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HISTOLOGY AND EMBRYOLOGY.

Professor Tuttle.

Normal Histology is taught by lectures, accompanied by practical work
in the laboratory, which is amply equipped for the purpose. The class is
divided into working sections of forty-eight, that number of desks being provided
with microscopes, accessory apparatus, and all necessary reagents. The
primary object of the course is to make the student practically familiar with
the normal appearance and characteristics of the structural elements of the
body, their groupings into tissues, and the disposition and relations of the
latter as making up the various organs of the body. As a means to this
end, students are carefully trained in the use of the microscope, and, as much
as practicable, in histological technique. The accuracy and readiness of the

knowledge acquired is tested for each student by individual practical examination,
in which he is required to name and describe at sight preparations
of tissues and sections of organs submitted to him; the usual written examination
must also be passed.

Embryology.—The course in Histology is followed and supplemented by
a course discussing the formation of the embryo and the fœtal appendages,
of the tissues, and of the organs of the body. The laboratory is provided
with a valuable set of preparations illustrating the embryology of the lower
vertebrates, and a collection of human embryos of various stages from which
anatomical and histological preparations are made.

Text-Books.—Klein's, Piersol's, or Shaefer's Histology; Shaefer's, Haddon's or
Minot's Embryology; the Professor's Syllabus.