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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 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 Martin s treatise, The Human Body. Zoology.—The object of the Zoological course is primarily to give the students command of the methods of Zoological research and study, and to derive from these their distinctive discipline. The subject is taught during the whole of the Sophomore year, the course being based 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 embryology—both based on individual work with the microscope—and the third, to the determination and description of species, to the study of life histories, and to collections, field observations, and laboratory experiments, the course closing with lectures and discussions on the final generalizations and fundamental principles of Zoological science. The natural history students electing a Zoological subject for their term's work ia " 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 metamorphism, crystalization, consolidation, and the production of mountain folds; upon the nature and material of rocks, veins, dykes, etc., and upon the arrangement and distribu-