(Not more than six questions should be attempted.)

1. What is meant by the term Portal Circulation? Whence is the blood of the Portal Vein derived ?

2. What is a Gland?

glands in the body.

Illustrate by examples of different

3. What gives rise to Perspiration? What is its use?

4. Describe the structure of a Tooth.

5. What is Saliva? Name its chief ingredients. How does it aid the work of digestion ?

6. State what you know of the functions of the Pancreas.

7. What are the principal differences between Arterial and Venous Blood?

8. What is the Pulse? Where can it be felt? How is it produced?

COLLEGE OF PRECEPTORS.

(Incorporated by Royal Charter.)

PROFESSIONAL PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION.

-MARCH, 1887.

THURSDAY, March 10th-Morning, 11 to 1.

NATURAL HISTORY.

Examiner-Rev. Prof. HENSLOW, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S.

BOTANY.

1. Describe the specimens before you as fully as possible. Draw the different parts, as well as a diagram of a transverse section of the flowers. Give their classification.

2. Give an example of each of the sub-orders of Ranunculaceæ, pointing out their peculiarities, respectively. Why are Crocus and Iris in the same family? How does an Elder flower differ from that of any Umbellifer, and a Sedge from a Grass?

3. Why are some flowers irregular? Name any British Orders characterised by their having irregular flowers, and describe several examples, pointing out in what features the irregularity consists.

4. Describe the anatomy of a herbaceous stem of one year's growth of any Exogen and also of any Endogen.

5. What effect has the total absence of light upon the development of stems, leaves, and flowers, of flowering plants; and what is the effect of heat upon plants?

6. How are the following British genera of Ferns distinguished?-Polypodium, Asplenium, Pteris, Osmunda, and Las

træa.

1. Give an account of the Lepidoptera, as to their Families, Genera, and Species; with notes on their life-history, habits, and distribution.

2. Give a short and concise zoological account of the most important differences, internal as well as external, between a mouse and a frog.

3. Enumerate the Freshwater Fishes of Britain; and refer them to their respective Families.

4. Describe, and illustrate with diagrams, the most common kinds of shells found amongst the Mollusca; and state what you know of the animals to which you refer.

5. What are the Amphipods, Isopods, Stomapods, and Decapods? Give an account of their alliances, and of their distinctive characters.

1. Enumerate the chief Siliceous and the chief Felspathic Rocks; and state under what conditions they occur.

2. Describe the meaning of anticlinal, synclinal, dip and strike, and unconformity. Draw a section in illustration.

3. Describe the Geology of (i.) the London District; (ii.) the Wealden District; or (iii.) the Isle of Wight; with diagrammatic sections.

4. Define boulder-clay, gravel, moraine, raised beach, and delta.

5. What is meant by either the Silurian or the Devonian System? Enumerate some of the Fossils peculiar to the system you mention, and state where they are found in the British Isles.