Calendar: 1854-1855 Page 380

382 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT Give the formulae of alcohol ether aldehyd and acetic acid Describe the preparation of acetic acid Explain and illustrate the doctrine of substitution in chemical compounds What are the alkaloids of the cinchonaceae How are the two principal ones obtained What characters distinguish them from each other and how are they separated What characters distinguish oxalic citric tartaric and acetic acids from each other Describe the preparation of oxalic acid Mention the principal varieties of urinary calculi What is the method of obtaining allexan By what reactions is uric acid identified 10 Enumerate the principal fatty acids What is the form in which they occur in the fats Describe the general method of preparing them 11 What is the composition of the bile By what means may we ascertain the presence of the colouring principle and of the characteristic component of this secretion in other fluids 12 Illustrate the terms Atomic Volume and Atomic Weight and explain the theory to which they refer IV -iSotann Describe the structure of endogenous stems and roots State the principal arguments in favour of the descent of the sap Give an account of the process of fertilization in flowering plants Enumerate the principal Orders of Achlamydeous Exogens and mention their chief distinctive characters To what Orders do the daisy the beet-root the parsley ami the turnip belong-and why --fHatcrta fflrtiica antf CljcrapruticS State the botanical names of the trees which yield the different kinds of Cinchona bark that is of brown grey yellow