Botany and Entomology.

Professor Tracy.

Instruction in botany is given during two semesters. The second semester of [unclear: the] Freshman year is devoted to the study of structural and systematic botany. Less [unclear: attention], however, is given to the use of the text-book than is required for the [unclear: study] of living plants. Each student is required to observe these for himself; to [unclear: study] their forms, habits and actions and the arrangement of their parts, and to [unclear: compare] them carefully with each other. The University greenhouse furnishes [unclear: abundant] means of illustration at all seasons of the year, and during the first semes [unclear: are] of the study, students are required to take weekly exercises in drawing specified parts of plants.

For admission to the class in structural botany students must have completed [unclear: Arithmetic], Geography, English grammar and one semester of Art.

During the second semester of the Sophomore year the subject of Economic [unclear: Botany] is taken up and the more important natural orders are studied with reference [unclear: to] their general characters and the important plants of each. The instruction is [unclear: given] by lectures, supplemented by means of living plants from the greenhouses, [unclear: and] an outline is given of the processes of manufacture of vegetable products [unclear: bed] for food, clothing, drinks, oils, dyes, etc.

During the present year several compound microscopes and a large number of [unclear: amounted] objects for the lantern have been procured and are frequently used for the Illustration of lectures.

Entomology.

Instruction in Entomology is given almost entirely by means of lectures, for which the large collection of insects in the University Museum affords a valuable [unclear: leans] of illustration. By the aid of the microscope, the student is shown the [unclear: peculiarities] of insect anatomy; and he receives instruction in insect transformation and typical forms, classification and geographical distribution. Especial [unclear: prominence] is given to the life history and habits of injurious species, and the methods [unclear: of] checking their ravages.

Students in the course in Agriculture receive instruction in Bee-keeping by a [unclear: special] course of lectures, and are made familiar with the work by practice in the apiary.

Zoology.

Prof. Spencer.

Preceding this subject there is a course of instruction in Human Anatomy and [unclear: Physiology]. These subjects occupy the first half of the first semester of the Junior [unclear: year]. The second half of the semester is devoted to Zoology. The lectures are [unclear: Illustrated] by diagrams and specimens representing the Anatomy of the Classes and orders of the Animal Kingdom.

For admission of Academic students to the class of Zoology, they must have [unclear: completed] the course in Anatomy and Physiology as well as Botany.