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II. The Chemical Science School, including four general Laboratories, as well as special Laboratories for Quantitative and Gas Analysis; a Balance Room; a Chemical Museum, in which are a number of the rarer Chemical substances; a large Lecture Theatre; the Professors' rooms and laboratory.

III. A spacious Pathological Museum (see p. 276), with rooms for the Professor of Surgery.

IV. The Department of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, including a Laboratory, a Museum (see p. 276), and the Professors'

rooms.

V. Two Lecture Theatres, Professors' rooms, the Office of the Registrar of the School, a Tutorial Class Room and a Students' Luncheon Room.

This part of the block was completed in 1887.

VI. The Museum of Anatomy and Zoology (see p. 276), completed in 1876.

At the north end of the Zoological Museum is the block containing the Department of Institutes of Medicine, which includes a large Laboratory for Histology, a Theatre in which the Lectures in Physiology are given, and the Professors' rooms. This block was finished in 1878; and subsequently enlarged in 1901.

On the south of the middle block is the School of Pathology, which contains a large Laboratory, a Theatre, the Lecturer's room, and a number of work and preparation rooms. In this building also accommodation is at present provided for the Department of Röntgen photography.

This building was completed in 1898.

All the Theatres have their seats numbered consecutively, one being assigned to each Student on entering for the corresponding course of Lectures.

SQUARES.

The Front Square, also known as Parliament Square, was erected along with the West Front.

The Library Square contains the oldest buildings in College, some of which were standing in the latter part of the seventeenth century.

The greater part of Botany Bay Square was built about the year 1816.

The New Square was begun in 1838, and finished in 1844.

GRADUATES' MEMORIAL.

The north side of the Library Square, which contained the old houses numbered 28 to 31, was demolished in 1899.

The Graduates' Memorial occupies the centre of the new building which has been erected in the space thus vacated, and contains a theatre, a library, a reading room, recreation rooms, rooms for the use of the College Societies, cloak rooms, &c.

The wings of the new building contain forty sets of single students' chambers, and the entrances are at the east and west ends.

LABORATORY OF EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS.

The Laboratory of Experimental Physics was completed during the Summer of 1906. It is the gift of Viscount Iveagh; his Lordship contributing a sum of £16,500 for its construction and equipment. The actual cost of building was £14,708; of the fittings £1292; and the balance of nearly £500 has been laid out on Scientific Instruments.

The interior is designed so as to provide special accommodation for Students engaged in research, as well as to meet all the requirements of a large teaching laboratory. Several research rooms, furnished with every convenience in the way of scientific fittings, as well as class rooms for teaching the great divisions of Physical Science, Heat, Light, Electricity and Magnetism, are provided. There are also a large class room for introductory teaching, and a lecture theatre, seating 132, fitted with the latest facilities for demonstration.

The city current is laid on throughout the building, and a continuous current is supplied from a large storage battery in the basement.

The Architect was Mr. W. C. Marshall of London.

The annual outlay upon the upkeep of this Department is in part defrayed by the Board, and in part derived from a fund contributed by the Graduates and friends of the University during the years 1903-1906 [see Calendar Vol. III.]. From this fund an annual income of £350 is assigned to the Laboratory of Experimental Physics.

BOTANICAL LABORATORY.

The New School of Botany was opened at the beginning of Michaelmas Term, 1907. It was built and equipped through the munificence of Viscount Iveagh at a cost of about £7950, and endowed with an income of £280 per annum by public subscription to the Science Fund. The Building contains a Lecture Theatre, a large Laboratory to accommodate practical classes of 60 students, various Class Rooms, and Research Laboratories, and a small Library. The Building is equipped throughout with the various appliances and apparatus required for Botanical Instruction and Research. In 1912, partly by contribution from Viscount Iveagh, and partly by contribution from the Board, a Herbarium was added at a cost of about £800.

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x2+3x+2 by x2 - 5x +4.

6. Find the square root of 449'44.

7. Find the amount of £3000 in 4 years at 10 per cent. compound interest.

8. If A can do a piece of work in 5 days, and B in 6 days, how long will A and B, working together, take to do it?

9. A man buys 50 shares of 4 per cent. stock at 75, and after three years he sells out at 70. At what price must he invest in a 4 per cent. stock to maintain his income?

10. Find the present value of £500, due three years and three months hence, at 5 per cent. per annum.

VOL. I.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY.

MR. WILKINS.

1. Give an account of the origin of the Cabinet.

2. What was the date of the Septennial Act? Discuss the policy of this measure.

3. Mention the English Colonies acquired during the reign of George II.

4. Write a brief history of the establishment of the Independence of the United States.

5. Explain the aims and objects of the Chartists.

6. Draw a map of the coast of Germany, marking the important towns and rivers.

7. Sketch the eastern theatre of the present war in Europe.
8. Draw a map of Africa, showing the German Protectorates.
9. Where are the French Colonies situated?

10. What possessions has Germany in the Pacific Ocean?

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2. The general ordered cavalry to be sent forward to ascertain how far the enemy had advanced.

3. On the receipt of this intelligence some were filled with joy, others with sorrow.

4. The mother went home rejoicing because she had found her children.

5. Those dogs of yours must be sent away, for they disturb the neighbours by barking.

6. Accordingly, they determined to get rid of him; and for this end they sent him out, as if to reconnoitre, with a party of soldiers, who were secretly instructed to murder him. Having discovered their design, he set his back against a rock, and resolved to sell his life dear. Many of his assailants fell, and the rest stood at bay around him, not venturing to come within a sword's length; till one or two climbed up the rock behind and crushed the brave old man with massive stones. But the manner of his death could not be kept hidden from the army; and the generals only prevented an outbreak by honouring him with a magnificent funeral.

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