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Caption: Course Catalog - 1891-1892
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96 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. families to which they belong, are furnished the students, and the essential facts not discoverable by direct observation, are given in lectures or acquired by study of text. Practice in field observation is given as opportunity offers, and all are taught the ordinary methods of the collection, preparation, and care of specimens, together with the approved methods of controlling the ravages of the injurious species. A personal study, continuous for a term, of the life history and habits of some insect species is made by each student, and is finally reported in the form of a thesis. In both field and laboratory an extraordinary opportunity is offered to competent students of this course to observe and assist in practical entomological work and original research. Winter and spring terms, 10 hours a week. Professor FORBES. Required: Zoology, 1, or Zoology, 5; Botany, 1. PHYSIOLOGY. 1. Human Physiology.—The students admitted to this class have already passed an entrance examination in the elementary principles of anatomy and physiology. 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 text book, frequent readings from standard authors, and demonstrations from fresh dissections, alcoholic specimens, microscopical preparations, skeletons, and the manikin. Martin's Human Body. Fall term, 5 hours a week. Professor EOLFE. Required: Chemistry, 1. GENERAL BIOLOGY. 1. General Advanced Biology.—For those who have taken a major course in either botany or zoology, a single term of general biology is arranged and especially commended. It is in!ended
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