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I. Botany.
Professor Tuttle.
For Undergraduates.
Course 1B: Botany.—In this course a study is first made of the
essential factors of plant structure; this is followed by a brief survey
of the vegetable kingdom, beginning with the algae and ending with the
seed-plants. As each group is discussed in the lectures, as many representative
members as practicable will be studied in the laboratory, including
where possible the important phases of the life-history. The principles
of classification will be considered and illustrated, and as far as
possible applied in connection with the forms studied.
The first term of this course deals largely with the forms of plant life
that are of importance in the management of water supplies, and is
arranged with a view to the needs of students in Sanitary Engineering.
The class is limited for the present to thirty members. Lectures, Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, 12-1. Laboratory, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 9-11.
Cabell Hall.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Three courses are offered in Plant Morphology, one of which will
be given each session; each course comprises two lectures and two laboratory
periods of three hours each weekly; participation in the weekly biological
if not elected by at least four students. Lectures on Tuesdays and
Thursdays from 1 to 2 p. m.; laboratory periods, Wednesdays and Fridays
from 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. Botany 1B or Zoölogy 1B is prerequisite for entrance
upon either of these courses. The courses offered are as follows.
Course 2C: Thallophytes.—This course will be devoted to the study
of the Fission-Plants: the Green Algae (in the limited sense), the Confervales,
and Charales: the Bacillariales, Brown Algae, and Dictyoltales:
the Red Algae: the various orders of the Fungi, and the Lichens. The
Green Algae will be studied in greatest detail, on account of their morphological
importance as exhibiting a varied and instructive differentiation
of forms from unicellular plants to colonial, coenocytic, and thalloid
plant-bodies; and as the group to which the higher plants are most nearly
allied.
Course 3C: Archegoniates.—The work of this course will comprise
the study of the Liverworts: the Mosses: and the Fern-like Plants. By
far the larger portion of the course will be occupied with the latter, the
anatomy and morphology of the various orders being discussed and studied
at length, together with their relations to the acquisition of the seed-habit.
Course 4C: Spermophytes.—The study of the Seed-Plants will comprise
a discussion and examination of the anatomy, both physiological and
morphological, of the various orders of Gymnosperms and of the two great
divisions of the Angiosperms: and a study of representatives, as far as
possible, of each of the great orders of the latter group: in addition, a few
representative families will be discussed and studied in detail.
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