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Ninety-five of this number have received practical teaching 

 in the laboratory, as well as lecture-room instruction. The 

 first year's course consisted of twenty-four lectures and ninety 

 hours of practical exercise, under the supervision of the in- 

 structor. This was attended by the members of the junior 

 class, scientific students and some teachers. The second 

 year's course consisted of one hundred and twelve hours of 

 lectures and discussions, and an equal amount of supervised 

 laboratory work. This course was attended by members of 

 the senior class, the divinity school, about half a dozen teach- 

 ers, and several university students. The first year's course 

 is designed to furnish a course of practical instruction in ac- 

 cordance with the system pursued since the foundation of the 

 department of Zoology in the Lawrence Scientific School. 

 The student is compelled to come at once into the position of 

 an investigator, receiving only such assistance as may be 

 required to help him to help himself. The first year's lectures 

 are designed only as an adjunct to the other work. When 

 the students have been carried, in a practical way, through 

 one group of animals, becoming acquainted with its outlines 

 by the use of typical forms, the group is taken up in the 

 course of lectures and reviewed. In the second year's course 

 the same system of practical work is continued, but each 

 student is now required to take up some limited subject and 

 devote time enough to his work to attain a thorough knowl- 

 edge of it. Besides this practical work, a course of lectures, 

 readings and discussions has been used, to acquaint the students 

 with the outlines of the history of Zoology, from Aristotle to 

 the present day. In this course the original monographs and 

 treatises of the great masters have been taken up wherever it was 

 practicable. Every student has been required to keep a note- 

 book with extended notes and drawings concerning the practi- 

 cal work he has done. This remains in the possession of the 

 instructor, except when in use in the laboratory, and serves 

 as a continuous test of the status of the student. Besides 

 the above described instruction, which was given by the assis- 

 tant in charge, Mr. Tuttle was employed by the university 

 authorities, to give a course of instruction on the use of the 

 microscope. This course, which was completed in one term, 

 was sufficiently extended to enable the students to acquire a 



