III. General Biology.
Professor Tuttle.
Adjunct Professor Kepner.
For Undergraduates.
Term Course in the Principles of Biology.—A course is here offered
which is intended to afford a brief survey of some of the most
significant facts concerning organization, function, and relations of
living things: an insight into the methods of biological study: and a
full discussion as possible of the important fundamental principles deduced
from such study and the important philosophical question
arising therefrom. One lecture and one laboratory exercise each week
throughout the session. Hours by appointment. This course will
have a credit value of one-third.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course 5D: Cytology and Comparative Histology: Botany 1B,
Zoölogy 1B, and one of the advanced courses in Plant or Animal Morphology
prerequisite. This course begins with a study of the phenomena of
cell-organization and cell life in both plants and animals: this is followed
by a comparative study of the elements of structure and their
embryological development in the lower and the higher animals, or in
a similar series of plant form; the work of each student is individually
assigned in great measure. It includes practice in the more advanced
methods of technic, and a critical discussion of the microscope and
its intelligent use, as means to the ends in view. It is accompanied by
the consideration of the fundamental laws of General Biology as
founded upon cytological study. Hours by assignment: the number is
not limited.
Opportunity will be afforded to individual students for further
advanced work chiefly along the lines of this course.
A biological seminar will be conducted weekly at an hour that
will be assigned at the beginning of the session, participation in which
is required of all students in courses above Botany 1B and Zoölogy
1B.
