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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 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.
I. 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 Freshwater
Algae; Gray's Manual.
II. 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 either of these courses may be offered as one of the electives
for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
III. Vegetable Morphology.—An advanced course in Botany, devoted
Vascular Plants. The completion of Course I., or its equivalent either here
or elsewhere, is required as a preliminary to this course.
Text-Books.—Bennett and Murray's Cryptogamic Botany; Strasburger's Practical
Botany (Hillhouse tr.). The library of the department contains numerous standard
works of reference.
IV. Vertebrate Morphology.—An advanced course based on Course II.,
the completion of which, or its equivalent, is required as preliminary. The
work will consist of more detailed comparative study of vertebrate structure
and development, and of the forms which may be regarded as phylogenetically
related to the Vertebrate stock.
Text-Books will be indicated as needed. The library of the department contains a
good amount of standard and periodical literature bearing on the subject of this course.
Courses III. and IV. will not both be given the same year, that one being
chosen which is elected by the greater number of eligible students, at the
beginning of the session.
Graduation in Courses I. and II. and either III. or IV. will be required
of candidates for a diploma of graduation in the School of Biology, and of
those offering Biology as one of their electives for the degree of Master of
Arts.
V. 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.
VI. 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
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 1895-'96.—Ward's Timber and its Diseases; Hough's Elements of
Forestry; Chauveau's Anatomy of the Domestic Animals.
Candidates for a diploma of graduation in Biology and Agriculture are
required to complete Courses I., II. and VI.
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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