Description of Courses 



B. SPECIAL WORK IN ALLIED SUBJECTS 



ENGINEERING 



Surveying, Course 4, Use of instruments. Two hours, first or 

 second semester. Professor DAVIS and Assistant Professor MERRICK. 



Largely field work in which the student aquires the ability to use 

 different surveying instruments with reasonable precision. 



Topography, Course 5. Transit and stadia, plain table and cam- 

 era. Held work and drawing. Five hours , first or second semester. 

 Professor DAVIS and Assistant Professor MERRICK. 



In this course the student learns to do regular surveying work 

 and map making. 



Mechanic jl Engineering, Course Special course for forestry 

 students. Three hours, first semester. Professor ALLEN. 



This course in Mechanical Engineering is intended to acquaint 

 the student with the principles and practice in the use of mechanical 

 devices, such as are used in heavy or bulky materials, and have come 

 into use so extensively in modern logging. 



In addition to the above courses it is expected that special lectures 

 will be delivered presenting expert knowledge of certain important 

 phases of Forest Engineering. 



BOTANY 



7. General Morphology and Physiology. Five hours. Lectures, 

 Tu, Th, at 8. Room 12, U. H. Laboratory work, afternoons. 

 Professor NEWCOMBE. 



Cell structure, tissue structure, and organography ; the cell the- 

 ory, mitosis, and heredity; instruction in technique. 



9. Morphology and Classification of Fungi. This course deals with 

 morphology, classification, life-history and economic relations of 

 fungi. Students collect and identify material, and become ac- 

 quainted with the most important literature on the subject. 

 Forestry students elect this course as a four hour course and 

 give special attention to the relation of fungi to forest growth. 

 Three or more hours', hours to be arranged] first semester. Assis- 

 tant Professor POLLOCK. 



12. Field Ecology. The identification of trees, schrubs, and herba- 

 ceous plants, and their grouping into societies; the relation of 

 plants to light, soil, moisture, and the general factors in the en- 

 vironment. Three hours, second semester. Dr. BURNS. 



