ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



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The instruction includes elementary and 

 intermediate courses in zoology for students 

 of the College, also advanced lecture and re- 

 search courses for graduates in general zo- 

 ology, experimental zoology, comparative 

 anatomy, vertebrate palaeontology, embryology 

 and cellular biology. These are conducted in 

 the laboratories on the top floor of Schermer- 

 horn Hall, which stands at the northeast cor- 

 ner of the University quadrangle. Courses 

 for medical students in anatomy, histology, 

 physiology and embryology are given at the 

 College of Physicians and Surgeons in West 

 Forty-ninth Street. 



The Zoological Department maintains its 

 own library, aquarium and a teaching mu- 

 seum, but relies for the purposes of a general 

 museum on the American Museum of Natural 

 History, the great collections of which are 

 available for study by all qualified students. 

 Opportunities for experimental and embry- 

 ological research are also offered in the Zoo- 

 logical Park and the New York Aquarium. 

 For marine study students avail themselves 

 of the opportunities afforded by the Woods 

 Hole, Cold Spring Harbor, Harpsvvell and 

 Naples Stations. The department has also 

 sent out from among its staff' and graduates a 

 number of special investigators to various 

 collecting regions, including especially Puget 

 Sound, Alaska, Southern California, Ber- 

 muda, Egypt, Japan and the Philippines. 



University lecture courses, partly by lec- 

 turers from other institutions of this coun- 

 try and abroad, have led to the publication of 

 the Columbia University Biological Series, 

 begun in 1893, and now numbering ten vol- 

 umes. Experimental and cytological studies 

 appear chiefly in the Journal of Experimental 

 Zoology. Other researches are chiefly pub- 

 lished in the Transactions of the Neiv York 

 Academy of Sciences and in Bulletins and 

 Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural 

 History. 



The purpose of the instruction and research 

 of the department is to cover the advanced 

 aspects of all the chief branches of modern 

 zoologv. 



NEW YORK UNIVERSITY. 



DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY. 



THIS department is in connection with the 

 University undergraduate colleges at Uni- 

 versity Heights, and is best reached by the 

 Subway, with a transfer at the i8ist Street 

 Station to the Aqueduct Avenue trolley seven 

 minutes direct to the College Campus. 



History. The Department of Biology, in- 

 cluding Zoology, of New York University as 

 a distinct department, commanding the whole 

 time of a head professor with one or more 

 assistants, was organized in 1894 upon the 

 removal of the undergraduate schools of New 

 York University to University Heights. 

 Charles Lawrence Bristol, graduate of the 

 New York University College in the Class of 

 1883, and Doctor of Philosophy from the 

 University of Chicago of 1896, and for a time 

 Professor of Zoology in the State University 

 of South Dakota, was made head professor. 

 His principal assistants have been Frederick 

 Walton Carpenter, now Professor of Biology 

 in the University of Illinois, and George Wil- 

 liam Bartelmez. 



Plan and Scope. The work of the Biologi- 

 cal Department has been chiefly the instruc- 

 tion of the undergraduates in the University 

 College of Arts and Pure Science. This Col- 

 lege has for thirteen years employed the group 

 system and both in the Natural Science Group 

 and the Medical Preparatory Group Biology 

 is a required study throughout three years, be- 

 ginning with the Sophomore Year. Not more 

 than one course in any year in Biology has 

 been offered in the Graduate School of the 

 University. This limitation arises from the 

 lack of an enlarged equipment and endow- 

 ment. 



Station in Bermuda. For ten years this de- 

 partment of the University has maintained a 

 Summer Biological Station in Bermuda in 

 charge of Professor Bristol. He has devoted 

 himself largely to a reconnaissance of the reef 

 and island fauna and to research in various 

 directions. This was pioneer work in that 

 hitherto little known zoological field. One of 

 the results of this effort has been to bring 

 Bermuda prominently to the attention of 

 American zoologists and to prepare the way 

 for a permanent Biological Station. Requests 

 for information concerning the facilities and 

 opportunities of this New York University 

 Biological Station in the Bermudas may be 

 addressed to Professor Charles L. Bristol, at 

 University Heights. 



Laboratory Building. The Andrew H. 

 Green Laboratory was built for biological 

 work, which at present, however, occupies only 

 the cellar and one story, the other story being 

 temporarily used for the Department of Draw- 

 ing. The building is no feet long and about 

 30 feet wide. There is a lecture hall seating 

 100 students, equipped with projecting Ian- 



