline, or the War with

......

Jugurtha.

Cæsar .......The Civil War, or the Fifth and Sixth Books of the Gallic War.

Livy .One Book.

Cicero .The treatises De Senectute and De Amicitiâ; or two of the shorter, or one of the longer Orations.

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

The Grammatical Structure of the Language.

Proficiency in composition will be judged of by the style of answers generally.

* For the Classical Subjects for 1846 and 1847 see page 17.

OUTLINES OF HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY.

History of England to the end of the Seventeenth century. The papers in Classics shall contain questions in History and Geography.

Candidates shall not be approved by the Examiners unless they show a competent knowledge in

1. Classics*;

2. Mathematics;

3. Either Natural Philosophy or Chemistry.

In the first week of examination the Examinations shall be conducted in the following order:

Morning, 10 to 1.

Monday ......Mathematics.

Tuesday ................Greek Classic and History.
Wednesday...Mathematics.

Thursday.....Roman Classic and History.

Afternoon, 3 to 6.

Monday......English History.

Tuesday......Chemistry.

Wednesday...Natural Philosophy.

Thursday.....The English Language.

In the following week, on Tuesday Morning at Nine o'clock, the Examiners shall arrange in Two Divisions, each in alphabetical order, such of the Candidates as have passed.

EXAMINATION FOR HONOURS.

Any Candidate who has passed may be examined for Honours in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Classics, Chemistry and Natural History.

Candidates for Honours in MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY shall be examined in the following subjects:

* Including the English Language, History and Geography.