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MILLER SCHOOL OF BIOLOGY AND AGRICULTURE.
Professor Tuttle.
The work of this School is designed to meet the wants of students who desire
such knowledge of the principles of Biology and of the methods of biological
research as should properly form a part of a liberal education, or who desire
such training as will fit them for independent work as students or as teachers in
that department of knowledge; and of those who seek such acquaintance with
the facts and laws of Biology as will prepare them for an intelligent study of the
relations of Biology to Agriculture. The following courses are offered, each
with three lectures a week throughout the session; the associated study for
each on the part of the student is performed chiefly in the Laboratory, which is
excellently equipped for the purpose.
Botany.—The study of Biology is begun by a brief survey of the principal
groups of the Vegetable Kingdom, beginning with the lowest and simplest forms.
As the more complex forms are reached, their histology is discussed in its
physiological as well as its morphological relations. Special attention is paid,
as far as time will permit, to those groups of plants which have special economic
importance, and to the flora of the region. On account of their great practical
importance in many respects, including their relations to health and disease in
man and the domestic animals, the Bacteria are discussed and studied at
length. Attendance on this portion of the course is required of students in the
Medical Department of the University.
Text-Books.—Prantl and Vines's Text-Book of Botany; Stokes's Key to Fresh-water
Algae; Gray's Manual.
Graduation in this course is required of students who elect Biology as one of
their studies for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
Comparative Anatomy and Physiology.—This course is devoted to
the study of the Anatomy, Histology and Embryology of Vertebrates, and to
the principles of Animal Physiology. The general structure and functions of
the vertebrate body, as illustrated by a series of representative forms, will be
considered; and one or more systems of organs discussed and examined comparatively,
both in the adult and the developing organism. The normal histology
of man and the domestic animals will be studied in detail. Attendance
upon the portion of the course devoted to Histology is required of medical
students, who are also admitted to the lectures on Embryology at their option.
Text-Books.—Wiedersheim's Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrates; Parker's
Zootomy; Shaefer's Histology; Foster and Balfour's Embryology.
Graduation in this course is required of students who elect Biology as one of
their studies for the degree of Master of Arts. The completion of this and
Biology.
Zoology.—This course, open to graduate students only, includes the study
of Animal Morphology, as illustrated by the Anatomy, Histology and, as far as
possible, the Embryology of a series of representative species chosen from the
principal divisions of the Animal Kingdom, the principles of classification, and
the arrangement of the various orders and classes of animals in larger groups as
indicated by their structural affinities.
Text-Books.—Rolleston's Forms of Animal Life; Claus's Text-Book of Zoology;
Lang's Text-Book of Comparative Anatomy; Balfour's Embryology.
This course will be required of all students who elect Biology as one of their
studies for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy; those who choose it as a major
study will be required in addition to do such work as may be assigned to them
individually.
Practical Biology and Agriculture.—The relations of Biology to
Agriculture are so manifold, and the subdivisions of the latter subject so numerous,
that it would be impossible to exhaust the discussion of either in the
work of any one year. A course consisting in part of lectures and in part of an
equivalent amount of practical work and collateral reading will be offered
yearly. It will include the discussion of selected topics pertaining to Economic
Botany (such as the diseases or the parasites of plants, the natural history of
cultivated varieties, and the like); to Economic Zoology (such as the life-history
and treatment of injurious or beneficial insects, external or internal parasites,
the special anatomy and physiology of the domestic animals, etc.); and to
questions connected with the Principles of Agriculture (such as the laws of
growth and nutrition of crops, the drainage and tillage of soils, systems of rotation
and allied topics).
Text-Books for 1894-'95.—Zimmermann's Botanical Microtechnique; Ward's Timber
and its Diseases; Hough's Elements of Forestry.
Candidates for a diploma of graduation in Agriculture are required to complete
the work of the first and fourth courses.
The Biological Laboratory is well provided with instruments for the
gross and minute dissection of animals and plants; microscopes, microtomes,
reagents, and materials for the staining and mounting of preparations; apparatus
for photography and microphotography, and other necessary appliances,
not only for student work, but for investigation and research as well. In addition
to the large and valuable collections of the Brooks Museum, an abundant
supply of other necessary specimens and material is furnished. A library
of reference is attached to the Laboratory, and students have access to a number
of leading biological and agricultural journals, thus acquiring practice in the
intelligent use of current literature.
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