 | University of Virginia record March, 1910 |  |
BIOLOGY.
Professor Kepner.
Professor Tuttle.
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 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, and the relations of the organism in
question to the other forms studied and discussed. Two courses will
be offered in both zoology and botany, a lecture course and a
laboratory course, which may be taken separately but which in each
case will be more profitably taken together. The examinations at
the close of the session in either botany or zoology will cover both
the lectures and the laboratory work.
The Biological Laboratory is admirably equipped with simple and
staining, and mounting sections for microscopic study, etc.; and
while the prime object of the courses 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 microscopal
and other biological technic.
1. Systematic Botany.—This course is intended to afford to teachers
and others an opportunity to become familiar with the forms of plant
life least generally understood, or most likely to offer discouraging
difficulties to the beginner who undertakes them independently and
unaided. It will consist of synoptical lectures upon the vegetable
kingdom and will be devoted chiefly to the study of seedless (or
"flowerless") plants, supplemented by a brief study of the organization
and life-history of representatives of the seed (or "flowering")
plants. It should be taken in connection with the laboratory course
in botany.
Daily, from 8:30 to 9:30. Professor Tuttle. Cabell Hall, Room 12.
2. Structural Botany.—This course will be a laboratory course
parallel with the lecture course above outlined. The following topics
will be studied: Use of the microscope and simple microscopic
technic; 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; algæ—a representative
brown alga, a red alga, green algæ, especially the more abundant
water forms; fungi—a mushroom, a cupfungus, the more abundant
parasitic fungi, moulds and mildews, yeast; lichens; fission plants—
the fission algæ, the bacteria.
Daily, from 9:30 to 12:30. Professor Tuttle. Cabell Hall, Room 12.
3. Systematic Zoology.—The object of this course is first, to
indicate the relationships that exist between the various types that
compose the animal kingdom; and second, to furnish teachers and
others such a knowledge of the chief types of invertebrates and of
certain types of vertebrates as is necessary to form a basis for nature
study and the teaching of elementary physiology. The laboratory
course in zoology should be taken in connection with this lecture
course.
Daily, from 2:30 to 3:30. Professor Kepner. Cabell Hall, Room 12.
4. Structural Zoology.—This course is a laboratory course parallel
with the course above outlined. The following topics will be studied:
Use of the microscope and simple microscopical technic; protozoa—
amœba, paramecium; coelenterates—hydra and others; flatworms;
threadworms, animal parasitism; annelids—earthworm, nereis; mollusks—mussel
or clam; echinoderms—starfish, sea urchin; crustacea—
"water fleas," shrimps, crayfish, crabs; insects—grasshopper, beetle,
bee; vertebrates—amphioxus, dogfish, frog; fundamental tissues of
animals—the animal cell, cell-division, maturation of the ovum, segmentation
and development.
Daily, from 3:30 to 6:30. Professor Kepner. Cabell Hall, Room 12.
Credit.—A student who passes the examinations on the two courses
in Botany and the two courses in Zoology (either in the same or in
consecutive sessions of the Summer Session) will, on complying with
the requirements for admission to the University of Virginia, be
entitled to credit for Course 1 B in General Biology, or for the
requirements in that subject for admission to the Department of
Medicine. A student who passes the examination on the two courses
equivalent portion of Course 1 B in Botany. Subject to the same
conditions, a student who passes the examination on the two courses
in Zoology only will be entitled to credit for a corresponding portion of Course 1 B in Zoology.
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