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Illinois Industrial University.

Throughout the course, the attempt is made to introduce the students to the literature of the various subjects, and to acquaint them with the authorities for the facts stated. Microscopy and Fungology.—Students have in this study further practice in the use of the compound microscope, the management of light for particular purposes, the testing of lenses, measurement of magnifying powers and angles of aperture, drawing and photographing objects, the preparation and mounting of material, etc. The application is mainly but n ot exclusively devoted to vegetable tissues and products. The special aim is to afford the opportunity of gaining a skillful and rational use of the instrument and an acquaintance with the best methods and processes of preparing and mounting objects. Students provide themselves with slides and covers, needles, forceps, brushes, and razors. Microscopes, section cutters, turn-tables, etc., are furnished by the University. Anatomy and Physiology. —This subject is presented during the first term of the Junior year. Anatomy is taught by lectures illustrated by skeletons, manikin, models in papier-mache, and microscopical preparations. Fresh specimens of various organs are dissected and demonstrated before the class during the term. Physiology is taught by lectures, demonstrations, and recitations from Mdrtin's treatise, The Human Body. The library contains many of the best books of reference, including works on Anatomy by Gray, Holden, Quain, Ellis, and Morton ; and on Physiology by Flint, Dalton, Kuss, McKendrick, Kirk, Draper, and Marshall. Zoology is taught during the whole of the Sophomore year from a text-book, and by lectures and practical work in the Laboratory. The text-book used is Packard's. The laboratory work involves the study by dissection of the organs of respiration, circulation, digestion, and locomotion of the higher animals, and of the lower forms as far as may be done with the aid of the microscope. Geology is taught during the second and third terms of the junior year. LeConte's Geology is used as a text-book. The first term is given to instruction upon the dynamical effects of water in eroding, transporting and depositing materials ; upon the action of heat as manifested in metamorphism, crystalization, consolidation and the production of mountain folds ; upon the nature and material of rocks, veins, dykes, etc., and upon the arrangement and distribution of metals and their ores. The second term is devoted to the consideration of the historic development of the earth as revealed by the study of the animals and plants entombed