Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1884 [PAGE 36]

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40 mammals, birds, fishes and reptiles have their bones carefully scraped, leaving the joints connected by their natural ligaments; hence, these are called " ligamentous,, skeletons." The Museum is peculiarly fortunate in its collections in Zoology, possessing, in mounted specimens or skeletons, nearly all the ruminants of North America, except the musk ox; and representatives of ail orders of mammals, except Probocidce; exhibiting 50 species by 80 mounted specimens, with numerous skeletons. In birds, it represents all the families of North America, having 240 species represented by over 300 specimens. Its fishes are about 300. Its articulates and radiates have received valuable accessions from the Smithsonian Institute. All donations which are pieserved as specimens in the Museum, have the contributor's name placed upon the label, as donor. Also, a book is kept, in which these names are entered, alphabetically, with specimen contributed. For contributions valued at more than fifty dollars, there is a special bulletin hanging in the Museum upon which the names of such contributors are written, with a statement of the donation and its valuation.

CCUBSE IN SCHOOL OF NATURAL HISTORY.

Required for the Degree of B. S., in School of Natural

F I E S T YEAE.

History.

1. Chemistry: Free Hand Drawing, (optional); Trigonometry; French. 2. Chemistry; Free Hand Drawing, (optional); Conic Sections; French. 3. Chemistry or Free Hand Drawing; Economic Entomology; Rhetoric; French (extra).

SECOND YEAE.

1. Zoology; Botany; German. 2. Zoology; Botany; German. 3. Zoology; Vegetable Physiology; German.

THIED YEAE.

1. Anatomy and Physiology; Mineralogy; German; Ancient History (optional, extra). 2. Geology; Physics; German; Mediaeval History (optional, extra). 3. Geology; Physics; Modern History.

FOUETH YEAE.

1. Physiography; History of Civilization; Mental Science. 2. Microscopy; Constitutional History; Logic, 3. Natural History Laboratory Work; Astronomy; Political Economy.

In this course three terms of University Latin will be accepted in lieu of three terms of French; and five terms of such Latin for five terms of German.