 | The University of Virginia record April, 1908 |  |
BIOLOGY.
| Professor Tuttle. | Professor Kepner. |
General Statement.—The summer work in Biology at present
offered makes provision for the study of each of the great divisions
of the organic world: separate courses being offered in Botany and
in Zoology. The object in either case is, first of all, to familiarize
the student with the methods involved in the systematic study of the
organization of plants or of animals; and to give such opportunity for
individual work by such methods on the part of each student, under
the guidance of the teacher, as will enable him or her to carry on similar
work elsewhere independently with confidence and accuracy. A
second object of equal importance is to give to the student a clear
conception of the vegetable or the animal kingdom (as the case
may be) as a whole, in such manner as to impart a clear idea of the
relations and significance of any particular group that may be at any
time the subject of special interest.
These ends are sought in each case by the presentation in the
laboratory of a series of representative forms, each of which is in
turn made the subject of careful study as to its organization, activities,
and life-history: and by accompanying lectures, in which the
results of the work in the laboratory are explained and supplemented,
studied and discussed. While the lecture and laboratory courses may
be taken separately, they will in each case be most profitably taken
together, and the examinations at the close of the session in either
Botany or Zoology will cover both the lectures and the laboratory
work in the subject in question.
The Biological Laboratory is admirably equipped with simple
and compound microscopes, microtomes and other appliances for cutting,
staining, and mounting sections for microscopic study, etc.;
and while the prime object of the course given will be to teach students
to observe accurately, to record their observations with precision,
and to make correct inferences therefrom, care will be taken
to make them familiar in large measure with the principles of microscopical
and other biological technic.
1. Structural Botany: Use of the microscope; simpler microscopical
technic. Practical study of: A Seed-plant—anatomy, histology,
development from the seed; Fern-like plants—a fern, an equisetum, a
clubmoss; moss-like plants— a liverwort, a true moss; Plant-cells—
structure, growth, modification, the methods of cell-division; Algae—a
representative brown alga, a red alga, green algae, especially the more
abundant fresh water forms; Fungi—a mushroom, a cup-fungus, the more
important parasitic fungi, moulds and mildews, yeast; Fission plants: the
fission algae, the bacteria. Work in the laboratory will at times be replaced
by the field work in which the class will be taught to locate and
identify the types studied. Laboratory work will be followed by a half
hour quiz.
Daily, from 10:15 to 12:15. Professor Tuttle. Cabell Hall, Room 12.
2. Systematic Botany: A synoptical course of lectures upon the
vegetable kingdom, parallel with the laboratory course above outlined,
and dealing largely with the lower plants not usually fully
discussed in the text-books and the other literature commonly accessible.
Daily, from 8:45 to 9:45. Professor Tuttle. Cabell Hall, Room 12.
3. Structural Zoology: Use of the microscope; simple microscopical
technic. Practical study of: Protozoa—amoeba, paramecium;
Coelenterates,—hydra and others; Flatworms: Threadworms,
animal parasitism; annelids—earth-worms, nereis; mollusks—mussel
or clam; Echinoderms—starfish, sea urchin; Crustacea—"water fleas,"
shrimps, crayfish, crabs; Insects—grasshopper, beetle, bee; Vertebrates—amphioxus,
dogfish, frog; the fundamental tissues of animals—
the animal cell, cell-division, maturation of the ovum, segmentation
and development. Work in the laboratory will sometimes be replaced
as indicated under course 1A.
Daily, from 3:30 to 5:30. Professor Kepner. Cabell Hall, Room,
12.
4. Systematic Zoology.—A synoptical course of lectures upon
the animal kingdom, chiefly upon the invertebrates, parallel with
laboratory course above outlined.
Daily, from 2:30 to 3:30. Professor Kepner. Cabell Hall, Room
12.
Credit.—A student who passes the examinations in the two courses
in Botany and the two courses in Zoology either in the same or in consecutive
sessions will, on complying with the requirements for admission
to the University, be entitled to credit for Course 1B in Biology (See
catalogue of the University of Virginia) or for the requirements in that
subject for admission to the Department of Medicine.
| The University of Virginia record April, 1908 | |