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Caption: Course Catalog - 1878-1879
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66 Illinois Industrial University. year. The physiological part of Sach's Botany, is made the basis of this work, given by lectures with references to other publications, and experimental practice. Respiration, assimilation, the circulation of fluids, the influence of light and temperature, growth and reproduction, are sume 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 authority for the facts stated. Anatomy 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 controllable 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 SubKingdoms, Protozoa, Ccelenterata, Anuloida, 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 Zoology, so that the orders may be recognized at sight, etc. Nicholson's Manual of Zoology is used as a text book. LABORATORY WORK. Osteology is taken up the winter term, and is designed to give the student a practical and theoretical knowledge of the vertebrate skeleton.
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