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Caption: Course Catalog - 1875-1876
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•fS Illinois Industrial University, APPARATUS. Collections of specimens and illustrative apparatus have been presided by purchase, manufacture and donation. In BOTANY the School has an extensive and valuable Herbarium collected by several expeditions, and largely increased from other sources; also a L-ignariuro exhibiting woods in section. It has a fine collection of enlarged papier-mache models of flowers and fruits, made by Dr. Auzoux, of Paris, and dissected to exhibit perfectly the most minute organs and tisswes. Among these are a pink, a papilionaceousflower, a cherry, a strawberry, a pea-pod with peas, a vetch legume, a grain of wheat, etc. The Green-houses, Arboretum and Botanical Garden, are opened to the students of this School. In ZOOLOGY the Cabinets contain: a human skeleton, purchased in Paris, and a manakin made by Dr. Auzoux; skeletons of a cow and other mammals, and of birds; stuffed preparations of a large mumber of birds, mammals, fishes, reptiles, etc., a dissected horse's leg and hoof, a dissected eye, trachea, and vocal apparatus, in papier-mache, by Dr. Auzoux; collections of shells, fossils and insects. In ENTOMOLOGY: The State Entomologist, required by law to make collections for the University, is preparing a full suite of specimens. A large number have been received. In GEOLOGY: a complete collection of specimens from the State Geological Survey, and Prof. Ward's celebrated College Series of casts of famous fossils has been added by the generosity of one of the Trustees. In MINERALOGY, PALAEONTOLOGY, etc.; large collections, with preparations of ores. There is also a pair of large dissolving-view cameras with slides, for illustrating Astronomy, Geology, Zoology, and History. COURSE IN SCHOOL OF NATURAL HISTORY. FIRST YEAR. 1. Botany (Advanced); Chemistry; British Authors. 2. Cryptogamic Botany; Chemistry; American Authors. 3 ' Entomology; Chemistry; Rhetoric. SEGOND YEAR. 1. Advanced Anatomy and Physiology; German; Free-Hand Drawing. 2' Zoology: German; Drawing. 3 . Zoology j German; Astronomy and Modelling. THIRD YEAR. 1. Mineralogy; German; Ancient History. 2 ' Geology; German; Physics. 3 ' Geology; Physics; Modern History. FOURTH YEAR, \. Geology; Constitutional History; Mental Science, 2- Meteorology and Physical Geography; History of Civilization; Microscopy. 3 . Political Economy, Logic; Laboratory Work and Thesis.
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