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MILLER SCHOOL OF BIOLOGY AND AGRICULTURE.
Prof. Tuttle.
The work of this School is specially designed to meet the wants of two
classes of students: those who desire such knowledge of the principles of
Biology to Agriculture, as well as of the principles of Agriculture regarded
as a practical application of biological knowledge; and those who seek
such knowledge of the facts and laws of Biology and the methods of biological
research as will fit them for independent work as students or as teachers
of that science. In accordance with this plan, two courses are offered, as
follows:
Junior Class—General Biology.—This work is alike in both courses;
all who enter the School are required to pursue it as a preparation for
advanced work in either course. Two lectures a week and associated laboratory
work throughout the session are devoted to it. Its object is to
make known the fundamental facts and laws of plant and animal life by
means of the direct study in the Laboratory of a series of representative
forms, the accompanying lectures being explanatory of and supplemental
to the practical work of the student.
The first part of the session is occupied with the study of representative
animals. The latter portion is given to the study of plants, including a
course in Descriptive and Systematic Botany: this division of the work is so
planned that it may be pursued independently of the work of the first part
of the year.
The course in General Biology, while primarily intended as an introduction
to the special courses of the School, is so arranged that it may be profitably
pursued by students who seek an elementary knowledge only of this
science, either as a part of their general education, or more particularly as a
preparation for the studies of the Medical Department.
Text-books.—Huxley and Martin's Elementary Biology (Howe's edition); Bessey's Botany;
Gray's Manual of Botany; Chapman's Botany of the Southern United States.
The advanced work of the course in Biology and Agriculture is as follows:
Intermediate Class—Practical Biology.—Two lectures a week
throughout the session are devoted to the subjects of Economic Botany,
including a discussion of cultivated plants, noxious weeds, fungi and other
vegetable parasites, and of the causes of disease in plants; and Economic
Zoology, including a similar discussion of the animals of practical importance
to the farmer, insects injurious and beneficial, external and internal
parasites, and the anatomy and physiology of the domesticated animals.
Books of reference from the University Library will be indicated for collateral
reading in connection with the various topics discussed.
Senior Class—Principles of Agriculture.—Two lectures a week
throughout the session are devoted to the discussion of the laws of plant-growth
and nutrition and of soils, drainage and tillage, the use of fertilizers,
the rotation of crops, and other subjects connected with the theory and practice
of the art of Agriculture, including a critical discussion of the methods
of agricultural experimentation and an analysis of the results and teachings
of such experiments.
Text books.—Johnson's How Crops Grow, and How Crops Feed; Storer's Agriculture.
The advanced work of the course in Biology is as follows:
Intermediate Class—Zoology.—Two lectures a week and associated
laboratory work throughout the session are devoted to the study of the animal
kingdom; the morphology and classification of animals as indicated by
their structural affinities and embryological histories being discussed, and one
or more leading groups being considered in detail.
Text-books.—Claus's Zoology (Sedgwick's translation); Haddon's Practical Embryology;
Brooks's Hand-book of Invertebrate Zoology.
Senior Class—Comparative Anatomy.—Two lectures a week with
associated laboratory work throughout the session are devoted to the anatomy
and histology of Vertebrates, one or more systems of organs being discussed
and examined both in the adult and the developing organism.
Text books.—Wiedersheim's Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates (Parker's translation);
Parker's Zootomy; Flower's Osteology of Mammalia; Foster and Balfour's Practical Embryology.
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