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SCIENTIFIC SCHOOLS.
SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS.
Professor Venable.
This School embraces the following courses:
B. A. COURSE.
A.—First Year. This class meets three times a week (three hours), and
studies the Theory of Arithmetical Notations and Operations; Algebra through
the Binomial Theorem; Indeterminate Coefficients and Theory of Logarithms;
Geometry, Plane and Solid; Geometrical Analysis, with numerous exercises
for original solution; Elementary Plane Trigonometry, embracing the solution
of Triangles, with the use of Logarithms, and some applications to
problems of "Heights and Distances." The preparation desirable for this
class is a good knowledge of Arithmetic, of Algebraic Operations through
Equations of the Second Degree, and of the first three books of Plane
Geometry.
Text-Books.—Todhunter's Algebra; Venable's Legendre's Geometry, with collection
of exercises; Todhunter's Trigonometry for Beginners.
B.—Second Year. This class meets three times a week (three hours), and
studies Geometrical Analysis, with exercises for original solution; Plane
Geometry of two dimensions; Spherical Trigonometry, with applications;
more advanced Algebra, including elements of the Theory of Equations.
The preparation necessary for this class is a thorough knowledge of Algebra
through the Binomial Theorem and Logarithms; of Synthetic Geometry,
Plane and Solid, with a fair training in the original solution of Geometrical
problems; and a knowledge of the elements of Plane Trigonometry, including
the use of Logarithmic tables.
Text-Books.—Todhunter's Plane Trigonometry; Puckle's Conic Sections; Collection
of Exercises in Plane Geometry; Wells's Spherical Trigonometry; Notes on Geometrical
Conics.
Candidates for the B. A. degree who elect Mathematics must complete the
work of this course.
M. A. COURSE.
This class meets three times a week (four and a half hours), and studies
Analytical Geometry of three dimensions, through the discussion of the Conicoids
and some curves in space; Differential and Integral Calculus, with
various applications; a short course in the Calculus of Variations; the Theory
of Equations; and lectures on the History of Mathematics.
Text-Books.—The Professor's Printed Notes on Solid Geometry (Analytical); Todhunter's
Differential Calculus; Courtenay's Calculus; Todhunter's Integral Calculus;
Todhunter's Theory of Equations.
Candidates for the M. A. degree who elect Mathematics must complete
the work of both the above courses. Students who complete both courses
are entitled to a diploma of graduation in the School of Mathematics.
PH. D. COURSE.
In Pure Mathematics advanced work will be given in the Modern Higher
Geometry, Analytical Geometry, the Infinitesimal Calculus, Higher Algebra,
Quaternions, Determinants, and other subjects.
In Mixed Mathematics the student is required to pursue an extended
course of reading under the instruction and guidance of the Professor on the
applications of the Differential and Integral Calculus to Mechanics, Physical
Astronomy, and selected portions of Physics. A diploma of graduation is
conferred in Mixed Mathematics.
Text-Books.—Price's Infinitesimal Calculus, Vols. II. and III.; Cheyne's Planetary
Theory.
Candidates for the Ph. D. degree who elect Mathematics will be assigned
work in both directions. If Mathematics be the chief of the two studies
elected the course will extend over two years.
SCHOOL OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS.
Professor Thornton.
Adjunct Professor Echols.
The work of this School is divided between the Academical and the Engineering
Departments. In the former the following courses are offered, each
of three lectures a week:
General Mechanics.—In this course, which comprises the work in Mechanics
for the B. A. degree, the subjects studied are Statics, Strength of Materials,
Graphical Statics, and the Elementary Dynamics of a Particle and a
Rigid Body. Elementary mathematical methods are employed; but no
student is prepared to undertake the course who has not a sound working
knowledge of Algebra, Geometry, and Plane Trigonometry, with the elements
of Analytical Geometry.
Text-Books.—Arthur Thornton's Theoretical Mechanics; Bovey's Theory of Structures;
Lectures.
Analytical Mechanics.—This course comprises the work in Mechanics
for the M. A. degree. Free use is made of the methods of the Infinitesimal
Calculus, and only suitably-prepared students will be admitted to it. The
subjects studied are the Dynamics of a Particle, Analytical Statics, and the
Dynamics of a Rigid Body.
Text-Books.—Williamson's Treatise on Dynamics; Tait and Steele's Dynamics of a
Particle; Routh's Analytical Statics; Pirie's Rigid Dynamics. For reference and parallel
reading, Minchin's Statics; Routh's Rigid Dynamics.
Post-Graduate work is offered also to candidates for the Ph. D. degree
and other students of Advanced Mathematics. The subjects pursued will be
the Theory of Elasticity, Hydrodynamics, and Thermodynamics. Extended
courses of reading are prescribed, lectures will be delivered on special
topics, and investigations will be planned and carried out in the Mechanical
Laboratory.
SCHOOL OF PRACTICAL ASTRONOMY.
Professor Stone.
B. A. AND M. A. COURSES.
General Astronomy.—First Year.—The aim of this course is to give
such a knowledge of the facts, principles, and methods of Astronomy as
every well-educated person should possess. The preparation required is a
good working knowledge of Arithmetic, Algebra through Quadratics, Plane
of Triangles.
Text-Book.—Young's General Astronomy.
Second Year.—This course is intended to elucidate selected portions of
the subject more fully and from a more strictly mathematical point of view
than can be taken in the course of the first year.
Text-Book.—Gauss's Theoria Motus (Davis's translation).
Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts are required to complete
the work of the first year; those for the degree of Master of Arts must
pass examinations on the subjects embraced in both classes.
PH. D. COURSES.
Practical Astronomy, including a systematic training in making and reducing
astronomical observations; theory and use of the instruments of a fixed
observatory; methods of reducing observations; construction of star-catalogues.
Text-Books.—Doolittle's Practical Astronomy; Chauvenet's Spherical and Practical
Astronomy; various memoirs and volumes of observations in the Observatory Library.
Celestial Mechanics, with practice in numerical computations; general
laws of equilibrium and motion; formation and integration of the differential
equations of motion of a system of bodies subject to the laws of gravity.
Text-Book.—Tisserand's Mécanique Céleste.
A prescribed course in this School, to be agreed upon in a conference of
the professors interested, will be considered as the equivalent of the Graduate
Course in either Mathematics or Natural Philosophy for graduates in the
M. A. course of these schools.
The Astronomical Observatory is situated upon an elevation known
as Mount Jefferson, which furnishes an unobstructed horizon. The principal
building is a rotunda forty-five feet in diameter, and contains the great Clark
refractor of twenty-six inches aperture. The building and instrument are
the gift of Leander J. McCormick, Esq., of Chicago. The computing rooms
are adjoining, and contain clock, chronograph, etc., and a working library.
In a smaller building are a three-inch Fauth transit and a four-inch Kahler
equatorial.
SCHOOL OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.
Professor Smith.
This School offers four courses, each extending through the session of nine
months, and including lectures, text-book study, and laboratory work, as
follows:
General Physics.—The object of this course of lectures (which embraces
the work for the B. A. degree) is to furnish the student with an introduction
to Modern Physics. With the design of laying a scientific basis for
the course, a large space is given at the outset to the discussion of the
cardinal doctrines of motion, force, energy, and potential; and to their
simpler applications in the pressure and motion of sensible masses. This
discussion, while it is elementary, is designed to be in harmony with the
more thorough mathematical treatment of the same topics and to be a helpful
introduction to it.
With this preparation, the student proceeds to the subject of Molecular
Physics, prominence being given to those divisions, like Heat and Electricity,
in which the transformations of energy are most easily followed and measured.
Indeed, throughout the course the laws of energy are kept steadily in
view, and an attempt is made to exhibit the evidence, daily becoming stronger
and clearer, for the belief prevalent among scientists that the entire body of
Physics is a coherent and harmonious system of mechanical truth. This
course includes a series of exercises in the Physical Laboratory, selected
with a view of training the student in the measurement of phenomena.
Text-Books.—The Professor's Syllabus; Everett's Units and Physical Constants.
Sound and Light.—This course (which embraces the work for the M. A.
degree) treats of the theory of undulation and the transfer of Energy by
waves. It includes careful work in the Physical Laboratory.
Text-Books.—Preston's Theory of Light; Everett's Vibratory Motion and Sound;
Glazebrook's Practical Physics.
Electricity and Magnetism.—This class studies Electricity and Magnetism,
with special reference to Electrical Engineering, to which the course
is designed to be an introduction. Besides the mathematical theory, it embraces
Laboratory practice in electrical and magnetic measurements. To
enter this class, the student should be familiar with the elementary facts of
the science, and also with the simpler processes of differentiation and integration.
Text-Books.—Emtage; Ewing; Jackson.
Advanced Physics.—This course includes the study of original memoirs
in special departments of Physics, and of the history of Experimental
Science, together with laboratory work showing independent research. The
report of this work may be the dissertation offered for the attainment of the
Ph. D. degree.
The Physical Laboratory had at its disposal before the recent fire five
connected apartments, all on the same floor. One of these was also used as
a lecture-room; another one was permanently darkened, and in two others
massive piers as to be practically free from sensible tremors. The needful
appliances, in the way of fixtures and apparatus, had been so far supplied as
to furnish a sufficient range of practice for undergraduates, and some facilities
for the advanced student in Practical Physics.[1]
These rooms were destroyed by the fire. It is the purpose of the authorities to restore them in
a much improved form. Should the new apartments not be ready by the autumn of 1896, temporary
arrangements will be made, adequate to the needs of the school.
SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY.
Professor Mallet.
In this School the following courses are offered:
General Chemistry.—This course consists of three lectures a week
throughout the session. The fundamental ideas of chemical science, the relations
of Chemistry to Physics, the laws expressing the facts of chemical
combination by weight and by volume, the atomic theory as at present developed
in connection with Chemistry, the chemical nomenclature and symbols
now in use, and a general survey of the Descriptive Chemistry of the
elements and their compounds, inorganic and organic, are brought forward
in order, with incidental allusion to the applications in the arts and manufactures
of the facts mentioned.
Text-Books.—Fownes's Chemistry (last edition); Syllabus of the Professor's Lectures.
Recommended for Reference.—Roscoe and Schorlemmer's (or Miller's) Elements of
Chemistry; Lothar Meyer's Outlines of Theoretical Chemistry (English translation);
Bernthsen's Text-book of Organic Chemistry, translated by McGowan; Watt's Dictionary
of Chemistry.
Industrial Chemistry.—This course, in which also three lectures a week
are delivered, examines in detail the chemical principles and processes
specially concerned in the more important arts and manufactures, upon
which the development of the natural resources of the country in large measure
depends, the opportunity being thus presented of preparation for such
positions as those of the miner and metallurgist, the chemical manufacturer,
the dyer, bleacher, tanner, sugar-refiner, etc.
Text-Book.—Wagner's Chemical Technology. Recommended for Reference.—Richardson
and Watts's Chemical Technology; Muspratt's Chemistry as Applied to Arts and
Manufactures; Ure's Dictionary of Arts and Manufactures; Girardin's Leçons de Chimie
Élémentaire appliquée aux Arts Industriels; Percy's Metallurgy, etc.
The lectures in both courses are illustrated by suitable experiments, and
by such specimens, models, drawings, etc., as the various subjects require.
of Industrial Chemistry have been procured at much expense and pains in
this country, England, France and Germany, and are unusually extensive
and good; amongst the best on this side of the Atlantic.
In both courses there are one or more reviews each week of the subjects
under discussion, involving questions put by, as well as to, the students; and
exercises in writing are from time to time given out to afford practice in the
calculations which are needed by the chemist.
Post-Graduate work is offered in either course, and either or both may
be taken by the candidate for the Ph. D. degree. Laboratory work will be
required on subjects involving original investigation. Advanced reading
may also be prescribed, especially in the shape of the literature of particular
topics, to be looked up from various sources and condensed by the student.
Graduation in General Chemistry is required for the B. A. degree, graduation
in both General and Industrial Chemistry for the M. A. For admission
to a post-graduate course in the School of Chemistry or in the School of
Analytical Chemistry, previous graduation in both the schools named will be
required; but this part of the requirement may be waived, provided satisfactory
evidence be furnished that the student has already made equivalent
attainments elsewhere.
SCHOOL OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY.
Professor Dunnington.
The regular work of this School, constituting a complete course in Practical
Chemistry, is arranged in two divisions, as follows:
1. A regularly arranged course in Chemical Manipulation is first given.
This is followed by Blow-pipe Analysis and Fire Assays of ores of lead, silver,
and gold. A systematic course in Inorganic Qualitative Analysis follows,
with practice in the analysis of mixtures of salts, alloys, ores, and so
on. Stoichiometry is taught by exercises and occasional lectures. Instruction
in the elements of Quantitative Analysis completes this division of the
course, which extends over the first half-session.
2. The work of the second division is an extended course of Quantitative
Analysis, both gravimetric and volumetric. The student determines the
composition of ores, minerals, clays, soils, manures, technical products, and
so on. As he advances in the course he is encouraged to undertake original
research and assisted in its prosecution; and, in determining his fitness for
graduation, work of this kind is considered as having great weight.
Five lessons are given each week, and the Laboratory is open to students
six days in the week during all the working hours of the day.
Students may matriculate either for the Full Course or for the First Course,
but candidates for graduation are required to complete the Full Course.
Those who accomplish it are prepared for work as Analytical Chemists,
Assayers, or Teachers of Chemistry.
Among the works recommended to laboratory students are: Fresenius's Qualitative
and Quantitative Analysis; Venable's Qualitative Analysis (2d ed.); Greville Williams's
Hand-book of Chemical Manipulation; Woehler's Examples for Practice in Chemical
Analysis; Foye's Hand-book of Mineralogy; A. Classen's Elementary Quantitative
Analysis.
In addition to the foregoing, the following Special Courses are given in
this School. They are open without additional charge to the regular students
of the School. For fees to others, see Expenses.
1. A laboratory course on Determinative Mineralogy for students of
Engineering, embracing Blow-pipe Analysis, Determinative Mineralogy, and
the application of chemical processes to the examination of potable waters,
coals, clays, building stones, and other materials employed in Engineering.
2. A laboratory course in Assaying, including all of the above mentioned
course on Determinative Mineralogy, together with Fire Assaying of
ores of lead, silver, gold, etc., and practice in volumetric and galvanic determinations,
such as are commonly employed in the valuation of certain
technical products and ores.
3. A laboratory course of twelve lessons in Practical Pharmacy, including
the compounding and dispensing of drugs. The pursuit of this course
will enable the practitioner satisfactorily to dispense medicines, and it will
afford him needed familiarity with handling chemicals and the forms of
prescriptions.
4. A course of twenty-four lectures on Agricultural Chemistry, including
a discussion of the chemical and physical properties of the atmosphere,
of soils and of plants; the chemistry of the processes of vegetable life as far
as they are related to Agriculture; the chemical composition and preparation
of manures; the chemistry of stock feeding, and so on. This course is open
without charge to students from Virginia and to farmers who are not matriculated
students.
For Reference.—Johnston's and Cameron's Elements of Agricultural Chemistry and
Geology (17th ed.); Johnson's How Crops Grow; Johnson's How Crops Feed; Armsby's
Manual of Cattle Feeding.
The Post-Graduate Course comprises practice in the more elaborate
processes of analysis, study of methods, and original investigations in the
economic interest.
The Chemical Laboratory is a building planned and erected for the purpose.
It is warmed throughout by hot water, completely fitted with the most
approved appliances, and stocked with apparatus, models, materials, and
specimens. The commodious lecture-room, with work and store-rooms attached,
is provided with every convenience for exhibiting a complete series
of experiments illustrating the lectures on General Chemistry. The large
room assigned to Analytical Chemistry will accommodate fifty working students,
and is furnished with work-tables, gas, water, and all proper laboratory
fixtures; smaller rooms are devoted to weighing, evaporations, assaying,
etc., and all requisite apparatus, chemicals, minerals, materials for analysis,
etc., are kept constantly supplied by home purchase and importation.
The Museum of Industrial Chemistry, contained in the same building,
consists of a very large number of specimens, collected at much expense and
pains in this country and abroad, to illustrate the products and processes of
Chemistry applied to the arts and manufactures, and is so arranged as to be
a most valuable aid to the student of Industrial Chemistry.
CORCORAN SCHOOL OF NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY.
Professor Fontaine.
In this School two subjects are taught, Geology and Descriptive Mineralogy.
There are two courses—first, a course embracing the requisites in Geology for
the attainment of the degree of Bachelor of Arts; and second, a course
covering what is required in Mineralogy and Geology for the degree of Master
of Arts.
B. A. COURSE.
Three lectures a week will be given throughout the session. The design
of the course is to enable the student to obtain such a knowledge of the
science of Geology as should be possessed by a well-educated man. As full
an exposition of the fundamental principles will be given as the time will
allow.
Text-Books.—Dana's Manual of Geology. The instruction will be in part by lecture.
M. A. COURSE.
This course consists of two divisions, one in Mineralogy, the other in
Geology.
Mineralogy.—The course in Mineralogy closes with the examination which
takes place in January. Three lectures a week are given in it. In this
course attention is paid to crystallography, and especially to the physical
properties of minerals. In Descriptive Mineralogy the relations, geological
occurrence, and history of the individual species are made prominent.
Geology.—This division of the course begins after the examination on
Mineralogy in January. Three lectures a week will be given. A knowledge
of the principles taught in the B. A. course will be assumed. The more
general and complicated problems in all the branches of Geology will be dealt
with in this course. As thorough a treatment as possible will be given of
Stratigraphy, Lithology, and Palæontology. More stress will be laid on the
methods of field-work and the application of geological principles. The aim
will be to give such a knowledge of the subject as may be useful to the
student in bread-winning pursuits, or may serve as a basis for the more specialized
course required for the attainment of the degree of Ph. D.
Text-Books.—Dana's Manual of Geology. For Reference.—Geikie's Text-Book of
Geology. The instruction will be in part by lecture.
PH. D. COURSE.
The Post-Graduate Course in this School is so arranged as to enable the
student to concentrate his efforts in some special line of study. Selections
will be made from one or both of the subjects taught in the School. The
work will be adapted to the wants of the student, and, as far as possible,
original research will be required in the treatment of the branches chosen.
Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts are required to pass in
the B. A. Course, and those for the degree of Master of Arts in the M.
A. Course in Geology and in Mineralogy, in addition to the B. A. Course.
For the degree of Doctor of Philosophy the candidate must, in addition
to the requisites for the degree of Master of Arts, complete the Post-Graduate
Course.
The Lewis Brooks Museum contains collections illustrating the main
sub-divisions of Natural History. Each of the collections is arranged so as
to exemplify the principles of the science, and at the same time offers a large
variety of subjects for advanced study. In Geology the specimens show all
the different kinds of rocks, classified according to mineral character and the
formations in which they occur; the collection of fossils, plaster casts, maps,
etc., is exceptionally fine, and fully illustrates Historical Geology. In Mineralogy
the principles of the science are made plain by well-chosen suits of
specimens, models of crystals, etc.; the general collection of minerals contains
all the important minerals, and many of the rarer ones, in good specimens.
skeletons, stuffed animals, dried specimens, plaster casts, etc. In Botany the
collections contain charts, papier-maché models of flowers and fruits, sections
of wood, etc.; the bulk of the collection is in the form of an herbarium,
selected from the most important and interesting botanical regions of the
world. In addition to the above, a beginning has been made of a collection
to illustrate the geology and mineralogy of the State of Virginia, and this
will be increased as rapidly as possible.
These large and carefully selected collections of geological and mineralogical
objects afford unsurpassed facilities for the full illustration of the principles
taught. As free access to these collections is allowed the student, he
can find in their study an opportunity, rarely obtained, for gaining a practical
acquaintance with natural objects acquired from various parts of the
world, and chosen for their typical character. These collections are especially
useful to students pursuing Post-Graduate courses of study in Geology and
Mineralogy.
The Professor, when the number of applicants is sufficient, organizes a
party of geological exploration. The field-work is done in the month of
July, and is entirely optional with the students. Persons engaged in the
study of Geology and Mineralogy may, although not members of the University
class, with the consent of the Professor, and on paying $25 to the
Proctor, join the exploring party.
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.
Two introductory courses are offered, each of which is intended to serve
as a means of rendering the student familiar with the method, the aims, and
the fundamental laws of Biology while he is engaged in the one case with
the study of plants, in the other with that of a large and important group
of animals. Each course consists of three lectures a week throughout the
exercises. Graduation in either of these courses may be offered as one
of the electives for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
I. Botany.—This course comprises 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 the great
economic and sanitary importance of the Bacteria, their morphology and
physiology is made the subject of a special course of lectures before the students
of the Medical Department as a suitable preliminary to the specific
discussion of the principal pathogenic species in the School of Pathology. To
this course members of the class in Botany are admitted at their option.
Text-Books.—Warming's Systematic Botany (Potter tr.); Gray's Manual (6th edition).
II. Comparative Anatomy.—This course is devoted to the study of the
anatomy, histology, and embryology of Vertebrata, and to the principles
of animal physiology. The anatomical and histological structure of the
vertebrate body will be studied, as illustrated by a representative series of
forms; and one or more systems of organs discussed and examined comparatively
in both the adult and the developing organism. The amount of histological
work involved in this course includes (and exceeds) that of the
course in Histology of the Medical Department; and members of the class
who pass with the required standing will receive credit for that subject in
the medical course if they so desire.
Text-Books.—Wiedersheim's Comparative Anatomy (Parker tr.); Parker's Zootomy;
the Professor's Notes on Histology and Embryology.
In addition to the introductory or B. A. courses above described, the following
advanced courses are offered to students prepared to undertake them. In
each the work will be chiefly done in the laboratory, the student being in
large measure independent of his associates; such lectures will be given from
time to time and such reading indicated as will aid the student in an independent
investigation of the subject in hand. The relation of these courses
to degrees is indicated below; the completion of course V, as a Ph. D. course,
involves summer work at a seaside laboratory as an essential.
III. Vegetable Morphology.—An advanced course in Botany, devoted
chiefly to the study of the Algae and Fungi, and to the Histology of the
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
(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
and tillage of soils, systems of rotation and allied topics).
Text-Books for 1896-'97.—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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