attended the full Courses of Instruction in Drawing, Mapping, Surveying, and all other subjects, Collegiate and Practical, now required by the Ordinances, but not previously attended or included in their B.A. Course.

DIPLOMA IN AGRICULTURE.

Candidates for this Diploma are required to pass a Matriculation Examination (for which see p. 217), and afterwards pursue the two-year's course prescribed by the University, see p. 43.

The instructions in Mapping and Surveying required in the Courses for Diplomas in Agriculture, include regular Practical Exercises and Observations in the Field, with the use of Instruments, continued throughout the Session.

Students who shall have passed through the above Course, and also attended, during twelve months, the Practical Working of a Farm, under the direction of an Agriculturist approved by the College Council, will be admitted to Examination for the Diploma in Agriculture.

Students intending to qualify themselves for the Management of Estates, or of Extensive Farms, are recommended to attend also Sessional Courses of Instruction in1st. The Law of Landlord and Tenant, and the Elements of Conveyancing.

2nd. Elements of Political Economy and Statistics, as applied to Agriculture and Farm Finance.

THE COLLEGE SESSION, 1858-59.

The First Term commenced on the 19th of October, 1858, and ended on the 23rd of December.

The Second Term commenced on the 7th of January, 1859, and will end on the 16th of April.*

The Third Term will commence on the 2nd of May, 1859, and end with the Session, on the 11th of June.

SESSION 1859-60.

The First Term will commence on the 18th of October, 1859, and end on the 23rd of December.

The Second Term will commence on the 9th of January, 1860, and end on the 31st of March.

The Third Term will commence on the 16th of April, 1860, and end on the 9th of June.

*N.B.-The Easter recess for the Medical Faculty will commence on the Tuesday before Easter, and end on Easter Monday.

SUBJECTS OF THE MATRICULATION EXAMINATIONS.

For the Faculties of Arts, Medicine, and Law.

English:

Grammar.

Greek :

Xenophon-First Book of the Anabasis; Grammar.

Latin :

Virgil-First Book of the Æneid.

Latin Prose-Re-translation from English into Latin of short sentences from Cæsar, Gallic War, Book I.

Mathematics :

The

Arithmetic-Principles of Notation. Vulgar and Decimal
· Fractions, with the reasons of the different rules.
Rule of Proportion, with its commercial applications, in-
cluding Simple Interest.

Euclid-Book I.

For the Department of Civil Engineering.

The outlines of Modern Geography; Grammar.
Mathematics-Arithmetic, Principles of Notation, Vulgar and
Decimal Fractions, with the reasons of the different rules.
Rule of Proportion, with its commercial applications; Ex-
traction of the Square Root, both of whole numbers and
decimals.
Algebra--Explanation of the signs and meaning of an Index,
calculation of the value of Algebraic expressions, when
particular values are given to the letters which they involve.
Euclid Books I., II., III., IV., and VI., with the definitions
of Book V.

For the Department of Agriculture.

The English Language:

Grammar and Composition.

Mathematics:

First Four Rules of Arithmetic. Proportion. Vulgar and
Decimal Fractions. Extraction of the Square Root.

Modern Geography.

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COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS FOR THE INDIA CIVIL SERVICE, AND FOR ADMISSION TO THE MILITARY ACADEMY AT WOOLWICH.

The arrangements with respect to the Examination of Candidates for admission to the Indian Civil Service, and to the Military Academy, have been published by the Civil Service Commissioners, and by the Authorities of the War Office.

For the arrangements respecting the Indian Civil Service, see p. 287.

The number and comparative values of the different subjects determined upon for the two Examinations may be seen at once in the accompanying table :—

The following Lectures on these subjects are delivered in Queen's College, Cork :

Gentlemen may attend at their own option any one or more of the above Lectures as Non-Matriculated Students,

upon payment of a fee, in no case exceeding £2, for each class, and one of five shillings to the College.

The Council of the College would, however, recommend all gentlemen who may intend to prepare themselves for these examinations at Queen's College, Cork, if enabled to devote sufficient time for that purpose, to avail themselves of the courses of study prescribed to Students who may wish to proceed to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in the Queen's University in Ireland.

The Classes at present required from Matriculated Students are

Natural Philosophy,

The Higher Mathematics, or
The Greek & Latin Languages.

Fees for Session, £6 15s.

THIRD YEAR.

Metaphysics, or

History and English Literature, Jurisprudence and Political
Physical Geography,
Economy.

Fees for Session, £5 5s.

At the end of the third year, Matriculated Students are admitted to graduate in Arts after passing the examinations prescribed by the Senate of the University.

By adopting this course the Candidate, if he should be unsuccessful in the competitive examinations, will secure the benefit of a degree, which, in addition to other advantages, will materially shorten the period of his admission to the profession of Barrister, Solicitor or Attorney, Physician or Surgeon; and will enable him, after one year's additional attendance on lectures, to obtain the Diploma of Assistant Engineer from the Queen's University.

The Professors who have charge of the different departments comprised in the Civil Service and Woolwich Examinations will undertake the special supervision and direction of the studies of such Students as may announce their intention of offering themselves as Candidates, pro

vided the proficiency of the students may hold out a reasonable prospect of success.

A fee of £1 will be payable by those gentlemen who may wish to avail themselves of such special and personal supervision.

SCHOLARSHIPS.

The Examinations for Scholarships will commence on Tuesday, the 18th of October, 1859.* The College Council are empowered to confer at these Examinations ten Senior Scholarships, of the value of £40 each, and forty-five Junior Scholarships, viz. :-Fifteen in Literature, and fifteen in Science, of the value of £24 each; six in Medicine, three in Law, and two in Civil Engineering, of the value of £20 each; and four in Agriculture, of the value of £15 each and if competent Candidates present themselves, these Scholarships will be awarded to the most deserving. The Scholarships are tenable for one year only; but the Scholars of each year are, at its expiration, eligible to become candidates for the Scholarships of the succeeding year. A Scholarship, however, of the same year in the same Faculty, cannot be held twice by the same Student.

The Scholarships of the first year are open to all Students of the respective Faculties who have passed the Matriculation Examination. Those of the second, third, and fourth years are open to all Students who have passed the Examinations, and attended the Lectures prescribed in the preceding part of their Course of Study.

If any Student be placed, at the Examination for Junior Literary and Science Scholarships, first on both the lists of Candidates, he will be entitled to a Scholarship of each Division; but in no other case will the same Student be permitted to hold two Scholarships.

No. Student is entitled to become a Candidate for a Scholarship until he shall have paid the College and Class Fees for the current Session.

The Scholarship endowment is paid by quarterly instalments, and its tenure is dependent on the Scholar's performance (so far as required by the College) of the

* See Programme of Scholarship Examinations, p. 244.