Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1871 [PAGE 52]

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44 large Herbarium of dried plants, collected by the Powell expeditions, which has been largely increased from other sources. It has Lignarium exhibiting woods in section, also papier mache flowers, and fruits of gigantic size, made by the celebrated Auzoux, of Paris, a pink, a papillonaceus flower, a cherry, a strawberry, a pea pod with peas, a vetch legume, a grain of wheat, etc. These gigantic specimens are dissected so as to exhibit clearly even the most minute organs and tissues. The Green Houses, and the Arboretum and Botanical Garden, for which preparations are already made, afford also unbounded opportunities for examining the living plants in process of growth. The Zoological Department has a human skeleton, purchased in Paris, a manikin made by Dr. Auzoux, skeletons of a cow and other mammals and birds, stuffed preparations of a large number of birds, mammals, fishes, reptiles, etc., embracing bears, wolves, foxes, beavers, wolverines, prairie dogs, etc., birds of prey, songsters, etc.; a dissected horse's Jeg and hoof, a dissected eye, a trachea and vocal apparatus, in papier mache, with numerous French anatomical plates of great beauty. It has also collections of shells, fossils and insects, and a full suite of Entomological specimens is in preparation by Dr. Le Baron, the State Entomologist, who is required by the law of the State to make such collections for the University. The Geology is illustrated by a full suite of specimens from the State Geological Survey. It has still larger collections in Mineralogy and Palaeontology, etc., received or purchased from several sources, with preparations of ores, etc. The College has also a large double camera, or magic lantern, with apparatus for dissolving views, with a large collection of fine paintings for the illustration of Astronomy, Geology, Zoology and History. The collections and apparatus are constantly increasing by purchases, donations and manufacture. The course of studies recommended is as follows :

FIRST YEAR—First Term.—Geometry, Latin or English, Chemistry, United States History. Second Term.—Botany, Geometry and Algebra, Latin or English Literature. Third Term.— Botany, Analytical Chemistry, Latin, or English Literature. SECOND YEAR—First Term.—Vegetable Physiology, Zoology, Trigonometry, German. Second Term.—Zoology, collection and preservation of specimens, Physics, German. Third Term.—Entomology, Physics, Mineralogy and Crystallography, German. THIRD YEAR.—First Term.—Comparative Anatomy and Physiology, Mineralogy, Drawing, French. Second Term.—Geology, Rhetoric or History, French. Third Term.—Lithological Geology, Palaeontology, Astronomy, Political Economy, French. FOURTH YEAR—First Term.—Historical Geology, Practical Astronomy, Mental Philosophy. Second Term —Physical Geography, Meteorology, Metallurgy, History of Civilization. Third Term.—Geology of Illinois, Geological Surveys, Excursions, Inductive Logic.