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MILLER SCHOOL OF BIOLOGY AND AGRICULTURE.
Professor 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 as will prepare them for an intelligent study of the relations 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,
arranged in three classes, as follows:
Class in General Biology.—This work is alike in both courses; 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 or supplemental
to the practical work of the student.
It is found convenient to arrange the work of this year in two parallel lines,
either of which may be pursued alone by those who desire. Two lectures a
week, with associated laboratory work, are devoted to the tudy of representative
animals, taking into consideration their physiological anatomy, their
histology, and their embryology, as well as the morphological relations which
these indicate; thus forming an elementary course in Zoology. One lecture
of plants, including the subjects of Descriptive and Systematic Botany.
Text books.—Brooks's Handbook of Invertebrate Zoölogy; Marshall and Hurst's Practical
Zoölogy; Bessey's Botany; Gray's Manual.
The advanced work of the course in Biology and Agriculture is as follows:
Class in Practical Biology and Agriculture.—The relations of
Biology to Agriculture are so manifold, and the subdivisions of the latter
subject so numerous, that no attempt will be made to exhaust the discussion
of either in the work of any one year. A course of two lectures a week,
with associated practical work, and collateral reading, will be offered yearly;
in each case including the discussion of selected topics pertaining to Economic
Botany, such as the physiology, the diseases or the parasites of plants,
the natural history of cultivated varieties, and the like; to Economic
Zoology, including such subjects as the life-history and treatment of injurious
or beneficial insects, external and internal parasites, the anatomy and
physiology of the domestic animals, etc.; and to the principles of Agriculture,
such as the laws of the growth and nutrition of crops, the drainage and
tillage of soils, systems of rotation, and other subjects connected with the
theory and practice of the art of Agriculture; including a critical discussion
of the methods and results of agricultural experimentation.
Text-books will be assigned from year to year in accordance with the subjects
chosen for study.
The advanced work of the course in Biology is as follows:
Class in Biology and Comparative Anatomy.—Two lectures a
week with associated laboratory work throughout the session are devoted to
the Anatomy, Histology, and Embryology of Vertebrates, one or more systems
of organs being specially discussed and examined comparatively both
in the adult and the developing organism.
Text-books—Flower's Osteology of the Mammalia; Wiedersheim's Comparative Anatomy of
Vertebrates; Foster and Balfour's Embryology.
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