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College of Natural Science.

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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 papiermache, 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 Martin's treatise, The Human Body. The library contains many of the best books of reference, including works on Anatomy by Gray, Holden, Qaain, Ellis, and Morton; and on Physiology by Flint, Dalton, Kuss, McKendrick, Kirk, Draper, and Marshall. Zoology.—The object of the Zoological course is primarily to give the students command of the methods of Zoological reseorch and study, and to derive from these their distinctive discipline. The subject is taught during the whole of trieSophomore year, the course being varied throughout on individual work in the Zoological laboratory and in the field. The results thus arrived at are supplemented by lectures and demonstrations and by the study of text. The first term is devoted to comparative dissections of types of the great groups, and to a study of the subkingdoms and classes of animals; the second term to comparative histology and the elements of embyology,—both based on individual work with the microscope;—and the third, to the determination and description of species, to the study of lifehistories, and to collection, field observations, and laboratory experiments, the course closing with lectures and discussions, final generalizations and fundamental principles of Zoological science. The natural history students electing a Zoological subject for their term's work in "natural history laboratory," in the senior year, are furnished all necessary appliances for the pursuit of whatever subject they may select, as a piece of original work* with such guidance, oversight, and suggestion as each may seem to require. 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 metamorphrism, crystalization, consolidation, and the production of mounr tain folds; upon the nature and material of rocks, veins, dykes^