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ZOOLOGY

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Presuming upon a general knowledge of the Arthropoda, the instruction begins with more detailed work on Insecta. The greater part of the course consists of laboratory studies of the structure and classification of insects; practice in the determination of species and the description and illustration of species and structures; field work and observation, including the collection of specimens of all orders and stages, aquatic and terrestrial; office work in the preparation, labeling, and arrangement of collections; a systematic independent study of life histories of selected species, with full records, descriptions, and drawings; experimental insecticide work, and library practice in collecting, collating, indexing, and abstracting the literature of the species principally studied, concluding with a thesis on a single species studied both biologically and experimentally. Special instruction is given in this course in the art of entomological illustration, under the supervision of an expert zoological artist. Winter term, lecture, Tu., Th., at 9.15; spring term, lecture, Tu., Th., at 10. Arrange for 8 hours of laboratory each term, full credit. Professor FORBES. Required: Zoology 1, 2, 8, 10, or 11. 7. ADVANCED ENTOMOLOGY.—Special courses will be arranged in either technical or practical entomology for students wishing to specialize extensively in this direction, and to such students the facilities of the State Laboratory of Natural History and of the State Entomologist's office will be freely open. Fall, winter, and spring terms, full credit. Professor FORBES. Required: Zoology 5. 8. PRACTICAL ENTOMOLOGY.—This is a single term's work open, without conditions precedent, to University students, but offered for the special benefit of students in agriculture. By means of laboratory studies and lectures and field and insectary observations, students will be made familiar with the commonest and most important injurious insects, and with means of preventing or arresting their injuries. Spring term, lecture, M., IV., F., at 10. Arrange for 8 hours of laboratory work, full credit. Professor FORBES.

9. THESIS INVESTIGATION.—Candidates for graduation in the

College of Science who select a zoological subject as a thesis are required to spend at least three hours a day during their senior year in making an investigation of some selected zoological subject. While this work is done under the general supervision of an instructor, it is in its methods and responsibilites essentially original work. Fall, winter, and spring terms, full credit. Professor FORBES.