and Laboratory Methods. 



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of instruction in zoology, botany and physiology at the University, by afifording 

 the students the opportunity of seaside study and to enable the more advanced 

 to begin various lines of investigation under proper guidance. 



A not less important field finally is the endeavor to raise the standard of sci- 

 entific instruction in the public schools of the state by giving teachers and others 

 facilities for becoming acquainted with the marine fauna and flora and the best 

 methods of their study. For students receiving instruction, a fee of twenty-five 

 dollars is charged for the session, to investigators the laboratory is free. A reg- 

 ular summer session of six weeks is held, beginning early in June. 



The courses offered vary somewhat from year to year, those of the session of 

 1901 being the following : 



I. General Zoology. Dr. G. C. Price. Lectures, laboratory dissections and 

 field work upon representative forms of each of the larger groups of marine ani- 

 mals. In addition to the anatomical work the embryology of several forms is 

 briefly followed. 



II. Elementary Botany. Dr. G. J. Peirce. Lectures and laboratory work 

 mainly upon the morphology and physiology of the marine and fresh water algae, 

 together with collecting and field study. 



III. Advanced Course on the Structure and Physiology of the Algae. Dr. 

 G. J. Peirce. Character of the work to be determined largely by the previous 

 training and inclinations of the student. 



IV. Embryology. Dr. G. C. Price. Principally devoted to the develop- 

 ment of the vertebrates. 



V. Comparative Morphology and Histology of the Nervous System and 

 Sense Organs. Dr. F. M. McFarland. Lectures and laboratory work upon a 

 series of vertebrate and invertebrate forms. 



VI. Advanced Invertebrate Zoology. Dr. F. M. McFarland. Detailed 

 study of the morphology and classification of one or more groups of marine in- 

 vertebrates. 



VII. General Ornithology. Mr. J. Grinnell. Lectures on distribution, 

 migration, moult, classification and economic relations of birds. Field study 

 upon notes and habits, and laboratory work upon bird anatomy, plumage struc- 

 tures, identification of specimens and the preparation of study skins. 



In addition to the above courses supervision of those beginning investiga- 

 tion in Embryology, Plant Physiology, Histology and Cytology was given by Drs. 

 Price, Peirce and McFarland. 



The following statistics of attendance during the first decade of the labora- 

 tory's existence shows a most encouraging condition : 



