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56 printed directions, and have individual instruction. During the five weeks following, the general morphology of plants, including vegetable anatomy and histology, is studied, there being about ten lectures, and thirty hours of laboratory work. Tests are made from time to* time, by the use of disguised vegetable substances. Two weeks are taken for review, finishing drawings and examination. The special morphology of the great divisions of Cryptogamic and Phsenogamie plants, their chief characteristics, their classification, and the indentification of species of the Cryptogams, or flowerless plants, constitute the work of the second term. Special attention is given to injurious fungi, from specimens in the herbarium, or grown in the laboratory. Aquaria furnish numerous kinds of fresh water algae, and the greenhouses supply specimens in nearly all the groups studied. During the term, there are about twenty lectures, and fifty-four hours of laboratory work, besides review and examination. Vegetable Physiology is studied the third term. The botanical part of Johnson's " How Crops Grow " is made the basis of this work, supplemented by lectures and references to other publications, and experimental practice. Respiration, assimilation, the circulation of fluids, the influence of light and temperature, growth and reproduction, are some of the topics treated, and sufficiently show the magnitude and importance of the study. Throughout the course, the attempt is made to introduce the students to the literature of the various subjects, and to acquaint them with the authorities for the facts stated. The most important books of reference in the English language are Sach's "Text Book of Botany/' Le Maout & Decaisne's " Botany," Gray's " Structural Botany," Lindley's " Introduction to Botany," Berkley's "Crvptogamic Botany and Fungology," Cooke's "Fungi," and "Handbook of.British Fungi." A'aatomy and Physiology.—This study commences the first term of the second year, and the Anatomy is taught by lectures, aided by works of reference. The human skeleton and manikin are made the basis of comparison in the more extended Zoological researches. The Physiology is taught by means of Dalton's Unabridged Work, accompanied by familiar lectures, in which especial attention is given to the subjects of food, digestion, dress, circulation, respiration, ventilation, etc. The senses will be carefully studied, accompanied with suggestions for prolonging their greatest efficiency—the practical and useful always taking the precedence of the merely theoretical, that the controlaole powers of the body may be preserved with their most efficient activities, to avoid preventable suffering and death, and secure vigor and happiness. Zoology continues two terms. In the first, Invertebrate Zoology is studied, unfolding the cardinal facts exemplified in the Sub-Kingdoms, Protozoa, Coelenterata, Anulodia, Anulosa and Mollusca, together with the general principles of respiration, circulation, special methods of reproduction and development; geographical and geological distribution ; principles of natural classification, depending upon morphological type and specialization of the functions, etc. Vertebrate Zoology follows, embracing embryology, modification of plan by which animals are adapted to the various conditions of existence, as manifest in their Comparative Anatomy : Systematic Zoo-