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GENERAL DESCRIPTION OP COURSES

year, or at least not later than the beginning of the year in which the work is to be taken. Fall, winter, mid spring terms, full study. Professor BURRILL. Required: Botany 1, 3, and 4, or an equivalent. 6. GENERAL BOTANY.—This minor course is offered to students who have but a single term to devote to botanical study. An endeavor is made to present a general view of the science and to provide an introduction to modern methods of work. Lectures or recitations, but mostly laboratory and field work. Spring term, full study. Mr. CLINTON. 7. PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY.—The microscopical examination of vegetable drugs and their adulterations. Microscopy, including the structure and use of the compound microscope and the preparation of objects. Use of drawing and photographic apparatus. Winter term, two-fifths study; spring term, three-fifths study. Professor BURRILL and

Mr. HOTTES.

COURSES FOR GRADUATES

101. BIOLOGICAL BOTANY.—The preparation and study of material by histological methods ; and experiment work with living vegetation in the laboratory and field in working out special problems in the development, physiology, and pathology of plants.

102. SYSTEMATIC BOTANY.—Critical and comparative

studies of species included in chosen groups of spermaphytes or sporophytes, or from selected geographic areas, in connection with considerations of genealogic development, geographic distribution, and inter-related association. 103. BACTERIOLOGY.—Investigations upon morphologic and physiologic variation due to treatment ; systematic studies upon the number, validity, and relationship of species ; researches upon special saprophytic or parasitic kinds of bacteria and upon methods of favoring or combating their activities. 104. EVOLUTION OP PLANTS.—Observations and Experiments upon plants and studies in related literature, in gaining information upon such topics as the following : The influence of environment, effects of self and cross fertilization, tendencies of variation, philosophy of selection, nature and laws of heredity.