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will then receive commissions in the Royal Artil-
lery
or Royal Engineers. If, however, they should
be found unable to qualify themselves within three
years in their professional studies or to acquire a
sufficient proficiency in military exercises, they will
be subject to removal.
VII. Each cadet on joining will be required to
pay a sum of £25 to cover the expense of uniform,
books, &c., and to produce the following articles,
which must afterwards be kept up at his own
expense, viz. :—nine white shirts, four flannel
waistcoats, nine pair of socks, six pair of drawers,
nine pocket handkerchiefs, six towels, one clothes-
brush, two combs and brush, one Bible and prayer-
book, one looking-glass, one portmanteau. He will
also be required to pay a contribution of £62 10s.,
payable in advance, for each half year of the time
during which he remains under instruction. The
annual contributions, however, for sons and orphans
of naval and military officers will be regulated at
the following rates, as heretofore :
For sons of Admirals and of Generals having
regiments, £BO.
11 'For sons of Generals without regiments, £7O.

For sons of Captains and Commanders of the
Navy, and of Colonels and Regimental Field
Officers of the Army, £6O.
For sons of all Officers of the Army and Navy
under the above ranks, 140.

For sons of Officers of the Army and Navy who
have died in the service, and whose families are
proved to be left in pecuniary distress, L2O.
The sons of General Officers who are paid only
on their commissions as Field Officers will pay the
same contribution as the sons of Field Officers.

The sons of officers on full or half pay will pay
alike ; but the sons of officers who have voluntarily
retired on half pay, or received the difference, will
only be admitted on the terms prescribed for' the
sons of private gentlemen—viz., £125 per annum.
The sons of officers of the civil departments of
the army and navy, of officers of the permanent
Militia staff, and of adjutants of the Volunteer
force, are admissible to the academy upon the same
terms as those prescribed for naval and military
officers.

The sons of Indian naval and military officers will
be admitted on the same terms as the sons of officers
of the Queen's service.

The sons of professors at the Staff and Royal
Military Colleges, at the Royal College, Addiscombe,
£6O.
The sons of masters at the above institutions, £4O.

VIII. Any gentleman who wishes to present him-
self at one of the half-yearly examinations must
send in his name to the Military Secretary at the
Horse Guards one month before the time of exami-
nation, forwarding with his application to be noted
the following papers :-
1. An extract from the register of his baptism,l
or, in default of that, a declaration before a magi-
strate, taken by one of his parents, giving his exact
age. _ . .

-2, A certificate of good moral character, signed
by a clergyman of the parish to which he belongs,
and by the tutor or head of the school or college at
which he has received his education for at least the
two preceding years, or such other proof of good
moral character as will be satisfactory to the Com-
mander-in-Chief.

3. A statement of the subjects of examination in
which (in addition to mathematics) he may desire
to be examined.

A candidate who has been examined before, when
he applies for leave to present himself again, will
only be required to forward the list of subjects he
selects, and a certificate from his tutor or the head
of his school, &c., for the interval between the two
examinations,

IX. The candidates will be inspected by military
surgeons on the first day of the examination, in
order that it may be ascertained that they are free
from any bodily defects or ailments calculated to
interfere with the performance of military duties.
Extreme short sight, or any serious defect of
vision, is regarded as a disqualification.

W. F. FORSTER, Military Secretary.
SYLLABUS OF EXAMINATION IN THE DIFFERENTIAL

AND INTEGRAL CALCULUS.
DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS.

The meaning of Differentiation.
The Differentiation of Elementary Functions of
one Independent Variable.
The theorems of Taylor and Maclaurin, with their
applications.
The theory of Maxima and Minima, with its
applications.
The equations to the Tangents, Normals, and
Asymptotes of Plane Curves.
The curvature of Plane Curves and their radii of
curvature and evolutes.

The Differential Co-efficients of the Arcs and
Areas of Plane Curves to rectangular and polar Co-
ordinates, and of the surfaces and volumes of solids
of revolution.