Calendar: 1877-1878 Page 615

ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES 613 FIRST YEAR Define the following terms -range of fossils-strike- unconformable strata-dip-estuarine and fluviatile beds Explain the distinction between fossil and mineral Under what aspects are fossils presented Add any remarks which seem to bear upon the subject Mention the formations in which fossil insects and plants have been discovered State the reasoning by which Belemnite is supposed to have been portion of an animal allied to the Cephalopoda Describe the various parts of the shell of the common Nautilus and show that modifications of the type-form have been created at different eras Do the lower members of the carboniferous series of rocks offer any evidence of their having been deposited under altered physical conditions in the areas now represented by South Wales the Midland Counties and the south of Scotland What intimations of the nature of the soil are given when Ostrea deltoidea Belemnites minimus Perna Mulleti and Mi- craster corangiunum occur in situ few feet below the surface of fields From what part of the Wealden formation was ironstone formerly dug How were the Wealden beds originated are they found in the Mesozoic or the Palffiozoic group of rocks It is proposed to sink shaft for coal at three different places Α and At the surface rock contains fragments of Cephalaspis at specimens of Grypba incurva at examples of Ananchytes ovatus Which of these three places is the most favourably situated for the purpose in view Give reasons and sections 10 Name and describe few of the fossils found in the Cretaceous beds