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COLLEGE OF SCIENCE.

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embryology, bacteriology, and geology 4 in the third year; and anthropology and ethnology, ethics, general biology, and thesis work in the fourth year. Those wishing to concentrate their major work in zoology only, may take courses 1 and 4 to 7 in zoology, beginning with the second term of the freshman year, and minor courses in physiology, physics, and botany in the second year, meteorology or mineralogy 1 and geology 4 in the third year, and anthropology, general biology, and thesis investigation during the senior year. For a zoological course with principal reference to entomology, zoology 2 may be taken instead of 1, and course 5 omitted from the above list. The student desiring to specialize in physiology should take zoology 3 and follow it with all the physiology offered, except course 4. His work may be otherwise like that suggested above for the zoological specialist, with the omission of minor physiology. A special course in botany may be made up on similar lines to those of the special zoological course by taking, instead of major zoology, the botanical courses 1 to 4 in the second and third years, preceded by zoology 8 in the freshman year, and followed by botany 5 (thesis work). Students who desire to make the most of the offerings in geology are advised to begin their mineralogy in the fall term of the sophomore year; to take geology in the winter term and spring terms of that year, and the fall term of the junior year; and to finish their mineralogy during the winter and spring terms of the junior year, and thesis work in the senior year. DESCRIPTIONS OF DEPARTMENTS.

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Six courses of instruction are offered in this subject—five primarily intended to meet the wants of students making botanical work more or less a specialty, and the sixth occupying a single term, complete in itself, for students whose chief attention is given to other branches. Three to eight terms' work constitutes a major course; that of the single term, course 6, a minor course. To a very large extent natural objects are studied rather than books, but constant endeavor is made to introduce students to pertinent existing literature. In the laboratory much use is made of the compound microscope, and special attention is given to its manipulation for best results, and to the preparation of objects.