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Caption: Course Catalog - 1899-1900
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PHILOSOPHICAL GROUP 131 physiology and the University preparation for medical study. One semester's work in practical entomology, intended primarily for the College of Agriculture, is offered to all University students without preliminary conditions. EQUIPMENT The equipment of the zoological department is contained in four students' laboratories, an instructor's laboratory, a lecture room, a private office, a store room, and a dark room for photography. It includes twenty aquaria, forty-eight compound microscopes of the best makes, microtomes of five patterns, and the usual equipment of incubators, paraffin baths, etc. Advanced and graduate students have the free use of the library and equipment of the State Laboratory of Natural History, which occupies rooms in Natural History Hall. They are also admitted to the privileges of the University Biological Station, at Havana, Illinois, and will be given credit for regular work done there. They are thus afforded ample opportunity for prolonged original work in several departments of zoological science, especially in those relating to the zoology of Illinois. The Bulletin of the State Laboratory is open to graduates for the publication of their papers. Entomological students have similar access to the collections and resources of the State Entomologist's office, including a well-equipped insectary for experimental investigation. T H E PHILOSOPHICAL GROUP AIMS The philosophical group includes those sciences which deal both with man as an individual, in the mental and moral spheres, especially as these are connected with his physical being, and also with man in society. The branches of knowledge included in the group occupy a place among the divisions of biological science,, and it is intended to carry the spirit of biology, in the commonly accepted sense, into the investigation of these subjects. The general purpose
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