UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

EXAMINATIONS FOR WOMEN.

THERE will be an Examination, commencing on Monday, July 3, 1871, open to Women who have completed the age of 18 years before Jan. 1, 1871. Candidates will be examined in such places as the Syndics appointed by the University may determine.

The Syndicate will entertain applications from places where 25 fees at the least are guaranteed. Application must be made not later than April 1, 1871.

Before any application for an Examination can be approved, the Syndicate must be satisfied as to the following points:

That there is a Committee of ladies who will efficiently superintend the Examination, one of whom will undertake to act as Local Secretary.

That this Committee will see that suitable accommodation can be obtained by Candidates who are strangers to the place.

That a responsible person will be at hand to receive the Examination papers from the conducting Examiner and collect the answers. Committees wishing to have Examinations held in their several districts, may obtain all necessary information from the

Rev. G. F. BROWNE,
St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

1. Every one admitted to Examination will be required to pay a fee of forty shillings. After a Certificate has been obtained, the fee in any subsequent year will be twenty shillings.

2. Papers will be set in the subjects grouped and numbered as below. Every Candidate who has not already passed in group A is required to satisfy the Examiners in all the papers set in that group, with the exception that the papers in Religious Knowledge may be omitted by any Candidate who at the time of her application for admission to the Examination declares her objection to be examined in Religious Knowledge.

3. The Candidates who satisfy the Examiners will receive Certificates to that effect, and those who pass the Examination with credit, Certificates of Honour. Every Certificate will specify the subjects in which the Candidate has passed.

4. No Certificate will be granted to any Candidate who has not passed in group A and also in one of groups B, C, D and E.

5. The names of the Candidates who pass in each group will be placed alphabetically in three classes. If a Candidate specially distinguishes herself in particular parts of the Examination, the fact will be notified by endorsement on her Certificate. After each Examination notice of the result will be sent to the home of each Candidate.

6. A Candidate who passes in group A, but not in the further subjects necessary for obtaining a Certificate, will not be examined in the papers in that group in any future year in which she may go in to the Examination for the purpose of obtaining her Certificate.

7. No Candidate will be examined in more subjects than the subjoined Time-table will allow.

After passing in group A, Candidates may be examined in other groups in subsequent years.

A schedule of books recommended by the Syndicate is appended to each group. But it is to be understood that such schedules are not intended to limit the studies of the Candidates or the range of questions in the papers set by the Examiners.

1. *Religious Knowledge.

2.

3.

Arithmetic.

GROUP A.

Outlines of English History from the Norman Conquest to the reign of George IV. inclusive. Detailed knowledge of the period from the accession of Charles I. to the death of Cromwell will be required. A knowledge of Geography, so far as it bears on this subject, will be expected.

4. *English Language and Literature.

5. Every Candidate in this group will be required to write a short English Composition.

*The papers in these subjects may be taken again in subsequent years by Candidates who wish to obtain distinction in them.

GROUP B.

1. Latin. 2. Greek. 3. French. 4. German. 5. Italian. Passages will be given for translation into English from the books mentioned in the subjoined schedule, and questions will be set on the language and subject matter of the books. In each language passages will be given for translation from some other authors, and passages of English prose for translation into each.

A knowledge of one of the five languages will enable Candidates to pass in this group. For a Certificate of Honour a knowledge of two will be required.

In the papers in French and Italian, the connexion between these languages and Latin will be included; but a knowledge of Latin will not be insisted upon as necessary for either the Pass or the Honour Certificate.

GROUP C.

1. Euclid, Books I. II. III. IV. VI. and XI. to Prop. 21 inclusive.

2. The elementary parts of Algebra; namely, the Rules for the Fundamental Operations upon Algebraical Symbols, with their proofs; the solution of Simple and Quadratic Equations; Arithmetical and Geometrical Progression, Permutations and Combinations, the Binomial Theorem and the principles of Logarithms.

3. The elementary parts of Plane Trigonometry, so far as to include the solution of Triangles.

4. The simpler properties of the Conic Sections, treated either geometrically or analytically.

5. The elementary parts of Statics, including the equilibrium of Forces acting in one plane, the properties of the Centre of Gravity, the laws of Friction, and the Mechanical Powers.

6. The elementary parts of Astronomy, so far as they are necessary for the explanation of the more simple phenomena.

7. The elementary parts of Dynamics, including the laws of Motion, Gravity, and the Theory of Projectiles.

A knowledge of the first two of these subjects will be required to enable a Candidate to pass in this group. For a Certificate of Honour, a knowledge of two at least of the remaining five will be required in addition.

A knowledge of one of these subjects will enable a Candidate to pass in this group. For a Certificate of Honour, a knowledge of both will be required.

GROUP E.

1. Botany. 2. Geology and Physical Geography.

4. Chemistry (theoretical and practical).

3. Zoology.

A knowledge of one of these subjects will enable a Candidate to pass in this group. For a Certificate of Honour, a knowledge of two of them will be required.

A paper will be given in the latter subject containing questions on the History of Art.

Every Candidate in Drawing is required to bring with her to the Examination one finished drawing, or painting, executed by herself, of such a kind as may best shew her proficiency, and which must be described as a "study from Nature," an "original drawing," or a "copy from a drawing," as the case may be.

Two hours will be allowed for a sketch, or copy, of some portion or detail of the above work, and this exercise will be judged with the finished work.

The sketch together with the finished drawing will be sent to the Examiner in Drawing. The latter will be returned to the Candidate after inspection by him.

Candidates will also be required to draw from a model.

Proficiency in these subjects will not count towards a Certificate, but will be notified on the Certificate in cases where the Candidate obtains

one.

It may be expected that about two-thirds of the questions set in each paper will have reference to the books mentioned under the Group to which it belongs.

For Geography, History, and Scriptural Characters, Candidates are referred to Stanley's Sinai and Palestine and Smith's Dictionary of the Bible.

Butler, Analogy, Part I. ch. 3, 4, 5, and II. ch. 3, 4. Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Bk. v. 1-56. Paley, Hora Paulinæ, Chap

ters 1-4.

4. and 5. Craik, Manual of English Literature and the English Language, or

Marsh, Lectures on the English Language. Edited by W. Smith.
Isaac Taylor, Words and Places.

Hallam, History of Literature, so far as relates to English writers.

The Clarendon Press Series, 'English Classics,' will be found useful to Candidates preparing for Examination in this Group.

GROUP B.

1. Virgil, Eneid 1x. x.

Cicero, de Amicitiâ and pro Lege Maniliâ.

2. Sophocles, Antigone.

Plato, Apology of Socrates.

3. Montesquieu, Grandeur et Décadence des Romains. De Tocqueville, l'ancien Régime et la Révolution. Racine, la Thébaïde, Esther.

4. Humboldt, Ansichten der Natur, 2 vols. Göthe, Egmont.

5. Leopardi, Opere. Machiavelli, Le Istorie Fiorentine. Manzoni, I promessi Sposi.

In this Group Max Müller's Lectures on the Science of Language, First Series, will be found useful. In the Second Series Lectures I. V. VI. XII. may be read.

GROUP C.

Todhunter, Trigonometry for Beginners.

Goodwin, Course of Mathematics.

Airy, Lectures on Astronomy, delivered at Ipswich.

Puckle, Elementary Treatise on Conic Sections.

GROUP D.

1. Mill, Political Economy. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations. 2. Mill, Logic. Thomson, Outlines of the Laws of Thought. Whately, Logic, Books II. and III. with App. 2.

GROUP E.

1. Oliver, Elementary Botany.

*Balfour, Manual of Botany.

*Maout, Leçons de Botanique.

*Babington, Prof. C. C., Manual of British Botany.

2. Page, Introductory Text-book of Geology.

*Jukes, The Student's Manual of Geology.

*Lyell, Principles of Geology. Tenth Edition. cc. I.—XXXIII. and

ALIV-XLIX.

*Owen, Paleontology.

Somerville, Physical Geography.

Maury, Physical Geography of the Sea.

3. Milne-Edwards, Manual of Zoology.

*Rymer Jones, Outlines of the Animal Kingdom.

*Carpenter, Zoology.

4. Roscoe, Lessons in Elementary Chemistry.

*Miller, Prof. W. A., Chemistry.

*Fownes, Chemistry.

The works marked * are suitable to more advanced Students.

GROUP F.

2. Wornum, Epochs of Painting.

Lübke, History of Art (translated by Miss Bunnett).
Labarte, Handbook to the Arts of the Middle Ages.

The last Edition is always meant where the contrary is not expressed.