20 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



devoted 



some 

 spring 



montlis of residence in the 



THE HENRY SHAW SCHOOL OF BOTANY. 



At the end of the last college year, Mr. A. C. Life, who had 

 served efficiently as Instructor for three years, resigned his 

 position to accept an appointment in the University of 



Southern 



created has been 



by the appointment of Mr. W. A. Ruth as 



School of Botany. 

 A re-arrangement has been made of the el 



undergraduate students,"* 



bein 



Catalogue as follows: 



1-2. Botany: Elementary Morphology and Organography. Labora- 

 tory work, with supplementary lectures and quizzes, dealing with the 

 form and structure of plants, with special reference to their life pro- 

 cesses, including ecological adaptations, and to Systematic Botany, 



Students who have taken Courses 1 and 2 may join the field excur- 

 sions in a subsequent spring, for advanced ecological study counting for 

 a credit of 1 unit. In such cases a thesis will be required of the student 

 upon a topic assigned by the instructor. 



4- Plant Relations: Lectures, with demonstrations, on the vegetable 

 kingdom: Dealing with the structure and physiology of plants, their re- 

 lations to environment, past history, variation, heredity, evolution, 

 economic uses, etc. Second term, twice a week. 1 unit. Open to all 



dasses. 



5-6. Plant Physiology, including Ecology. Laboratory work, with 



supplementary lectures, 



7-8. Cytological Technique. Laboratory work in the cultivation and 

 examination of bacteria and the methods of histological investigation, 

 combined with a study of the principal types of plant anatomy 

 specially adapted to the needs of students intending to study medicine. 



9-10. Systematic Botany. Laboratory and field work, with supple- 

 mentary lectures, dealing with the comparative structure and the classi- 

 fication of plants. 



11-12. Plant Pathology and Applied Mycology. Laboratory work. 



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The enrollment for the first term of 1907-8 was :— " Biology 

 1," 10; " Botany 1," 6; " Botany 5," 12; " Botany 7," 2; 



comparison see 

 2h course is ent 



otherwise 



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