1. Into how many divisions has science separated nature?

2. What is Geology?

3. What does Geology declare?

4. How does Geology prove the evolution of the earth from chaos? 5. In seeking the origin of created matter, what paths has Geology traveled?

6. What is meant by the inorganic world?

7. What has Geology gleaned from the inorganic world?

8. What has Geology proved from plants and animals concerning the earth from its earliest age?

9. Does science establish a collision between Geology and Revelation? 10. What was the supposed condition of the earth at its beginning? 11. What are the proofs of that condition?

12. How did the earth become solid?

13. How many and what are the great ages distinguished by Geologists?

14. What is meant by the Archean age e?

15. What is meant by the Silurian age, or age of mollusks?

16. What is meant by the Devonian age, or age of fishes?

17. What is the Carboniferous age?

18. What is the Reptilian age?

19. What is the Mammalian age?

20. What is the Quaternary age, or age of man?

21. Into how many substances does Geology divide the materials of the earth's structure, and what are they?

22. Define rock in a Geological sense? 23. What are the constituents of Rock? 24. Give the classification of Rock?

25. What is Sedimentary Rock?

26. What is Igneous or Volcanic Rock?

27. What is Metamorphic Rock?

28. Do the above divisions embrace chemical and mineralogical Rock

33. What are Stratified Rocks?

34. What are Unstratified Rocks?

35. What is Drift, and in what periods does it occur?

36. What is meant by the earth's crust?

[crust.

37. Give the present opinion of Geologists concerning depth of earth's 38. Can the thickness of the earth's crust be very definitely determined? 39. What is the physical condition of the mass of the earth?

40. Has the law been found determining the compression of the earth's solids?

PALEONTOLOGY.

41. What is Paleontology?

42. With what substances does paleontology deal?

43. In the Geological sense, what does the term fossil mean?

44. Are fossils restricted to age?

45. Are fossils restricted to their state of preservation?

46. Give some reasons why fossil records are so scanty, and at the best imperfect?

47. What great law of nature finds illustration in this?

48. Where have fossils been found in the best state of preservation ? 49. Where has been gleaned the most valuable information regarding the highest order of mammalian life, including the pre-historic race? 50. What part of the sea is best adapted for the preservation of fossils? 51. What light did the "Challenger" expedition throw as to the character of the centre of the ocean bed?

52. Regarding the preservation of fossils, which are the most perishable?

53. Into how many types may fossilization be divided?

54. Give examples regarding the first class of fossils? 55. What process produces the molds of fossils?

56. What is the process of petrefaction?

57. What fossils surpass all others in value, and why?

58. What have the marine Mollusca been called by Geologists ?

59. What purposes do fossils serve in science other than their record of

organic being upon the earth?

60. How are fossils a help in understanding the geography of the past?

61. How do fossils aid in the classification of Flora and Fauna life?

62. How do fossils demonstrate the changes which time has made in climates?

63. How do fossils establish a geological chronology?

64. Upon what fundamental law is geological chronology based?

65. Explain what is meant by the above law?

66. Why will not rock strata, unaided by fossil deposits, determine geological chronology?

67. How have fossils been made to prove the relative ages of strata? 68. Does each formation contain its distinctive fossils?

69. How can different parts of the earth's stratified formation be brought into harmony with each other?

70. What general law can be laid down regarding fossils?

71. Can fossils be relied upon in deciding the chronology of the rocks?

72. How do geologists overcome some of the imperfections of record?

73. What is the theory of evolution?

74. What do some geologists conceive to be "the general law of nature?" 75. What is the Darwinian theory?

76. Upon what is this theory based?

77. What is the testimony of the rocks as regards evolution?

78. Name one important obstacle towards demonstrating the theory of evolution?

79. Where does paleontological history become of the deepest interest, and why?

ANTHROPOLOGY.

80. Define Anthropology?

81. What are the characteristics of the Age of Man?

82. What has been the supposed period of man's existence upon earth? 83. Where is found the most ancient human portrait that is known? 84. What is now the ascribed age of man on earth?

85. How long does geological time now extend?

86. How far does man reach back into this lapse of time?

87. Who were the mound builders of America?

88. What creature comes nearest to man in physical structure?

89. What particular difference between apes and man in regard to form? 90. What member of man's body is practically different from that of the ape?

[apes?

91. What is the practical difference between the brain of man and of 92. Where may we place the great mental gap between man and beast? 93. Is there any comparison between instinct in animals and mind in man? [animals?

94. How does man's course from life to death compare with that of lower 95. Upon what framework has been raised human science, knowledge, art and law?

96. What is the rule as regards stature of the women of all races?

97. What one important thought may be gleaned from research of anthropologists?

98. What Christian belief does Anthropology strengthen?

99. What is meant by the terms mind and soul?

100. What is Life, and how is it divided?

101. Define Animal and Vegetable life?

102. How does man differ from the lower order of animals? 103. What is death?