The following Extracts from the Reports of the Examiners will show the character of the Examination, and may be useful guides to future Candidates.

Mathematics.-Rev. Canon Heaviside, M.A.

As a whole, the result is so like the results of the two or three preceding Examinations of the same kind, that whether in the way of praise or disparagement the observations I have made in preceding reports might be repeated now. The papers in Section I have been very well done by a considerable number; the papers in Section II and in Mixed Mathematics have been well done by a few of the Candidates, whilst many have sent in papers on these subjects which go to prove that they were not in a condition to proceed to such advanced reading. These remarks apply to the Mixed Mathematics generally, but with even greater force to the subjects of the Differential and Integral Calculus; so few of the Candidates have really mastered the elements of the Calculus, that it might be displaced from the Examination without sensibly affecting the position of those few who have in any degree mastered its difficulties. I still think it would be for the benefit of the Candidates themselves if the marks on Section II and Mixed Mathematics were not allowed to count in the general total, unless some fraction, say one-sixth of the whole number of marks allotted to these papers, was obtained. This might discourage the propensity which the Tutors seem to have of forcing on the Candidates into higher reading before they have mastered the elementary subjects. It has been my opinion for some time, that, as regards the Mathematics of Section I, an average has been reached in these admission Examinations for Woolwich, which will not be materially altered so long as the present regulations remain unchanged; and as regards the subjects of Section I, I do not think any change could be introduced with advantage. Following the course I have adopted for some time, I subjoin a statistical comparison between the Examination just concluded and the Examination of the preceding January.