the mark of distinction in the language without satisfying the Examiners in this part of the paper.

Note C. In the examination in French and German: Alternative questions will be provided for students who prefer to be examined in the language generally and not in any set book,

Section E. Every Student who is examined in this section will be required to satisfy the Examiners in Plane Geometry, viz., EUCLID, Books I. II. III. IV. VI. and XI. to Prop. 21 inclusive, and in ALGEBRA, viz., the solution of simple and quadratic equations and of problems producing such equations, the elementary rules of ratio proportion and variation, arithmetical and geometrical progression, permutations, combinations, the binominal theorem, and the theory of logarithms. Euclid and Algebra, if done well enough, are sufficient for the mark of distinction.

Question will also be set in the following subjects: 1. PLANE TRIGONOMETRY inclusive of the use of the Exponential Theorem, De Moivre's Theorem, and the expansions of sin & and cos e in powers of ; the paper will also contain some easy questions on the more advanced parts of ALGEBRA. 2. CONIC SECTIONS treated both geometrically and by easy analytical geometry. 3. APPLIED MATHEMATICS, including ELEMENTARY STATICS, viz., the fundamental ideas of mass weight and density, the equilibrium of forces acting in one plane, the properties of the centre of gravity, the laws of friction, the mechanical powers, and the principle of virtual work; ELEMENTARY DYNAMICS, viz., the laws of motion and simple applications of them, uniform and uniformly accelerated motion in a straight line, the laws of falling bodies, projectiles, Atwood's machine, and principle of work with elementary applications of it; and the ELEMENTARY PARTS OF ASTRONOMY so far as they are necessary for the general explanation of the more simple phenomena depending on the positions and motions of the bodies forming the solar system.

Section F. I (a) The general principles of CHEMICAL SCIENCE, and the facts which illustrate them. The questions will relate to such compounds and reactions as are typical or characteristic. The questions on Organic Chemistry will be limited to cyanogen and the principal cyanides; paraffins; alcohols and ethers of the ethylic type; fatty acids of the acetic type. A fair knowledge of Inorganic Chemistry will enable a Student to pass. I (b) ZOOLOGY. Questions will be set in the subject as defined for Junior Students, the classes of the Animal Kingdom being included under (1.) For distinction, Students will be expected to shew a practical acquaintance with the structure and morphology, the physiology, and the life history of the following organisms:-Amoeba.. Vorticella (Bell-animalcule). Hydra (Fresh-water Polype). Anodon (Fresh-water Mussel). Lobster, or Cray fish. Frog. A knowledge of the minute anatomy of Hydra and some acquaintance with the histology of the principal tissues of the higher animals will also be required. Students should bring a pocket lens and a desecting needle. I (c) BOTANY. Questions will be set in the subject as defined for Junior Students, with the addition of the following Natural Orders, Violacea, Geraniaceae, Rubiacea, Dipsacea, Campanulacea, Ericaceæ, Solanaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Corylaceæ, Cyperaceae, Gramineæ, and also the life history of a typical Moss and Fern and of Pinus. For distinction Students will be expected to shew also a practical acquaintance with the physiology, the life history (including development), and the structure (morphology and minute anatomy) of the following organisms:-Saccharomyces (Yeast). Protococcus. Mucor (Mould). Chara. Fern. Flowering plant (Conifer, Monocotyledon, Dicotyledon). Students should bring a pocket lens and a dissecting needle.

II (a) PRACTICAL CHEMICAL ANALYSIS. Credit will be given for well chosen experiments, good observations precisely recorded, and well-drawn inferences from them. A list of apparatus and chemicals will be sent on application to the General Secretary. II (b) The elementary principles of STATICS DYNAMICS AND HYDROSTATICS, as illustrated by simple experiments, common observation, or the action of well

The following elements and their compounds are to be omitted:-Beryllium, Cadmium, Caesium, Cerium, Didymium, Erbium, Gallium, Glucinum, Indium, Iridium, Lanthanum, Lithium, Molybdenum, Niobium, Osmium, Palladium, Rhodium, Rubidium, Ruthenium, Sama ium, Scandium, Selenium, Tantalum, Tellurium, Terbium, Thallium, Thorium, Titanium, Tungsten, Uranium, Vanadium, Ytterbium, Yttrium, Zirconium.

known machines. II (c) The fundamental laws of HEAT and the experiments which illustrate them. II (d) The fundamental laws of ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM and the experiments which illustrate them II (e) PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY in the wider sense. Questions will be set on the present physical condition of the earth, and the physical agencies modifying it or affecting the conditions of life upon it. The paper in II (e) may be taken either on Friday or on Saturday.

To pass in the Section, Students must pass in one of the subjects marked I or in two of the subjects marked II; they may enter for not more than three subjects, not more than two of which may be from either of the groups marked I and II; they may not take both I (b) and I (c).

Section G. DRAWING, (a) FREEHAND, (b) from MODELS, (c) in PERSPECTIVE, and (d) IMITATIVE COLOURING (water-colour). To pass in the section, Students must satisfy the Examiners in (a) and in one at least of the other divisions.

Section H. MUSIC. Questions will be set on Notation; on Scales, Clefs, Keys, Intervals, Time; on the Marks and Terms generally employed in Music; on Cadences; on Triads and Chords of the Seventh and their Inversions; Single Suspensions; rhythmical Phrasing. Exercises will be set (on the above Chords) in not more than four parts, in which the highest or the lowest part or both will be given.

GILCHRIST SCHOLARSHIP.

IN 1869 the Trustees of the Gilchrist Educational Trust decided to extend the operation of the Trust to the encouragement of education in the British West India Colonies; and under that decision a Scholarship of the value of £100 per annum and tenable for three years was annually awarded to the highest among those Candidates, at the January Matriculation Examination carried on in the West India Colonies who passed either in the Honours or in the First Division.

Jamaica was one of the centres of examination for the West India Colonies, and examinations were held in January of each year whenever Candidates presented themselves, and under that scheme the Gilchrist Scholarship was won in 1883 by Mr. E. T. Lea of Potsdam School, Jamaica, who passed in the Honours' Division, and in 1884 by Mr. E. R. C. Earle of the Jamaica High School who also passed in the Honours' Division. In 1885 the Scholarship was taken by a competitor from Barbados. The Trustees announced their intention of withdrawing the benefits of the Trust from the West Indies after the examination of 1885. Memorials against this course, however, were sent to the Trustees from the Jamaica Schools Commission and the Jamaica Institute, strongly supported by Sir Henry Norman, Governor of Jamaica, and similar representations were also made by the Governors of Barbados and Trindad, pointing out the great improvement that had lately taken place in education in these colonies; and in deference to these representations the Gilchrist Trustees decided not to withdraw entirely the benefits hitherto offered but to substitute for the Scholarship hitherto offered annually, a Scholarship of the same amount (£100) to be offered for competition triennially and to be held, as under the old scheme, for a term of three years. Later on the Gilchrist Trustees sent out a circular letter asking whether in the opinion of the local authorities it would not be more conducive to the general benefit if the Scholarship were to be tenable in the colonies, and the Schools Commission, to whom this recommendation was referred, warmly supported this idea and included it in its Scheme for the extension of University teaching to Jamaica, to which reference has been made under the article entitled "Jamaica Scholarships." This proposal was forwarded to the Trustees for their consideration. The Triennial Scholarship referred to above was restricted to the colonies mentioned, namely, Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad, and was first competed for in January, 1888. It was won by Mr. E. E. Murray, of York Castle High School, Jamaica, who was placed above the first in the original Honours' List of the London University Matriculation Examination.

Before this Scholarship had been competed for, the Gilchrist Trustees had notified to the colonies in question that this Triennial Scholarship granted to Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad would be withdrawn after the award to be made on the examination in January, 1888. The Trustees stated however that they would further consider

the subject in the Spring of 1888, and that should they then, or at any future time, institute any other Scholarship or Scholarships for those or any of those places, information of the same would be thereupon communicated to the proper authorities, together with the particulars of the conditions on which they might propose that such Scholarship should be held; but nothing further has as yet been heard in the matter. There is therefore at present no Gilchrist Scholarship offered for competition in any of the West India Islands.

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE LOCAL EXAMINATION.

An important step in the advance of higher education was taken in 1882 when the Governors of the Jamaica Institute determined to make arrangements that Jamaica should be one of the centres for the Local Examinations held by the University of Cambridge. The examination was held in Kingston for the first time in December, 1882, and has since been held annually in December.

The examination for the Scholarship instituted by Sir Anthony Musgrave is valuable as affording for the first time a standard by which Jamaica Schoolmasters and Schoolboys can measure their success against that obtained in other countries. But it only touches a very few of the best educated boys in the island, inasmuch as to pass in it a boy must succeed in every subject out of a list including Latin, Greek, French or German, and Natural Philosophy, with other subjects; and some other test is wanted for the ordinary boy who leaves school early to go into business or the like. This want is supplied by the Cambridge Local Examinations which are divided into two divisions, one for Senior and one for Junior Students, according as the Candidates are under 18 years of age or under 16 respectively. From the regulations* it is clear that, whilst taking honours and gaining the mark of distinction require considerable knowledge and power and imply that a boy is well educated and distinguished amongst his competitors, a pass can be obtained by any boy who has made proper use of the opportunities afforded him in any school giving sound teaching even in English subjects. It is only fair to add that in the large majority of cases even a pass implies more than this, and that the majority of those who "satisfy the Examiners" do so in Latin, Mathematics, or some modern language.

The following are the Class Lists† for December, 1891, so far as Jamaica is concerned :

T. S. Eden (distinguished in Mathematics), York Castle High School.

I. D. Stubbs (distinguished in French), Jamaica High School.

CLASS II.

CLASS III.

E. C. Cumming, Jamaica High School.

H. U. Hall, Jamaica High School.

S. W. Royes, Jamaica High School.

W. Simms, Jamaica High School.

A. P. S. Sutherland, Jamaica High School.

S. Lockett (distinguished in Religious Knowledge), York Castle.

S. J. Marchalleck, York Castle High School.

L. D. C King, Potsdam School.

J. A. Mullings (distinguished in Mathematics), Potsdam School.

F. A. Rosado, Kingston Collegiate School.

A. I. Wookey, Ridgemount Private School.

* The regulations and subjects for 1893 can be obtained from the Local Secretary, Rev. W. Pratt, M.A., Kingston P. O.

For previous Class Lists see previous Handbooks.

Satisfied the Examiners:

H. J. Barned, Jamaica High School.
G. S. Husband, Jamaica High School.

T. H. Smith, Jamaica High School.

A. J. W. Harty (between 16 and 18) Jamaica High School.
C. G. McGregor (between 16 and 18), Jamaica High School.
F. N. Pullar (between 16 and 18), Jamaica High School.

D. H. DeSouza, York Castle High School.

G. A. Hart, York Castle High School.

K. W. Hart, Kingston Collegiate School.

A. D. Melhado, Kingston Collegiate School.

W. Morrison Kingston Collegiate School.

H. V. Myers, Kingston Collegiate School.

L. D. H. Baugh, (in Preliminary, Religious Knowledge and English only), Kingston Collegiate School.

G. Elliott (between 16 and 18), Kingston Collegiate School.

G. A,Gauntlett (between 16 and 18), (in Preliminary, Religious Knowledge and English only), Kingston Collegiate School.

T. A. Ashman (between 16 and 18), (in Preliminary, Religious Knowledge and English only), Kingston Collegiate School.

W. H. Coke, Potsdam School.

J. O. Wright, Manning's Free School.

E. G. Casseres, Kingston Academy.

GIRLS.

L. L. McDougal, Kingston Academy.
A. C. J. Hollar, Barbican High School.

G. L. Depass (between 16 and 18). Barbican High School

THE JAMAICA HIGH SCHOOL.

PROVISION is made by Law 34 of 1879, the Schools' Commission Law, for the establishment of a School to be called "The Jamaica High School," at which there shall be provided a good liberal education. Free education and maintenance is by the same law to be provided for a limited number of Scholars to be called "Foundationers," and the School is to be opened to all religious denominations.

Under section 41 of the above-mentioned law " The Jamaica Free School" (erroneously called in the law "The Walton Free School," but the error has been amended by Law 13 of 1882) and all funds and property thereof are absolutely vested in the Commission to be established under the said law. The Jamaica Schools Commission accordingly now hold all the funds and property of what was the Jamaica Free School for the purposes of the Jamaica High School.

The main buildings at Hope, in the parish of St. Andrew, between four and five miles from Kingston, were opened by His Excellency Sir Henry Wylie Norman, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., C.I.E., on the 9th of July, 1885. They contain accommodation for the Headmaster and his family, the Second and Third Masters, Matron and servants, and fifty boys. A College, the foundation stone of which was laid by Lady Blake on the 9th July, 1889, has been opened in connection with the School. (See article on University College.)

Regulations have been framed by the Commissioners for the management of the High School, of which those of most general interest are the following :

Scholars.

The School shall consist of the following classes of boys :1.-Foundationers.

A. Drax scholars. These are elected from the parish of St. Ann.

Having regard to the provisions contained in section 33 of the Schools Commission Law, 1879, and to the fact that heretofore the inhabitants of the parish of St. Ann have, in conformity with the Trusts of Drax's Bequest, enjoyed the privilege of ten nominations to Walton School, the Commission has resolved that whenever a vacancy or vacancies has or have to be filled up in the High School, if at the time the number of St. Ann's Foundationers at the said School is below ten the said vacancy or so many of the said vacancies (if there be more than one) as may be necessary to raise the number of St. Ann's Foundationers to ten, be appropriated to St. Ann's boys, who shall be called Drax Scholars, provided that any come forward who reach such standard of education as may be determined on; and that otherwise such vacancy or vacancies be filled up by the most eligible Candidates from other parishes.

B. Foundationers other than Drax Scholars. These shall be elected from parishes other than St. Ann's. Their number is at present fixed at thirteen. II.-Holders of Endowed Schools' Special Scholarships to be created. III.-Holders of Special weekly Boarder Scholarships to be created. IV.-Paying Term Boarders.

V.-Paying Weekly Boarders.

Regulations concerning the Admission of Foundationers.

Foundationers will be elected by the Commission, subject to the results of an Examination and to their meeting the following requirements:

1. Boys will be eligible as Candidates for admission as Foundationers only in case of the inability of their parents to provide a liberal education for their children. 2. Their age must be between 9 and 15 on the day of examination.

3. Satisfactory testimony must be furnished as to their good character. The following is the Schedule of subjects in which boys admitted as Candidates with qualifications 1, 2 and 3 will be required to pass a Competitive Examination :— Boys from 9 to 11 will be examined in Reading from the Fifth Standard Reading Book, Dictation from the same, the first four rules of Arithmetic, simple and compound, the outlines of the Geography of Jamaica and of Europe, the classifying of words under their parts of speech and the leading facts of the Old and New Testaments.

Between 11 and 12 boys will be further examined in Latin, carried as far as the end of the 25th Exercise in Smith's Principia, and vulgar fractions, practice, proportion and interest in Arithmetic.

Between 12 and 13 they will be further examined in Latin, as far as the end of Part 1st in Smith's Principia with easy Translation, in Elementary French, in Decimals, in Arithmetic, in Elementary Algebra and in Euclid, Book I, props., 1-32.

Between 13 and 14 they will be examined in the outlines of English History, Latin including the whole of Smith's Principia and translation of Cæsar or some equivalent book, in French Grammar (not including irregular verbs), translation and exercises, in Algebra, fractions and simple equations, and in Euclid, Book I.

Between 14 and 15 they will be examined in English History, Latin Grammar, translation and exercises, French Grammar, translation and exercises, Arithmetic, Algebra to end of Quadratic Equations and Euclid, Books I and II.

N.B.-Success in every subject is not compulsory, but no boy above 12 will be elected who does not show fair knowledge and accuracy in the elements of Latin and the ordinary rules of Arithmetic.

In the case of boys above 12 the examination will take two days.

Special Scholarships from certain Endowed Schools.

With the view of enabling the funds of some of the Endowed Schools (which do not attempt to give a higher education) to be utilized in such a way as to secure their appropriation for purposes more in keeping with the intentions of the original bequests than the maintenance of Primary Schools, and at the same time placing the advantages of the High School within reach of specially deserving scholars from the parishes in which such Endowed Schools are situated, it is deemed desirable that Scholarships from the said Schools should be founded, tenable at the High School. It was accordingly proposed that the Boarde of the several Local Trusts should be recommended to provide the necessary funds for these Scholarships out of the Trust income at present expended on primary education, so far as the same can legally be done. Such Scholarships would be available only to boys residing within the area which would entitle them to enjoy the benefits of the said Local Endowed Schools; and the general qualifications for competition for such Scholarships would be fixed by the Local Trustees, provided that the boys nominated by them must be prepared at least to pass such Examination as is required by boys coming into the High School as paying boarders.

It is considered that it will be an essential part of the above plan for establishing these Scholarships from Endowed Schools that the Government should consent to make, through the Education Department, such grants-in-aid to the Elementary Schools now maintained out of local endowments as may be sufficient to cover the amounts annually expended by the Trustees in Scholarships; provided that such grants-in-aid do not exceed the amount of grants which such Elementary Schools would be entitled to, if maintained in the ordinary manner.

Weekly Boarders' Scholarships.

Arrangements will be made, as soon as possible, for Special Scholarships for a limited number of weekly boarders, the value of such Scholarships being such as to cover the whole or a greater portion of the actual expenses of a boy at the School.

Candidates for admission to these Special Scholarships must meet the following conditions:

I. The Commission must be satisfied that the means of their parents or guardians are so limited as to prevent their furnishing the boys with the advantages of this School without the assistance of this Scholarship.

II. They must be between the ages of 12 and 14.