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ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT. 169
Course 3 must be preceded by courses 1 and 2,
or their equivalent.
4. Research and Thesis. Laboratory work throughout the year.
Assistant Professor Hopkins.
MICROSCOPY, HISTOLOGY AND EMBRYOLOGY.
As indicated by the following courses, this department offers ele
mentary and advanced instruction in the theory and use of the micro
scope and its accessories, in photo-micrography, in vertebrate histology
and vertebrate embryology ; and opportunities for research in all of
these subjects.
The rooms for the use of this department are on the third floor of
the Veterinary College. They are ample and almost perfectly lighted,
and consist of a large general laboratory, two research laboratories,
and the private laboratories of the professors in charge, where special
demonstrations of difficult subjects are given to small groups of
students.
The material equipment consists of a good supply of modern micro
scopes, each one of which is fitted with a low and medium power dry
objective and a 2 m.m. homogeneous immersion objective. Camera
lucidas, polariscopes, micro-spectroscopes,
photo-micrographic came
ras, and other special apparatus are in sufficient numbers to give each
student opportunity for personally learning to use them, and for
applying them to any special study in which they are called for. The
general and research laboratories are large, and are equipped with
microtomes, incubators, aquariums, etc The collection of histologic
and embryologic specimens is extensive and constantly increasing.
Sets of typical specimens are available for study and comparison by
the students.
The aim of the department is to bring the student into direct contact
with the truths of nature, and hence, while there are lectures to give
broad and general views, there is a large amount of laboratory work
in which the facts are learned at first hand, and the methods and
manipulations necessary for acquiring the facts, are practiced by each
student. It is recognized that less ground can be covered in a given
time in this way, but it is believed, and experience has confirmed the
belief,
that the intellectual independence and the power to acquire
knowledge direct from nature which is gained by this personal work,
is of far higher value than the facts and theories that might be learned
in the same time from books and lectures alone, or from specimens
prepared some other by individual.
This lake region with its rich and varied fauna is especially favorable
for investigations in the histology and embryology of all the main