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Caption: Course Catalog - 1871-1872
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Jf.6 ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. are dissected so as to exhibit clearly even the most minute organs and tissues. The Green Houses, and the Aboretum and Botanical Garden, for which preparations are already made, afford also 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, &c, embracing bears, wolves, foxes, beavers, wolverines, prairie dogs, &c, birds of prey, songsters, &c.; a dissected horse's leg 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 offinepaintings for the illustration of Astronomy, Geology, Zoology and History. The collections and apparatus are constantly increasing by purchases, donations and manufacture. VACATION WORK. Besides excursions made under the charge of the Professors, Journals and Memoirs of observations will be required as in the other Colleges.
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