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COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

attached a glazed structure, two stories in height, well adapted to facilitate experiments upon living plants and for the growth of specimens required in the laboratories. There are also provisions for private laboratory work by instructors. The department is .furnished with a lecture room; a room for the herbarium and facilities for work in connection therewith; workrooms for the preparation of specimens and material; storage rooms for apparatus, utensils, reagents, and materials; dark room for photography; and rooms for offices—all in convenient association and provided with the necessary materials ; and apparatus for ordinary class work and for advanced research. Special attention has been given to parasitic fungi; and the collections of specimens and of the literature upon the subject are ample, for various lines of original investigation.

GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY

In this department four courses are offered in geology, two in mineralogy, and one in paleontology. For students who wish more than a general acquaintance with these subjects, a course covering thirty-six weeks of class room and laboratory instruction has been arranged in geology, a like course in mineralogy, and one of twenty-two weeks in paleontology. A supplementary course of twentytwo to thirty-six weeks is offered those who select a geological subject for a thesis. Engineers who wish an acquaintance with those portions only of geology which bear most directly on their future work, are offered a course of eleven weeks. To those who desire 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, a course of eleven weeks is offered. All these courses are fully described under " Description of Courses."

EQUIPMENT

Apparatus.—The mineralogical laboratory contains individual desks for twenty-four students, each of which is furnished with reagent bottles, Bunsen burners, and all the other apparatus now considered necessary to a complete outfit for blowpipe work in a first-class, laboratory. It is also provided.