Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1890 [PAGE 217]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

m o u n t i n g objects. Students provide themselves with slides a n d covers, needles, forceps, brushes, and razors. Microscopes, sect i o n cutters, t u r n tables, etc., are furnished by the University. About t h i r t y compound microscopes represent t h e best American and European makers. Anatomy and Physiology.—The students admitted t o t h i s class have already passed an entrance examination in the elem e n t a r y principles of a n a t o m y and physiology, They h a v e also h a d a year's t r a i n i n g in zoology, which makes a free use of the facts of comparative a n a t o m y possible, and aids g r e a t l y in the work of the course. The main objects of the course are t o make the student familiar with t h e position, structure, and healthy action of t h o s e o r g a n s m o s t liable t o become diseased ; t o make plain t h e p a r t which t h e nervous system plays in b o t h t h e healthy and morbid action of the various organs, and in t h e problems of n u t r i t i o n a n d energy. The subject is t a u g h t during the fall term of the junior y e a r . The plan embraces lectures, recitations from the t e x t book, frequent readings from s t a n d a r d a u t h o r s , and d e m o n s t r a t i o n s from fresh dissections, alcoholic specimens, microscopical prepar a t i o n s , skeletons and t h e manikin. Zoology.—The object of t h e zoological course is primarily t o give the students command of the methods of zoological research and study, and t o derive from these their distinctive discipline. The subject is t a u g h t ten hours a week during t h e whole of t h e sophomore year, the course being based t h r o u g h o u t on individual work in t h e zoological l a b o r a t o r y , a n d in t h e field. The more i m p o r t a n t features of the work are c o m p a r a t i v e dissections, descriptions, drawings, and microscopic p r e p a r a t i o n s of types of the greater groups, as a basis for the study of t h e sub-kingdoms and their more i m p o r t a n t divisions; lectures on t h e comparative physiology of selected forms, with especial reference t o their relations t o their environment, organic a n d inorganic, present and p a s t ; studies of the zoological classification, commonly introduced by analytical synopses, exhibiting t h e technical relations of g r o u p s ; lectures and elaborate reviews directed especially t o t h e general system of homologies by which zoological science is organized as a coherent whole; a course of lectures in general embryology, given with principal reference t o the descent of animals, and as a p r e p a r a t i o n for later work in special embryology; and lectures on the history of zoological science and its final generalizations. The general biology of the senior year includes c o m p a r a t i v e histology of animals, and the embryology of t h e chick; in plants, development and reproduction in the various groups of cryptog a m s and phanerogams and bacteriology.