Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1897-1898 [PAGE 116]

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COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

joining the latter and used in connection with it for vegetable physiology, and having 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; work rooms for the preparation of specimens and material; storage rooms for apparatus, utensils, reagents, and materials; dark room for photography; 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 subects, 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 twentytwo weeks in paleontology. A supplementary course of twenty-two 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," pp.

192, 219, 224.