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obtained before January 1, 1859, and of £5 in respect of qualifications obtained since that date, to be registered as a medical practitioner.

(b) Royal College of Physicians. Any one who has obtained the degree of Doctor or Bachelor of Medicine may be admitted to the Pass examination for membership of the College: and a Graduate in Arts is exempted from examination in Greek, Latin, French, or German.

(c) Royal College of Surgeons.

I. Any one who has passed Responsions is exempted from the preliminary examination for membership of the College.

2. Any one who has taken the Degree of Bachelor or Doctor of Medicine is exempted from the examination in Medicine and Midwifery for membership of the College.

3. A Graduate in Arts is exempted from the preliminary examination for the Fellowship of the College.

4. A Graduate in Arts is admissible to the second Professional Examination for the Fellowship of the College if he has been engaged for five (instead of six) years in the study of the Profession.

5. Any one who has taken the degree of Bachelor or Doctor of Medicine is exempted from examination in Medicine for the Fellowship of the College.

(d) Society of Apothecaries.

1. Any one who has passed Responsions is exempted from the Society's examination in Arts.

2. Any one who has passed the First Examination for the degree of Bachelor of Medicine is admitted to membership of the Society on passing a single examination in Materia Medica, Therapeutics, Practice of Medicine, Pathology, Midwifery, Forensic Medicine, and Toxicology.

3. Any one who has taken the degree of Bachelor or Doctor of Medicine is admitted to membership of the Society on passing an examination in Practice of Medicine, Pathology, and Midwifery. 3. IN THE ARMY.

By the War Office Regulations a certain number of vacancies for Sandhurst are allotted every six months to University students. Candidates must either have passed the First Public

Examination, in which case their age must be between the limits of seventeen and twenty-one, or have taken a degree in Arts, in which case their age must be between the limits of seventeen and twenty-two. The application must be made in the month of May or October and not later than the 31st of May or 31st of October next following the date of the Candidate's obtaining his University qualification, and must be accompanied by certain certificates, the particulars of which will be found in the printed Regulations respecting Examinations for Admission to the Royal Military College and for First Appointments therefrom to the Army. All University Candidates must satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners of their proficiency in Geometrical Drawing. In case there should be more Candidates than vacancies, the required number will be selected by competition among the said Candidates at the ensuing July or December Examination. But those University Candidates who fail in their first Examination are allowed to have a second opportunity, provided that their age, when they avail themselves of such second opportunity, does not exceed twenty-two, if undergraduates, and twenty-three, if graduates.

4. IN THE CIVIL SERVICE.

Candidates for Attachéships in the Diplomatic Service who have passed the First Public Examination are exempted from examination in Latin. Candidates who have taken a degree are exempted from examination in all subjects except Handwriting, Précis, and French1.

V. SELECTED CANDIDATES FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA,

The University of Oxford being one of the Universities approved by the Secretary of State for India at which Selected Candidates for the Civil Service of India may pass their two years of probation, arrangements have been made by the University for the instruction, and by most Colleges for the reception, of such Selected Candidates.

1 This clause is suspended in competitive examinations.

1. Admission of Selected Candidates. A Selected Candidate is eligible for immediate admission at almost all Colleges and Halls, or as a Non-Collegiate Student of the University. At Christ Church there are six Scholarships, of not more than £50 a year each, for which Selected Candidates alone are eligible. They are in all cases required to matriculate as members of the University, but are not required to pass an entrance examination. It is not always possible for such Candidates to be admitted to residence within the College walls: in this case they can reside in licensed lodgings selected by themselves. The arrangements of the several Colleges and Halls vary so widely that it is advisable for a Selected Candidate, as soon as he has fixed upon the particular College or Hall at which he would prefer to enter, to write to the Head of that College or Hall, and ascertain from him the precise conditions under which he would be admitted.

2. Instruction of Selected Candidates. Instruction is provided by the University in each of the six subjects prescribed in the Regulations of the Civil Service Commissioners.

(1) In Law, the Regius Professor of Civil Law usually gives each year two, or three, Courses of lectures upon Roman Law. The Reader in Roman Law also lectures in that subject. The Reader in Indian Law lectures upon the prescribed subjects.

(2) In the Classical Languages of India the Professor of Sanskrit gives instruction during each Term both in the elements and in the higher philology of the language: the Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic and the Laudian Professor of Arabic give whatever instruction may be necessary in that language during each Term, and the Teacher of Persian lectures during thirty-two weeks in the year.

(3) In the vernacular languages of India the Teacher of Hindustani and the Teacher of Telugu give instruction three times a week during thirty-two weeks in the year in Hindustani, and in Telugu and Tamil, respectively. Instruction is also provided in Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, and Burmese.

(4) In the History and Geography of India the Reader in Indian History lectures twice a week during Term, and also receives exercises from persons who attend his lectures.

(5) In Political Economy the Professor of Political Economy lectures at least twice a week during two Terms.

(6) In Natural Science, the Professors of Botany, Rural Economy, Geology, and Zoology, respectively, give not only lectures but practical instruction, and the Botanic Garden (p. 60) and the Geological and Zoological departments of the Museum are open for study during the greater part of the year.

The fees for these lectures vary, and in several cases the instruction is free: but the total fees payable by a Selected Candidate for tuition vary from about £30 to £35 a year, including the ordinary College fees for tuition, and special courses of lectures which are provided when necessary for the Selected Candidates in the subjects of their examinations.

In addition to the University teaching, every Selected Candidate who enters a College or Hall is admitted to the lectures of the College or Hall, so far as they bear upon his course of reading.

3. Examinations for the Degree of B.A. A Selected Candidate is not required to pass Responsions: but he must pass the First Public Examination in the ordinary way. In the Pass School of the Second Public Examination certain changes have recently been made, the operation of which, though not confined to Selected Candidates, is of special benefit to them. A Candidate in that School may now offer Sanskrit, or Persian, or both, in lieu of either Greek and Latin or a modern European language: he may also offer a period of Indian History and a branch of Indian Law. That is to say, he can obtain his degree by offering three of the same subjects which he is required to offer to the Civil Service Commissioners.

4. Examinations for the Degree of B.C.L. Certain branches of Indian Law are now included as principal subjects in this Examination (see p. 205).

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VI. AFFILIATED COLLEGES.

Any College or Institution within the United Kingdom or in any part of the British Dominions, being a place of education in which the majority of the students are of the age of seventeen at least, may be admitted to the privileges of an Affiliated College on the following conditions, namely:

(a) That its members have been incorporated by Royal Charter, or that provision has been otherwise made for its

establishment on a permanent and efficient footing and for its government.

(b) That it shall allow the University to be represented on its Governing Body and to take such part in its Examinations as shall from time to time be determined by or under the authority of the University.

(c) That it shall have been admitted to the privileges of an Affiliated College by a vote of Convocation.

(d) That the connexion between the University and an Affiliated College shall be terminable either by a vote of Convocation, or by a resolution of the Governing Body of the College.

2. Any person who has completed a course of three years at least at an Affiliated College, and who has passed the Examinations connected with that course in accordance with regulations to be prescribed or approved from time to time by the Delegates of Local Examinations, is entitled to receive a Certificate from the University indicating that such person has completed at an Affiliated College a systematic course of study and examinations approved by the University.

3. Any person who has received such a Certificate may, if he has obtained Honours in the Second (or final) Examination at such affiliated College, be admitted as a Candidate in the First Public Examination of the University without having been matriculated; and if he satisfies the Moderators in that Examination, and is matriculated in the course of the Term next following, he is not required to pass Responsions, and the Term in which he has been matriculated is, for the purposes of any provision respecting the standing of members of the University, reckoned as the fifth Term from his matriculation; and if he obtains Honours either in the First or in the Second Public Examination, he can obtain the degree of Bachelor of Arts as soon as he has kept statutable residence for eight Terms and has passed the Second Public Examination. But no person already matriculated can offer himself as a Candidate in the First Public Examination under the provisions of this Statute.

The Colleges at present so affiliated are St. David's College, Lampeter, and University College, Nottingham.

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