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COLLEGE OF SCIENCE.

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3. Investigations and Thesis.—Candidates for graduation in the College of Science who select a zoological subject as a thesis are required to spend at least two hours a day for the winter and spring terms of their senior year in making an independent investigation of some selected zoological subject. While this work is done under the general supervision of an instructor, it is in its methods and responsibilities essentially original work. Winter and spring terms, full study. Professor FORBES. Required: Zoology, i. Note.—The texts most frequently used in the foregoing courses are Sedgwick's Claus, in general zoology, Haddon's Introduction to the Study of Embryology, and Foster and Balfour's Elements, in embryology. The dissections and other morphological studies are made with the aid of laboratory manuals prepared in the department and furnished to students in cyclostyle print. The determinative work of the course is guided by synopses, descriptive papers, and the like, also prepared in the laboratory and reproduced by the cyclostyle. A very full series of laboratory guides and manuals is at hand for reference. 4. Systematic Zoology (including Entomology).—To students who have course 1 an opportunity is offered for a year's work, two hours a day, in systematic zoology (including entomology), to be taken individually, under the guidance of an instructor. It may be closely adapted to the bent and ability of the student. It should consist essentially of determinative and descriptive work upon selected groups, and must be concluded with a synoptic or monographic paper upon some group of animals, based upon personal study. For students of this course very unusual facilities are at hand in the library and collections of the State Laboratory of Natural History, which occupy rooms adjoining those of the zoological department of the University. Fall, winter, and spring terms, full study.

Professor FORBES.

Required: Zoology, 1. 5. General Zoology, Minor Course.—For the benefit of students of natural science specializing in some other direction, as well as for literary students desiring some general knowledge of zoology, a course of a single term is offered which contains enough laboratory and. descriptive work to give a practical idea of the method of zoological science, and a sufficient number of lectures, with study of text, to cover the general subject in a cursory manner. Principal attention is paid to the Protozoa, to insects, and to birds. Winter term, full study. Professor FORBES.