Books, etc. Required on Entry.
Sextant, box of mathematical instruments, spyglass, French grammar and dictionary (including sea terms), a book on navigation, Euclid’s Elements, geography, book on the use of mathematical and nautical instruments, book on the steam engine, Colenso’s Arithmetic and Algebra, Jeans’ Trigonometry.
The examination on leaving the training ship is to include all the subjects of the examination on entry except Latin, and the following in addition:—
Arithmetic: involution, extraction of square root.
Algebra: simple equations.
The elements of geometry.
Plane trigonometry, including the solution of practical and useful problems.
Spherical trigonometry: solution of triangles, and application to nautical astronomy.
Navigation: day’s work—meridian altitude, longitude by chronometer, to be able to explain and use the sextant, azimuth compass, artificial horizon, and theodolite.
French: any selection from the first fifty lessons in Ollendorf, and to read, parse, and translate a passage.