NATURAL SCIENCES.

Afternoon Paper.

S. P. WOODWARD, F.G.S.

1. Draw a figure of a combination of the cube and octahedron.

2. Give the names of some of the metals which crystallize in forms belonging to the cubical, and others in the rhombohedral system.

3. Describe the action of acids on silicates of lime, silicates of magnesia, and the alkaline silicates, respectively.

4. Specify the most remarkable minerals that contain Fluorine, Glucina, or Boracic Acid.

5. What is the essential difference between Augite and Hornblende?

6. What is the usual composition of lava streams, and of strata formed of mud and ashes ejected from volcanoes?

7. Explain the origin of 'rocking-stones' (logans), and of piles of granite rocks such as the 'cheese-wring' in Cornwall.

8. Give some account of the dolomitic limestones; their geological position; and the theory of their origin.

9. Mention the chief breaks in the series of British Stratified Rocks, and state the nature of the evidence that there are such breaks.

10. Describe the composition and physical properties of talcose slate and mica slate.

11. What countries besides England, possess extensive coal-formations?

12. in the South-Eastern Counties the Cretaceous strata are supposed to rest on Coal and other Paleozoic rocks; enumerate the strata which in such case are missing.

13. Draw an ideal section of three parallel mountain-ranges, of different geological ages; the difference being shown by the relative position of the strata on their flanks.

14. What is the nature of the moving force which is most obvious in volcanic eruptions?

15. To what geological formation belong the gypsum rocks of Paris; and what is the nature of the fossils obtained in them?

16. Enumerate the most important genera of fossils which disappear after the latest Paleozoic formations.

17. What is the present state of the Geological Evidence respecting the Antiquity of Man?

18. Point out the situations where the most extensive accumulations of organic matter are now in process of formation, on land, and in the sea.

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