3. What are the principal tools used by masons? Describe them in the order they would be used for preparing a large ashlar bluestone base, with bevel at top and worked face with margins. Describe each kind of finish that would be suitable for the beds and joints, face, margins, and bevels respectively.

4. Explain, and illustrate with sketches, the meaning of the following terms:-(a) Spandrel, (b) larried, (c) grouted, (d) dry area, (e) reveal, (f) pargetting, (g) dowel, (h) scribing.

5. Give briefly some information as to the freestones used in Melbourne, and their good points and defects respectively.

6. Give some particulars as to the imported timbers usually used in Melbourne for floors and rooftimbers and flooring, and give clause of specifications for several different kinds of flooring.

7. What are the objects of modern drainage? Sketch on the plan marked B the drains and other requirements. Position of sewer is shown on plan. Separate system of drainage.

8. Describe and sketch the different kinds of shores, and the positions in which they are useful respectively. State the principal precautions to be observed in fixing them.

9. Give some notes and information as to two out of the three following:-(a) Water and gas pipe fitting; (b) slating and iron roofs; (c) electric and ordinary bellhanging.

ARCHITECTURE.-PLANNING.

SECOND PAPER.

The Board of Examiners.

1. In the accompanying plan A of a villa residence, drawn to an -inch scale, the rooms required for the family are shown, also the points of the compass for aspect, and the direction of best prospect. Write on the plan what rooms you would adopt for dining, drawing, breakfast, and bedrooms respectively; also note the best positions for piano, sideboard, beds, &c.; and sketch in the position and sizes you would adopt for doors, windows, and fireplaces throughout, showing the hanging of the doors. Also sketch in the arrangements for pantry, store, larder, kitchen, scullery (to be used also as washhouse), and servant's bedroom.

2. What are the rules as to designing staircases? Give general dimensions for different classes of buildings, and some special notes as to public buildings.

3. In what rooms are questions of aspect most important, and what means may be adopted to minimize the effects of bad aspect? In what rooms is good prospect most important? In a house with westerly prospect, sketch generally how you would place dining, drawing, study, and breakfast room.

4. Describe the necessary kitchen, serving, and storage arrangements, also washing and laundry arrangement of a large hotel. Describe the work done therein, and give sketches.

5. Give the meaning of the following terms, and illustrate by sketches (a) ingle-nook fireplace, (b) centre-hung sashes, (c) French casement sash, (d) serving drum, (e) chevet, (ƒ) narthex.

6. Describe in detail and sketch the principal points involved in designing the auditorium and entrances and exits of a theatre with a pit and stalls and two tiers.

Give some information as to English and American plans. State the rules and practice as to sizes of doors, stairs, exits, &c.

ARCHITECTURE.-HISTORICAL.

THIRD PAPER.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Explain and illustrate with sketches the meaning of the following terms:-(a) Nave and aisles, (b) pseudo peripteral, (c) corbel table, (d) apse, (e) triglyph, (f) transept, (g) lierne rib.

State in what styles they originate, and where they are afterwards used.

2. Give some information and dates and sketches as to the earliest forms of (a) doorways, (b) windows,

(c) porches, (d) towers. Briefly trace any developments and changes up to the 7th century

A.D.

3. What new elements or combinations are found in the architectural work of the (a) Saxons, (b) Assyrians, (c) Italian Romanesque, (d) Sicilian Romanesque, (e) Provençal Romanesque ?

4. In what constructive and decorative details and feeling does Early Roman work differ from Greek? Give descriptions and sketches. What new features were used in later Roman work?

5. When were pointed arches first used, and why? What caused the Gothic architects to use them, and from whom did they learn the form? Give full explanations and sketches.

6. What elements did the Renaissance architects derive from the ancient Roman and Gothic architects respectively? Give some examples.

7. The photographs accompanying, number from 1 upwards, represent various ancient, classic, and mediæval buildings and details, typical of various styles, orders, and periods.

Give in each case (a) the style; (b) the country or locality; (c) the order, period, or century; (d) explain upon what details or feeling you base your opinion. If you recognize the particular building give some special facts with regard

to it.

Point out any special influence of climate, material, or race.

PHYSIOLOGY.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Explain clearly how the changes occurring to the air and to the blood during their sojourn in the lungs can be determined experimentally. State the general nature of these changes.

2. Show, by means of diagrams and descriptive notes, the effects upon the blood pressure which follow

upon

(a) Cutting the left splanchnic nerve.

(b) Stimulating a sensory nerve (e.g. sciatic). (c) Injection of supra-renal extract.

(d) Asphyxia.

State briefly how the effect is produced in each case, and the evidence in favour of your

answer.

3. Write an account of the long tracts of white matter in the spinal cord, including an explanation of the methods employed to differentiate such

tracts.

Give diagrams showing the position of the nerve cells from which the fibres of such tracts originate. How has this been made out?

4. Give drawings showing the precise mechanism for absorption in the small intestine.

What is the course taken by proteids, fats, and

dextrose when absorbed ?

State clearly the

evidence upon which your answer is based.

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