APPENDIX E. Manners, Customs, and Commercial relations of the various countries; the use of the globes, and the construction of maps. History.-Tytler's Epitome of Modern History; History of the Middle Ages. III. Report of Head Inspector on Maritime Schools. Arithmetic-Slate Arithmetic.—The operations in the Rules in Commercial Arithmetic, and in Involution and Evolution, with their theory. Mental Arithmetic.-Pestalozzi's Frac tional Arithmetic. Mechanics.-Statics and Dynamics from Hann's Treatise on Practical Mechanics; with the subjects in the first year's course. Geometry.-Euclid, the remainder of the Sixth and the Eleventh Book. The first year's course more perfectly. Algebra.-Colenso to the end; Exponential Theorem; Logarithmic Series; Elements of the Theory of Equations; First Principles of the Differential Calculus; Differentiation. Trigonometry.-Spherical Trigonometry, theoretical and practical. Nautical Astronomy.-The investigation of the principal rules contained in Riddle's Navigation. THIRD YEAR. Grammar. To explain the difficulties and anomalies of English Syntax, and to be able readily to refer any poetical piece to the class to which it belongs. -- Composition. To be able to write an Essay on some subject of general interest, or on the Art of Teaching. Literature. To have fully mastered at least twelve of Bacon's Essays, and the first three Books of Paradise Lost; and to have a fair acquaintance with the great Authors of English Literature from the time of Elizabeth to the present. Geography. A more accurate acquaintance with Physical Geography, and with the causes of the more obvious Atmospheric Changes; the Geology of the British Islands; a knowledge of the distribution of organized beings; with skill in imparting such lessons as may most interest and instruct a class. History. The History of Modern Europe; the Social and Constitutional History of Britain and of its Colonial Empire, with the Biography of its most distinguished men. Arithmetic.-General expertness in working examples, combined with skill in explaining and writing out the reason of arithmetical operations. Mechanics. The practical application of Hydrostatics, in addition to the business in the first and second years' course, with skill in communicating information on the subject to a class. Geometry. A sound knowledge of the preceding course; Analytical Geometry and Conic Sections. Algebra.-Its higher parts, as stated in second year's course, more perfectly; the Differential and Integral Calculus, with APPENDIX E. their application to Mechanics and Physics. III. Report Navigation.-Nautical Surveying, with construction of of Head Charts; observatious with the Sextant. Astronomy.-Selected parts of Hymer's Astronomy. Inspector on Schools. APPENDIX F. Number and Tonnage of Vessels entered inwards in the Ports of Ireland, for each of the four years ending January 5th, 1851. Number of Vessels built, and number of Vessels registered in Shipping intercourse between Great Britain and Ireland, showing the Number and Tonnage of Vessels which entered inwards and cleared outwards with cargoes, at the several Ports of the United Kingdom, during the last five years. |