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PHILOSOPHICAL GEOUP.

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in the college who desire to make zoological study a prominent feature of their course. At the end of this term three divergent lines are open, one leading mainly towards entomology, a second towards physiology and medical study, and a third towards advanced zoology—anatomical, systematic, or oecological. In this department two additional courses are given as elementary and general biology, respectively: The first, open unconditionally to all University students; and the second, an advanced course following upon the preceding, or upon major work in zoology and botany.

EQUIPMENT.

The equipment of the zoological department is contained in four student's laboratories, an instructor's laboratory, a lecture room, a private office, a store room, and a dark room for photography. It includes twenty aquaria, forty-eight compound microscopes of the best makes (Zeiss, Reicherts, Leitz, and Bausch & Lomb), Zeiss dissecting microscopes, Abbe camera lucidas, microtomes of five patterns (Zimmermann's Minot, Cambridge, Beck-Schanze, Bausch & Lomb, and Ryder), and the usual equipment of incubators, paraffine baths, etc. A set of Blaschka glass models of invertebrates, a set of Ziegler's wax models of embryology, two hundred and fifty wall charts, and some hundreds of permanent preparations in alcohol, are examples of the equipment for the illustration of lectures. Advanced and graduate students have the privilege of the free use of the library and equipment of the State Laboratory of Natural History, which occupies rooms in Natural History Hall. They are thus afforded ample opportunity for prolonged original, work in several departments of zoological science, especially in those relating to the zoology of Illinois. The Bulletin of the State Laboratory is open to graduates for the publication of their papers. Entomological students have similar access to the collections and resources of the State Entomologist's office, including a well equipped insectary for experimental investigation. THE PHILOSOPHICAL GROUP. The philosophical group includes those sciences which deal both with man as an individual, in the mental and moral spheres, especially as these are connected with his physical being, and also with man in society. The branches of knowledge included