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a course of thirty lectures in conjunction with the Biological 

 Departments of Exeter and Magdalen Colleges,* followed by 

 two hours' practical work for " Dissections " and " Experi- 

 ments in Vegetable Physiology." 



In October, 1874, a comprehensive botanical course was 

 arranged, comprising eight lectures on the Lower Cryptogams 

 in Michaelmas Term, eight on the Higher Cryptogams in Lent 

 Term, and twenty-four on Phanerogams in the Summer Term ; 

 but the lectures do not appear to have been well attended, 

 and were supplanted in the Summer Term by a most successful 

 biological course, which, as Sir Ray Lankester informs me, 

 was very popular. 



Deficiencies in the older professorial courses of instruction 

 had been felt so acutely, that in April, 1875, biological 

 teaching according, to newer methods of practical microscopy 

 was given by Professor Lawson and Mr. Lankester of Exeter 

 College in the Herbarium at the Botanic Garden. 



The lecture hour was from 10 to n a.m.; the laboratory 

 work from n a.m. to 12.30 p.m., and from 1.30 to 4 p.m. 

 every day. The fee was the very moderate one of two 

 guineas. The following is an outline of the subject-matter 

 of the lectures, and an enumeration of the types, whose 

 structure and (where possible) life-history the student was 

 enabled to examine in actual specimens provided for the 

 purpose : 



PLANTS. Class i. : Algae, i. Palwella, 2. Protococcus, 3. Volvox, 4. 

 Nostoc, 5. Oscillatoria, 6. Bacterium, 7. Closttrium^ 8. Bacillaria, 9. 

 Zygnema, 10. Vaucheria, II. FUCUS, 12. Ceranmim. Class ii. : Fungi. 

 13. Torula, 14. Penicillium, 15. Aethalium (plasmodiurn), 16. Ascophorai 

 17. Peziza, 18. Agaricus. Class iii. : Muscales. 19. Marchantia, 20. 



* To these Combined College Lectures, in Michaelmas, 1873, Mr. 

 Lankester contributed an "Introduction to Biology the Study of 

 Homologies " at Exeter College, while Mr. Chapman lectured on " The 

 Chemistry and Physiology of the Albumens" at the Magdalen Laboratory. 

 In the next year, 1874, Mr. Chapman lectured on "The Comparative 

 Anatomy of Vertebrata," and Mr. Yule gave a series of practical demon- 

 strations in Experimental Physiology. 



