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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.
III. 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 1898-99 will be the Nervous Axis;
the Vascular System; the Renal Apparatus; 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.
IV. Zoölogy.—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
by their structural affinities.
Text-Book.—Parker and Haswell's Text-Book of Zoology. For reference: Lang's
Text-Book of Comparative Anatomy; Korschelt and Heider's Embryology of Invertebrates.
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. Courses
III and IV will not both be given the same year at present.
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