LIST OF EXAMINERS.

Mathematics.-Rev. J. W. L. Heaviside, M.A., Canon of Norwich, and late Professor at Haileybury College.-Rev. A.V. Hadley, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of St. John's College, Cambridge.

Classics.-Rev. G. Rawlinson, M.A., Camden Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford.-Rev. O. Gordon, B.D., late Censor of Christ's Church, Oxford.

English and History.-G. W. Dasent, Esq., D.C.L.W. Stebbing, Esq., M.A., Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.

French.-A. Esquiros, Esq.-C. J. Savoye, Esq.

German.-Professor Max Müller, M.A., late Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford.-Rev. C. Schöll, Ph. D.

Experimental Sciences.-Professor Liveing, M.A.-F. A, Abel, Esq., F.R.S.

Natural Sciences.-Warington Smyth, Esq., M.A., F.R.S.— S. P. Woodward, Esq., F.G.S.

Geometrical Drawing -Captain Scott, Royal Engineers, Establishment for Field Instruction, Chatham.

Landscape Drawing.-Rev. W. Kingsley, B.D., late Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

Hindustani.-Professor J. Dowson.-Rev. W. D. Maclagan

M.A.

The following Extracts from the Reports of the Examiners may prove useful in directing the Studies of future Candidates.

Mathematics.-Rev. Canon Heaviside, M.A.

The result must be considered eminently satisfactory, as it exhibits a marked improvement in the qualifications of the Candidates as compared with the last Examination. Of course there are still many Candidates who have not learned, either by their own estimate, or by the estimate of their Tutor, how far they are from having reached attainments that could give them any hope of success; yet every half year the Examination seems to be better understood, and in due time, I have no doubt, the desperate cases will become nearly eliminated. I allude to this circumstance because it is so discouraging a thing to Candidates, and to their parents, to go through, perhaps, an expensive preparation, where a single caution from a qualified Tutor might give warning of the failure that, in many cases, must be foreseen to be inevitable. Already I think perceive the good effect produced by the change the Council has made in giving more credit to the elementary subjects; I have never conducted an Examination for Woolwich in which so many Candidates seemed well-grounded in their Arithmetic, Algebra, and Geometry, as the present. I have, in my former Reports, dwelt upon the importance of securing this result, and I am happy to inform the Council that I think it is fast being realised.

Mathematics. Rev. A. V. Hadley, M.A.

The marked features exhibited in the Examination were the numerical accuracy generally attained, and the facility displayed for obtaining Arithmetical results, contrasted with the want of clear comprehension of the full meaning and scope of the question proposed. This was especially apparent in Trigonometry. The Candidates appeared generally to be familiar with the ordinary Trigonometrical formulæ, and with the construction and application of the tables of Logarithms.

The papers in the higher section of Pure Mathematics were, with but few exceptions, indifferent. In these exceptions, however, considerable power was manifested.