not exceeding 2s. 6d. on any Student, for any breach of discipline in the Library, which they do not consider of sufficient importance to bring under the notice of the Council.

LIBRARY REGULATIONS.

The Library is open from the commencement of the Session to the 1st of March, between the hours of 10 A.M. and 4 P.M., and from the 1st of March to the 1st of July, between the hours of 10 A.M. and 5 P.M., except (1) on College holidays; (2) for a period of five days in the Christmas and Easter recesses respectively.

The Library is closed during the month of July, except for one hour each week, when the Librarian attends to issue books. From the 1st of August to the commencement of the College Session the Library is open between the hours of 11 A.M. and 3 P.M.

No Student is admitted to the Library without subscribing the following declaration :—

We the undersigned do hereby promise to the President and Council of the Queen's College, Galway, that we will not mark, turn down the leaves of, or write on paper placed upon, or in any way whatsoever soil, deface, injure, or remove, without permission, any book or document in the Library of said College. We also promise that we will not injure the Library furniture; that we will faithfully observe all the rules made for the regulation of the Library, and that we will acquaint the College Authorities with any serious instance of violation of the above rules which may come under our notice.

No Student can borrow books from the Library until he has deposited the sum of £1 with the Bursar.

No Student can have more than two volumes on loan from the Library at the same time.

No Student can retain a volume borrowed from the Library more than one week; but the borrower, on returning the book, may renew the loan, if the book has not been in the meantime applied for.

Any Student, on receiving at any time a notice from the Librarian, must return, within twenty-four hours, the books belonging to the Library in his possession.

Any person losing or injuring a book belonging to the Library must replace it by another copy of the same edition and of equal value, or pay such a sum of money as will enable the College to replace it.

PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY.

The College Laboratory is open daily (Saturday excepted) from 10 till 4, under the direction of the Professor and his assistant, for the reception of Students wishing to acquire a knowledge of Chemical manipulation and analysis. The fee is regulated by the time spent in the Laboratory, at the rate of £1 per month.

THE MUSEUM.

The College authorities being desirous that the Museum should contain a complete collection of the Minerals and Objects of Natural History in this Province, donations of Minerals, Fossils, Shells, Birds, or other objects of Natural History, Models of Machinery and Agricultural Implements, specimens of materials used in Manufactures or the Arts, Antiquarian Remains, and Objects of Art, will be thankfully received and acknowledged.

PROVISION FOR THEOLOGICAL STUDENTS. Graduates of the Queen's University in Ireland can obtain a Divinity Testimonium qualifying for admission into Holy Orders in the Church of England, by studying two years after taking their B.A. Degree, at St. Aidan's College, Birkenhead.

Prospectuses of the Courses pursued in St. Aidan's College may be had on application to the Registrar, Queen's College, Galway.

Graduates of the Queen's University are excused from attendance during the first of the two years over which the Theological Course of St. Bee's College, Cumberland, extends, and are admitted at once to the Second Year's Course on passing a preliminary examination in one of the Greek Gospels, the first nine chapters of Paley's Evidences, and the History of the Pentateuch.

FACULTY OF ARTS.

THE DEGREES OF B.A. AND M.A.

1.-The Degree of Bachelor in Arts.

Candidates for the Degree of B.A. in the Queen's University, must, on entering Queen's College, Galway, pass the following Matriculation Examination.

MATHEMATICS.

Arithmetic-Including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, the Rule of Three, Simple Interest, and the Extraction of the Square Root. Algebra-Including Fractions, Proportion, and the Solution of Simple Equations.

Geometry-Euclid, Books I., II.

THE GREEK LANGUAGE.

Any one of the following books which the candidate may select:

Homer-Iliad, Books I. and II.

Xenophon-Anabasis, Books I. and II.

New Testament-The Gospel of St. John.

THE LATIN LANGUAGE.

Any one of the following authors which the candidate may select:

Virgil-Eneid, Books I.-V.

Horace Odes, Book I.; Satires, Book I.

Sallust-Conspiracy of Catiline, and Jugurthine War.

Cæsar-Gallic War, Books V., VI.

Re-translation from English into Latin of portions of Cæsar.

HISTORY AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

History, Grecian and Roman, Outlines of.
Geography, Ancient and Modern, Outlines of.
Grammar, English Grammar and Composition.

Students are admitted to the University Examination for this Degree, who, after having passed the Matriculation Examination, have attended the College Lectures for at least two full Terms in each Session, have passed the prescribed College Examinations, and are recommended for promotion to the Degree by the President of the College.

The Session extends from the third Tuesday in October