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SPECIAL STUDIES.

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have also had a year's training in zoology, which makes a free use of the facts of comparative anatomy possible, and aids greatly in the work of the course. The main objects of the course are, to make the student familiar with the position, structure, and healthy action of those organs most liable to become diseased; to make plain the part which the nervous system plays in both the healthy and morbid action of the various organs, and in the problems of nutrition and energy. The subject is taught during the fall term of the junior year. The plan embraces lectures, recitations from the textbook, frequent readings from standard authors, and demonstrations from fresh dissections, alcoholic specimens, microscopial preparations, skeletons, and the manikin. 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 more important features of the work are comparative dissections, descriptions, drawings, and microscopic preparations of types of the greater groups, as a basis for the study of the sub-kingdoms and their more important divisions; lectures on the comparative physiology of selected forms, with especial reference to their relations to their environment, organic and inorganic, present and past; studies of the zoological classification, commonly introduced by analytical synopses, exhibiting the technical relations of groups; lectures and elaborate reviews directed especially to the general system of homologies by which zoological science is organized as a coherent whole; a course of lectures in general embryology, given with principal reference to the descent of animals, and as a preparation for later work in special embryology; and lectures on the history of zoological science and its final generalizations. The general biology of the senior year includes comparative histology, and the embryology of the earthworm and of the chick; in plants, development and reproduction in the