INDIA FOREST 4. What is the structure of the following fruits: Fig. Pineapple. Orange. Apple. Acorn. Blackberry. Date. Cherry. 5. Give an account of the phænomena of heat production, as manifested by plants. 6. Give an account of the Equisetaceæ, and especially describe their reproduction. 7. What English phanerogamous plants are parasitic? Point out any peculiarities of structure connected with their parasitic habit of life. 8. What are the main features of the Flora of oceanic islands? 9. Give the characters of the following orders: Boraginæ. Cruciferæ. Malvaceæ. Cucurbitaceæ. Primulaceae. Liliaceæ. 10. Refer the following plants to their several orders: Clematis. Corncockle. Woodruff. Nightshade. Cowwheat. Sage. Elder. Tulip. Waterviolet. Whortleberry. Sage. SURVEYING Time allowed, 3 hours. 1. How many square links are contained in a square Gunter's chair, 2. Name the different parts of a theodolite, and their respective uses. 4. Explain the meaning of the term "parallax." 5. Explain how you would triangulate a small district, and the considerations which would influence you in selecting the trigonometrical stations. 6. In chaining a triangle in the field, what precautions would you take to ensure accuracy? 7. On level ground how may the distance to any inaccessible point be measured, without any instrument for taking angles? 8. Explain the construction of the common Y spirit level, and the adjustments required. 9. Explain how you would level in one operation between two stations 400 feet apart, with a level and staves. 10. In some levelling operations a correction for curvature becomes necessary, explain when such a correction ought to be made, as well as its nature and amount in general terms. FREEHAND DRAWING. Monday, 25th November 1872. 10 A.M. to 1 P.M. N.B.-Your paper must not be torn, nor must you make use of any other; use only one side. The drawing must be entirely freehand; no mechanical aid of any kind is permitted. 1. Draw in light and shade with pencil the wooden ring before you, you can see through it; the scale being the actual size of the 2. Copy with pen and ink in accurate fac-simile the woodcut fixed on In this example you may use a pencil for rough sketching, but do not ink over pencil lines more than you can help, as that destroys all the freedom of the drawing. 3. Make as complete a drawing as you can of the pine cone supplied for the purpose. You can execute this example in colour or sepia or pencil, as you think you can represent it best. INDIA FOREST PLAN DRAWING. PART I. Time allowed, 3 hours. 1. The sides of a triangle are respectively 1338, 852, and 1244 links; find its area in acres, roods, and perches. 2. Construct a scale of 14 with a vernier attached reading 4 chains 32 links. 3. Complete the following extract from field level book, with the totals; and plot the line of which it is the record to a horizontal scale of and a vertical scale of 396. INDIA FOREST DEPARTMENT. Nov. 1872. 4. Lay out a rectangular plot of ground of 5 acres, the length and breadth being as 4 to 3. 5. Plot the traverse survey recorded on the accompanying paper marked A, to a scale of 2 chains to an inch. PLAN DRAWING. PART II. Time allowed, 3 hours. The accompanying plan C is to be copied; all roads, houses, and water coloured, and woods, marshes, &c. to be distinguished by conventional signs. COLLEGE, 1872. 7.-EXAMINATION PAPERS SET AT THE ARRANGEMENTS for the OPEN COMPETITION of 1872, to be held at the NOTICES. 1. This paper should be carefully preserved, and produced when required during the course of the Examination. 2. It is requested that the Candidate will acknowledge the receipt of these Instructions by writing his name on the outside of the enclosed envelope, and returning it through the post. 3. It is requested that any Candidate intending to withdraw will give early notice of such intention, and return this Paper. 4. On the first day of the Examination, Candidates will be required to state on a form which will be placed before them their addresses during the Examination, and they are requested thereafter to keep the Commissioners informed of all changes in their address until they have received the announcement of the result of the Examination. 5. The result of the Examination will probably be communicated by letter to each Candidate about the end of July. The successful Candidates will be required to attend in London, immediately after this announcement, for the purpose of being medically examined. 6. Candidates will be required to leave their hats, overcoats, umbrellas, and any books or papers which they may have brought with them in the room provided for this purpose, before proceeding to the Examination Rooms. 7. The Examination will in each case begin at the time named in the following List, but the door of the Examination Room will be kept open for half an hour afterwards, in order that Candidates may not suffer from accidental delays. Candidates arriving after the expiration of that half hour will not be admitted. 8. No Candidate will be allowed to quit the Examination Room on any day until the expiration of half an hour from the time fixed for the commencement of the Examination. 9. Candidates should be careful to write their names on the outside of each book sent in to the Examiners. 10. No Candidate who has left the Examination Room during the hours assigned to paper work will be permitted to return to the paper which he has quitted. 11. Candidates wishing for explanation of the meaning of any of the questions before them may apply to the examiners. With this exception, perfect silence is to be preserved in the Examination Room; and any Candidate guilty of disorderly or improper conduct in or about the Room will be liable to be excluded from the Examination. 12. Any Candidate detected in the use of a book or manuscript brought with him for his assistance, or in copying from the papers of any other Candidate, or in giving or receiving assistance of any description, will be regarded as disqualified, and his name will be removed from the List. INDIAN C. E. 13. Candidates are to bring with them their Instruments and Drawing sioners. Civil Service Commission, Cannon Row, S.W. May 1872. TIME TABLE of the EXAMINATION of CANDIDATES for ADMISSION to the *In these subjects there will be an oral examination, the time of which will be notified to the candidates who take them up. † N.B.-The Examinations in Greek on July 13th will be at the Office of the Civil Service Commission, Cannon Row, Westminster. |