. Annual catalogue of Swarthmore College. l studies is to train students in the rightmethods of thinking and the interpretation of the facts and problemscontinually presented to them by natural objects. Lectures, demonstrations, and text-books are employed in con-nection with laboratory work. The course is required of all Sciencestudents. The Course is arranged as follows : Freshman Class.—Required of Science Students.—Elements ofBiology (Animals and Plants). Text-books.—Trotters Abstract of Zoology ; Coltons Prac-tical Zoology; Grays Botan\. Junior Class.—Morphology and Physiology of a high f
. Annual catalogue of Swarthmore College. l studies is to train students in the rightmethods of thinking and the interpretation of the facts and problemscontinually presented to them by natural objects. Lectures, demonstrations, and text-books are employed in con-nection with laboratory work. The course is required of all Sciencestudents. The Course is arranged as follows : Freshman Class.—Required of Science Students.—Elements ofBiology (Animals and Plants). Text-books.—Trotters Abstract of Zoology ; Coltons Prac-tical Zoology; Grays Botan\. Junior Class.—Morphology and Physiology of a high form ofanimal. Text-books.—Mivart, The Cat; Huxley & YoumansPhysiology; Foster &: Langley, Practical Physiology. Senior Class.—Vertebrate Morphology. Geology and Physi-ography (elective). Huxley, Anatomy of Vertebrated & Moule, Hand-books of Independent JVork.—Preparation and writing of a thesis on somebiological subject. Tlie time for work to be arranged with the Pro-fessor. (28). SWARTHMORE COLLEGE. 29 The Museum. Tlie Museum of the College is strictly a teaching collection, andthe specimens from its cases are in constant use in the lectures andlaboratories in Natural History ; it is growing steadily, but always inthe direction of rendering more perfect the means of illustrating thedifferent departments of Natural History, and with no intention ofmaking it a collection of curiosities or miscellaneous articles, howeverinteresting they may be in their way. It includes the following collections : 1. The Joseph Leidy Collection of Minerals, the result of thirtyyears discriminative collecting by its founder, occupies four largedouble cases, and consists of exceedingly choice cabinet specimens ofcrystallized minerals, characteristic rocks and ores, and transparent andopaque models of the various systems of crystallization. 2. The Collection of Comparative Osteology consists of a large seriesof partial and complete skeletons, prepared at
Size: 1190px × 2101px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpublisherphila, bookyear1902
