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M. A.
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 Algæ and Fungi,
and to the histology and embryology of the Vascular
Plants. The completion of Course I, or its equivalent
either here or elsewhere, is required as a preliminary to
this course.
The subjects offered for the session of 1897-98 will be
the Siphoneæ; the Laminariaceæ; the Nemalionales; the
Phycomycetes; and the histology and development of
Botrychium.
Text-Books.—The library of the department is especially well supplied
with standard works, monographs, and periodicals pertaining to
Cryptogamic Botany.
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.
The subjects for the work of the session of 1897-98
will be the Nervous Axis; the Cephalic Musculature;
the Adenoid Bodies; and the Tunicata.
Text-Books will be indicated as needed. The library of the department
contains a large amount of standard and periodical literature bearing
on the subject matter of this course.
The completion of 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.
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