V. Biology.-(Elementary), Ditto, Advanced Course. (Optional), [Three of these subjects, of which Elementary Mechanics Ditto, D.-LANGUAGES (including Grammar and Composition) :- III. Irish Language, Literature, and History, Marks. 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 Advanced Course. (Optional), 300 IV. Italian Language, Literature, and History, 200 [Two of these Languages (French (I.) or German (II.) being E. ANCIENT CLASSICS (including Language, Literature, Grammar, VII.-COUNTY SURVEYORSHIPS. Regulations (framed in pursuance of the Acts 7th and 8th Victoria, cap. 106, and 25th and 26th Victoria, cap. 106) for Examinations for County Surveyorships or for District Surveyorships in Ireland. I. The Examination consists of two parts, and will be in the following subjects, viz. :— PART I. Maximum of Marks. } 100 100 MATHEMATICS-including Geometry, Trigonometry, Algebra, GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY, No Candidate will be eligible who does not show some pro- PART II. } 40 Strength and other Properties of Materials, and the Calculation} 100 Stresses and Strains, (A.) RAILWAY AND CANAL ENGINEERING, (B.) MARINE ENGINEERING Including Harbour, Dock, Sea, Works, 140 140 (C.) HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING-Including Water Supply, Sew-} 140 age, and Irrigation, (D.) COUNTY WORKS-Including Architecture, Roads, Drain- 140 age, and 1000 Each of the groups lettered A, B, C, D, to include Designs, Estimates, Specifications, and the mechanical contrivances connected with it; and Candidates will be required to show that they have been engaged in the practice of their profession on adequate works for a sufficient time, or have had in some other way satisfactory opportunities of becoming acquainted with the practice of their profession in some one of the branches thus indicated. II. No Candidate will be eligible whose age on the first day of the Examination is less than 26 or more than 40. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, 24th July, 1894. VIII.-MEDICAL COMMISSIONS IN THE ARMY, NAVY, AND INDIAN SERVICES. Limits of Age, 21-28 for Army and Navy; 22-28 for India. Candidates, who must be registered as qualified to practise Medicine and Surgery, will be examined in the following compulsory subjects, and the highest marks attainable will be distributed as follows: (a) Medicine, including the Diseases of Women (b) Surgery, (c) Anatomy and Physiology, (d) Chemistry and Materia Medica, with a practical Marks. !} 1000 1000 1000 1000 1 N.B.—The Examination in Medicine and Surgery will be in part practical, and will include operations on the dead body, the application of Surgical apparatus, and the examination of Medical and Surgical patients at the bedside. The Examination in Chemistry will be limited to the elements of the science, and to its application to Medicine, Pharmacy, and Practical Hygiene; and the Examination in Materia Medica will include a knowledge of the Physiological actions and Therapeutical uses of drugs.. No Candidate shall be considered eligible who shall not have obtained at least one-third of the maximum marks in each of the above compulsory subjects. 5. Candidates may be examined in the following voluntary subjects, for which the maximum number of marks obtainable will be: Marks. Biology, Physics, and Physical Geography (100) 300 French and German (150 each), 300 Candidates for India may add Hindustani (150 marks) to the language group. A number less than one-third of the marks obtainable in each of these voluntary subjects will not be allowed to count in favour of the Candidate who has qualified in the compulsory subjects. The knowledge of Modern Languages being considered of great importance, all intending competitors are urged to qualify in French and German. The Natural Sciences will include Biology, Physics, and Physical Geography. Candidates will be examined in all, or any, of these sciences. Candidates who qualify in the compulsory subjects will be allowed to count marks in those of the three sciences only in which they obtain one-third of the maximum marks for each. N.B. The Examination in Biology will include the general principles of the science; structure and life-histories of the chief animal and vegetable parasites; bacteria and their relation to disease; distinctive characters of the important groups of animals, with a special knowledge of the vertebrata; the elements of embryology; the general morphology and physiology of flowering plants; diagnosis of the chief British natural orders; medicinal plants. The Examination in Physics will be limited to general principles of mechanics, acoustics, optics, heat, magnetism and electricity, such as:-the properties of solids, liquids, and gases; conservation of energy, specific gravity, propagation and reflection of sound and light, temperature, specific and latent heat, thermometers, conduction of heat, properties of mirrors and lenses, chromatic dispersion of light, chief forms of batteries; Faradaic, galvanic, and frictional electricity; general properties of magnets. The Examination in Physical Geography will be limited to general principles, such as the relations of the earth to the rest of the solar system, movements of the earth, nature of the earth's crust, and the chief kinds of rocks, general configuration of land and water, mountain ranges, plains, lakes, rivers, islands, glaciers, and icebergs, the ocean currents, tides, the earth's atmosphere, winds and storms, dew, clouds, rain, climate, general distribution and nature of volcanoes, earthquakes, general distribution of animal and vegetable life. N MEDICAL COMMISSIONS. Further information may be had from the following authorities: NAVY:-Director - General, Medical Department, Admiralty, ARMY:-Adjutant-General to the Forces, Horse Guards, War INDIA :—Military Secretary, India Office, Westminster, Lon- IX.-HOME CIVIL SERVICE. CLERKSHIPS (CLASS I).-REGULATIONS. 1. The limits of age for these situations are 22 and 24, and Candidates must be of the prescribed age on the first day of the Competitive Examination. EXTRACT FROM THE REGULATIONS RESPECTING OPEN COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS FOR CLERKSHIPS (CLASS I.) IN THE CIVIL SERVICE. "Out of the list resulting from each Examination will be filled (provided there be Candidates duly qualified) :— (a) All the vacancies in Class I. which may have been reported to the Civil Service Commissioners up to the date of the commencement of the Examination. (b) Such other vacancies (being in the New Higher Division of the Playfair Scheme ') as the Civil Service Commissioners, with the approval of the Lords of the Treasury, shall estimate as likely to occur before the expiration of six months from the commencement of the Examination. (c) Any additional vacancies occurring within the same period, which the Head of the Department may desire to have so filled. Candidates will be allowed to choose, according to their place on the list, among the vacancies (a) for which they are duly qualified; or they may elect to wait for a vacancy |