UIHistories Project: A History of the University of Illinois by Kalev Leetaru
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NATURAL SCIENCE GROUP

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with a spectroscope; a specific gravity balance; an analytical balance; a trip scale; mortars (diamond, agate, wedgwood, and iron); a chemical hood equipped with sink and a complete set of reagents and apparatus for qualitative analysis; a blast lamp and blower. The advanced laboratory is equipped with individual desks for sixteen students, each supplied with apparatus as above; goniometers; microscopes; crystal models (550); thin sections of minerals and rocks (570); an apparatus for cutting and grinding thin sections of rocks, with a Jenney motor; a selfregistering barometer; an aneroid barometer, and a telescopic hand level for topographic work. For the recitation room there is a set of Kiepert's physical maps; Ramsay's orographic map of the British Isles; Haart's Alps; Chauvauni's Asia; geological and soil maps of Illinois; a series of geological maps of the United States representing land development during the successive periods; a set of charts illustrating orography, erosion, deposition of metals, e,tc; a series of relief maps; a complete lantern outfit with microscope and solar attachment; four hundred lantern slides; an equipment for photography and the manufacture of lantern slides. Materials.—The collection of fossils comes principally from the paleozoic, but includes a representative series from the higher groups. It contains 43,400 specimens. Six hundred and fifty of the types described in the reports of the Illinois geological survey are included, and also 200 thin sections of corals and bryozoa. The collection of minerals contains 7,109 specimens, and that of rocks 2,912 specimens, among which is a large number of polished granites, marbles, and other ornamental building stones. There is also a collection of Illinois soils containing 76 specimens; and a large collection of Illinois clays with their manufactured products.

PHYSIOLOGY

The special objects of the courses in human physiology are as follows: (1) to give to prospective students of medicine a detailed practical knowledge of the normal histological structure and vital processes of the body and a working familiarity with the instruments of precision used in the investigation of