Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1894-1895 [PAGE 127]

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GENERAL LIST OF SUBJECTS.

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are the classification of rocks, the methods used in their determination,the conditions governing the formation of each species, the decompositions to which they are liable, and the products of these decompositions. Each student is supplied with a set of blowpipe tools and reagents and a series of hand specimens covering all the common species of rocks. (c) Historical Geology. The work on this subject is substantially an introduction to the history of geology as a science, and the developmental history of the leading geological doctrines. An attempt is also made to trace the history of each geological period, so far as may be done with the data in hand. (d) Paleontology. The scheme of instruction in this subject places before the student the classification adopted for those organic forms occurring as fossils, together with the succession of the various groups t h a t occur in the strata, with t h e cause, as far as known, for their appearance and disappearance. The student is required to familiarize himself with selected groups of paleozoic fossils, abundant illustrations of which are placed in his hands. The subject is presented in lectures and demonstrations, each group being considered in connection with its nearest living representative. (e) Economic Geology. The final term of this course is devoted to a study of the uses man may make of geologic materials, the conditions under which these materials occur, and the qualities which render them valuable. The instruction is given by lectures, with reference to the various state and government reports, transactions of societies, and monographs in which these subjects are treated, as well as by demonstrations with materials from the collections of the University. In dynamic and historical geology Dana's manual is used as a reference book, and in economic geology Tarr's Economic Geology of the United States. Petrography is pursued by means of a blue-print adaptation of Rosenbusch for the crystalline rocks, and various authors for the fragmental. In paleontology Nicholson and Zittel are used for descriptions of the larger groups, Miller for general distribution, and the various state surveys for species. Winter, spring, 'and fall terms,'full study. Professor ROLFE and Mr. MOSIER.

Bequired: Chemistry 3b; Mineralogy 1. 2. INVESTIGATIONS AND THESIS.—For students who select a geological thesis guidance and facilities will be afforded for in-