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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY.

l a this department four courses are offered in geology and two in mineralogy. For those students who wish more than a general acquaintance with these subjects a major course covering thirty-six weeks (360 hours) of class room and laboratory instruction has been arranged in each, and a supplementary course of twenty-two weeks (220 hours) is offered to those who select a geological subject for a thesis. Engineers who wish an acquaintance with those portions only of geology which bear most strictly on their future work are offered a minor course of eleven weeks ( n o hours.) A minor course of eleven weeks ( n o hours) is offered to those desiring merely an outline of the most prominent facts and theories of geology with some idea of the methods by which the geologist arrives at his conclusions. In mineralogy one term's work may be taken for a similar purpose.

ZOOLOGY.

Zoology is taught in eight courses: Three terms of major work, variously combined to form three courses, primarily for students in the school of natural science; a term of embryology for those who have taken one of the preceding courses; two terms in entomology to follow upon two terms of the major work above mentioned; a year's work in comparative anatomy, zoological oecology, or systematic zoology (including palaeontology), for advanced students only; a year's work in independent investigation (senior) for those who select a zoological subject for the graduating thesis; and a general course of a single term, offered as a minor in the school of natural science and as an elective to the students of the University at large. The leading objects of these courses in zoology are thus seen to be manifold—partly general and partly special. Only the first term's work is necessarily common to all students in the college who desire to make zoological study a prominent feature of their course. At the end of this term three divergent lines of work are open, one leading mainly towards entomology, a second towards physiology and medical study, and a third towards advanced zoology— anatomical, systematic, or oecological. The department is amply supplied with excellent laboratories, thoroughly furnished and equipped, and with the apparatus of instruction and investigation.

PHYSIOLOGY.

The main special objects of the courses in human physiology are as follows: (1) to give to prospective students of medicine a detailed practical