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and relationships of the principal genera of grasses. Field, her- 
barium and laboratory. Mr. Nas 
General Palaeobotany.—Developmental history and arrange- 
ment of the fossil flora of some selected locality. Critical study 
of structure. Laboratory field and museum. Doctor Hollick. 
Developmental Taxonomy.—Fossil ancestors of some family of 
plants. Comparative study of form and structure. Laboratory 
and museum. Doctor Britton, Doctor Hollic 
Embryology of Spermatophyta. ee embryology of 
special groups. Special embryological problems. Technique. 
Laboratory. Professor Llo 
Special Taxonomy. Seine study of a family or genus of 
plants of not less than fifty species. The group may be chosen 
from the entire range of the vegetable world. Field, herbarium, 
laboratory, conservatories and garden. Directed, according to the 
group chosen, by Professor Underwood, Doctor Howe, Doctor 
Britton, Doctor Small, Doctor Rydberg, Mr. Nash, Professor 
Burgess, Mrs. Britton. 
Regional Botany.—Collection, determination and comparative 
study of the plants of some restricted area. Field, herbarium 
and laboratory. Professor Underwood ; Doctor Britton. 
Cretaceous Flora of Eastern North America.—Collection and 
determination of specimens of some station, with attention to 
stratigraphic relations. Field and laboratory. Doctor Hollick. 
Physiology of Nutrition.—Treated from a chemical standpoint. 
Laboratory. Doctor Richards. 
Ecological Physiology —-Problems in adaptive reactions, in form, 
structure and movements, to external energy and environmental 
factors. Field and laboratory. DoctorMacDougal; Doctor Curtis. 
Physiological Anatomy.—Problems in the relationships of 
tissues and functions. Laboratory. Doctor Curtis. 
General Phystology.—Problems in absorption, excretion, nutri- 
tion and transformations of energy, growth, the general irritable 
organization of the plant and mechanism of movement. Labora- 
tory. Doctor MacDougal’; Doctor Curtis. 
General Pathology —Study of diseases caused by parasitic 
fungi, and bacteria with special attention to the morphology of 
