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SCHOLARSHIP EXAMINATIONS.
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Mental Philosophy.—Abercombie's Intellectual Powers, as far as the end of the first Division of the fourth Section of Part III.; "Of the use of Reason in the investigation of Truth." (Calcutta Edition, page 161.)

Mathematics.

Euclid. Algebra. Plane Trigonometry.

Junior Scholarships.

Literature.

Prose.—Watts on the Improvement of the Mind, (Encyclopædia Bengalensis.)

Poetry.—Goldsmith's Traveller and Deserted Village.

Grammar.—Crombie's Etymology and Syntax, Part II.

History.—Stewart's History of Bengal.

Geography and Map Drawing.

Mathematics.

Euclid, Books VI. and XI.

Algebra, to the end of Simple Equations.

Arithmetic, and Elements of the Theory of Numbers.

Bengali.

Isser Chunder Shurma's Betalpunchabinsatee, 2nd Edition.

Shama Churn Sircar's Grammar, Parts I. and II.

4. The senior and junior scholarship answers will be examined by the gentlemen who set the questions.

The Arabic scholarship answers will be examined by the Principal of the Calcutta Mudrissa.

The Sanscrit scholarship answers will be examined by Major G. T. Marshall.

All reports of the results of the examinations are to be furnished before the end of the long vacation.

The examination in the Town Hall will be superintended by the Council of Education. The Secretary to the Council will daily give out the questions, and collect the answers, assisted by the other member of the Council of Education on duty.

The scholarship and other rules promulgated in 1846 were re-published, as no change had occured either in the scholarship standard, or in the mode of conducting the examination.