Arithmetic (Hamblin Smith)..Part I, omit chapter 13; Part II,

Proofs of all rules used in solutions
of triangles. Adaptation of the
same to logarithmic computations.
Application of rules to solution of
astronomical problems.

Variation by amplitude; longitude
by sun chronometer; practical
navigation paper; explanations of
all necessary rules and definitions.
A subject of history.
Latitude by meridian altitude from
sea horizon; longitude, error and
rate of chronometer by artificial
horizon; variation by azimuth-
compass.
Theodolite, thermometer, and ba-
rometer; construction and use of
charts on any scale.
Extracts from Livy; Arnold's Exer-
cises; Latin Primer.

All cadets are taught and exercised in rowing; the third and fourth forms only are taught the handling of boats under sail and oars.

Free-hand drawing from outside nature; perspective, with all the terms used.

Setting up rigging, staying masts,
anchor (model), rule of the road,
palm and needle; recapitulation of
all subjects taught.

Light; heat; magnetism; electricity.

NOTE C.

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PUNISHMENTS.-HER MAJESTY'S SHIP BRITANNIA.

SECOND CLASS FOR CONDUCT.

Wear a white stripe on left arm.

Turn out one hour earlier than others, and stand on middle deck.

Stand apart at Sunday morning muster.

One hour's drill every afternoon; leave stopped; march out one hour with corporal. Stand on middle deck one hour after evening prayers; sit at second-class table in mess-room at meals; not allowed soup, beer, or second course; pocket-money to be stopped.

Sit in front at church and at prayers in mess-room.

Limit of punishment.-From seven to fourteen days.

THIRD CLASS FOR CONDUCT.

Wear a white stripe on each arm.

Get up at 6 a. m. in winter and 5 a. m. in summer; at 6.30 winter and 5.30 summer, fall in and drill until prayer-time.

Stand apart from other cadets at all musters.

One-and-a-quarter hour's drill every afternoon; leave stopped; march out one hour with corporal.

Stand on middle deck half-an-hour after evening prayers.

Alternate days in cell, on bread and water; other days take their meals at cockpit mess; not allowed soup, beer, or second course.

Pocket-money to be stopped.

Sit on stool on half deck when not in cell; sit in front in church and at prayers in

(The above punishments may be inflicted by lieutenants for one day.)

4 days.

3 days.

3 days.

1 week.

1 month.

6

Confined to cricket field;

7 Extra drill one hour, leave stopped, go ashore one hour with corporal, and No. 4. 4 days.

*Extra drill of one hour is divided into exercises of ten minutes each, in the following order: Rifles, poles, clubs.

No. 5. Diet-dry bread for breakfast and tea; not allowed soup, beer, or second course.
Cadets confined to the cricket field are to report themselves to the gymnasium sergeant.

Mess offenses will receive mess punishments.

Permission to use the blue boats and sailing cutters will be stopped for offenses committed when away in them..

Offenses after the third time to be considered habitual, and the punishment to be doubled, or the case reported to the captain.

Pocket money to be stopped if four offenses of any description are recorded during the week.

OFFENSES TO BE REPORTED TO THE CAPTAIN.

Improper use of lights, immoral language or conduct, including falsehood or subterfuge, insubordination or disrespect to superiors, improper possession of others' property, all grievous and repeated offenses.

NOTE.-A cadet reported more than three times in the week, or more than ten times in the month, to a lieutenant, becomes a habitual offender, and remains as such until clear of the defaulters' book for one week. He is not allowed any privileges, and for any offense is reported to the commander.

Tuesday

two vegetables.

Wednesday

Cocoa; currie; bread and Soup; roast mutton or lamb; Tea; water cress;* cold butter.

meat; bread and butter.

Roast beef; two vegetables; Tea; cold meat; bread and
two sweets.
butter.

Coffee; eggs and bacon;
bread and butter.

Saturday..... Cocoa: fish or bacon; bread Roast beef; two vegetables; Tea; cold meat; bread and

and butter.

* If procurable.

two sweets.

Except in summer.

butter.

In season.

Half pound bun loaf and quarter pint of milk on afternoons of Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and

Friday.

NOTE E.

EXAMINATION PAPERS: H. M. S. BRITANNIA.

July, 1878.

FIRST TERM.

ALGEBRA.

(Time allowed, 3 hours.)

1. Resolve into factors the expressions 3+1 and x2—x—30.

2 From 5x+4ax+ — 3a2x2 + 5a3x2+ a subtract 3x3 —7a2x2 + 12a2x2 — 11a1x —7a3.

6. Find the H. C. F. of the expressions 6x+ — 2x3 +7x2 —x+2 and 6x1 — 12x3 +

8. À certain number, when increased by 72, is three times as large as the original number. Find the original number.

9. A ship's company of 260 men was composed of seamen, marines, and stokers; the stokers were 10 more in number than the marines, but 90 less than the seamen. many were there in all?

How

ARITHMETIC.

(Time allowed, 3 hours.)

1. What is meant by the Highest Common Factor, and what by the Lowest Common Multiple of two or more numbers?

Find the H. C. F. and L. C. M. of 266, 399, and 456.

2. How many Mexican dollars worth 38. 10d. each are worth 35,530 Spanish dollars at 38. 114d. each?

4. Reduce of 74 of 16 yards to the fraction of a furlong; and of 1 oz. 13 dwt. to the decimal of 14 of 5 dwt. 15 grs.

5. Find the value of .375 of a guinea +.54 of 88. 3d. + 1.027 of 21. 158., and express

the result as the decimal of 51.

6. Find the square roots of 1.014049 and 175%.

7. Find, by practice, the value of 6 tons 7 cwt. 2 qrs. 17 lb. at 31. 10s. 7d. per cwt.

8. A mine is worth 3,7001., and a man who owns of it sells .135i of his share. What money does he receive for it?

9. If 7 men working 103 hours a day can earn 47. 158. 3d. in 5 days, what sum will 28 men earn in 15 days if they work 5.3 hours a day?

LATIN.

(Time allowed, 3 hours.)

1. Translate into English, parsing the words in italics:

(a.) Ethiopes, pardorum leonumque pellibus amicti, arcus habent prælongos: sagittas vero breves: his pro ferro lapides acuti præfixi sunt. Hastas præterea habent, his præfixa sunt cornua cervorum: habent etiam clavas nodosas. Corporis dimidium, in pugnam prodeuntes, creta dealbatum habent, dimidium minio pictum. Alii caput tectum habent pelle equina, de capite equi detracta, cum auribus et juba. Pro scutis gruum pellibus corpora tegunt.