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Third Examination.

Advanced Anatomy, Pathology, Materia Medica, and Pharmacy.

Fourth Examination.

Medicine, Surgery, Midwifery and Gynecology, Medical Jurisprudence, and Hygiene.

The total Fee is raised to £30.

The Registrar for Edinburgh is James Robertson, Esq., Solicitor, 1, George-square.

The Registrar for Glasgow is Alexander Duncan, Esq., Faculty Hall, St. Vincent-street, from whom full Programmes may be had.

IV.-REGULATIONS

PRESCRIBED BY GENERAL

MEDICAL COUNCIL RESPECTING MEDICAL
COURSES IN AND AFTER 1892.

With regard to the Course of Study and Examinations which persons desirous of qualifying for the Medical Profession shall go through in order that they may become possessed of the requisite knowledge and skill for the efficient practice of the Profession, the General Medical Council have resolved that the following conditions ought to be enforced without exception on all who commence their Medical Studies at any time after January 1, 1892 :

(a) With the exception provided below, the period of Professional Studies between the date of Registration as a Medical Student and the date of Final Examination for any Diploma which entitles its bearer to be registered under the Medical Acts, must be a period of bond fide study during not less than five years.

(b) In every Course of Professional Study and Examinations, the following subjects must be contained :

(i.) Physics, including the Elementary Mechanics of Solids and Fluids, and the rudiments of Heat, Light, and Electricity. (ii.) Chemistry, including the principles of the Science, and the details which bear on the study of Medicine.

(iii.) Elementary Biology.

(iv.) Anatomy.

(v. to xv.) All the other subjects which are included in the Curriculum

of the Royal University.

The first four of the five years of Medical Study should be passed at a School or Schools of Medicine recognised by any of the Licensing Bodies, provided that the First Year may be passed at a University, or Teaching Institution, recognised by any of the Licensing Bodies, where the subjects of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology are taught.

The Examination in the Elements of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology should be passed before the beginning of the Second Winter Season.

The exception referred to above in (a) is as follows:

Graduates in Arts or Science of any University recognised by the Medical Council, who shall have spent a year in the Study of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology, and have passed an Examination in these subjects for the Degrees in question, should be held to have completed the first of the five years of Medical Study.

V.-DEGREE OF BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

Extract from Educational Regulations of the Honourable Society of King's Inns :

XX. Graduates of the Queen's University in Ireland, Royal University of Ireland, Oxford, Cambridge, and London Universities, may qualify for call to the Bar by attending two continuous Courses of the Lectures of the two Professors at the King's Inns, and in the case of all such Graduates, except Graduates of the Royal University of Ireland, or of the London University, by attending for a year the Lectures of two of the Professors of Law in their respective Universities, and passing the Examinations (if any) held by the Professors at the end of each Course; and in the case of Graduates of the Royal University of Ireland, by attending for one year the Lectures of two of the Professors of Law in one of the Queen's Colleges at Belfast, Cork, or Galway, and passing the like Examinations, if such be held, and in the case of Graduates of the University of London, by attending for one year the Lectures of two of the Professors of Law in University College, and passing the like Examinations if such be held.

VI.-EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR THE OFFICE OF INSPECTOR OF NATIONAL SCHOOLS.

1. An annual Competitive Examination, of nominated Candidates, for the office of Inspector of National Schools, will be held in the month of May in the year 1895, and in every subsequent year, at a time and place to be announced not less than three months before the Examination.

3. The Competitive Examination will be conducted by the Civil Service Commissioners, upon a programme of General Culture to be prescribed by the Commissioners of National Education from time to time, not later than the 1st of August preceding the Examination.

4. No candidate will be admitted to compete unless he shall have been approved as a fit person to be nominated by the Committee of Selection appointed for the purpose. Every Candidate desiring to compete must apply, in writing, to the Commissioners, for a nomination before the 1st day of January preceding the Examination; before obtaining a nomination, he must furnish such evidence of his qualifications, good health, character, and conduct as may be required, and he must also present himself, when summoned, before the Committee of Selection at the National Education Office.

5. Candidates, not being National School Teachers or Inspectors' Assistants, must be between the ages of twentythree and thirty-four years.

6. Each Candidate successful at the Competitive Examination must be prepared, before his appointment as Inspector, to undergo a course of training, in the duties of Inspector and in subjects of a professional nature, and at the conclusion of such course to pass a qualifying Examination in professional subjects, hereinafter referred to as the Professional Examination. The Professional Examination will be conducted by the Officers of the Commissioners, and the course of training and the programme of the Professional Examination will be prescribed by the Commissioners from time to time.

9. Any Candidate unsuccessful at the Competitive Examination will receive a second nomination if he continues otherwise qualified, provided his answering shall have been, in the opinion of the Commissioners, sufficiently meritorious. Under special circumstances, a third nomination may be granted, but no Candidate will be admitted to compete more than three times.

COURSE OF EXAMINATION FOR CANDIDATES FOR INSPECTORSHIPS under the Board OF NATIONAL EDUCATION, IRELAND. There will be Two Examinations, viz. :

I. The Competitive Examination in Subjects of general culture, to be conducted by the Civil Service Commissioners.

II. The Professional Examination in Professional Subjects, to be conducted under the immediate direction of the Commissioners of National Education.

In the case of each Candidate the Commissioners constituting the "Committee of Selection" must be satisfied

1. That his testimonials as to character and health are satisfactory.

2. That he expresses himself correctly and distinctly. 3. That he writes a fair legible hand.

4. That he spells accurately.

5. That, in the judgment of the Committee, he is a
suitable Candidate for the office of an Inspector
of National Schools.

SUBJECTS FOR EXAMINATION BY THE CIVIL SERVICE
COMMISSIONERS.

NOTE.-In all Subjects not marked Optional, the Candidate must obtain a qualifying minimum number of marks.

A.-ENGLISH-Grammar, Spelling, and Composition will be taken into account in the English Subjects.

I. Grammar, Philology and History of the English Lan-
guage. (Sweet's New English Grammar),

Marks.

300

II. History of English Literature-(Shaw, Student's English
Literature, by Smith),

300

III. English Literature.-Bacon's Essays (first 20); Addison's
Spectator (Clar. Press Edn.); Goldsmith (Vicar of
Wakefield); Mathew Arnold (Celtic Literature); Ruskin
(Lectures on Art).

Chaucer (Prologue); Shakespeare (Tempest and Richard
II.); Milton (Paradise Lost, i.-ii.); Dryden_ (The
Flower and Leaf); Pope (Essay on Man); Byron
(Childe Harold, iii.-iv.); Moore (Irish Melodies);
Tennyson (Locksley Hall),

IV. History-(a) Greece; (b) Rome; (c) Europe, from 800
to 1603 A.D.; (d) Europe and British Empire, from
1603 to 1871 A.D.,

[Two of these subjects, of which (d) must be one, are
compulsory, but the four may be taken-100 marks
each being assigned for (a), (b), and (c), and 200 marks
for (d)].

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400

500

V. Geography, Political, Physical, and Mathematical.—
(Geography Generalized),

200

VI. Political Economy-(Mill, Books 1, 2, 3, 5. J. Kells
Ingram, History of Political Economy). (Optional),

200

VII. Logic (Jevons). (Optional),

100

B.-MATHEMATICS :

I. Arithmetic,

II. Geometry.-Euclid, I., II., III., IV., VI., with defini-
tions of Book V. and ordinary deducibles; also Men-
suration of Surfaces and Solids,

III. Algebra, up to and including Quadratic Equations,
Ditto, Advanced Course. (Optional),

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Plane and Spherical. Advanced Course.
(Optional),

V. Analytical Geometry and Conic Sections. (Optional),
Differential and Integral Calculus. (Optional),

C.-PHYSICAL AND NATURAL SCIENCE :

I. Mechanics.-(Elementary),

400

400

200

200

200

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300

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300

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