Calendar: 1859-1860 Page 147

medical department 147 XI Comparative Anatomy and Physiology First Division of the Course -On the forms habits and gene- ral organization of the different classes composing the animal creation -This part of the Course is equivalent to the Course of Lectures on Natural History required by the Army Medical Board Second Division of the Course -Comparative Physiology This division qualifies for examination at the University of London The subject is illustrated by an extensive series of diagrams and by the preparations and specimens contained in the Museums of Anatomy Comparative Anatomy Zoology and Geology belonging to the College XII Practical Chemistry These Demonstrations commence with the Summer Session and terminate towards the end of June The instruction given is comprised in thirty lessons of two hours each and is so arranged that each Student performs the operations which are in most frequent use in the Laboratory for the purposes of analysis or research including the pro- cesses for detecting the chief mineral and vegetable poisons To facilitate the course of study the Pupils are divided into groups Each Student pursues distinct plan of operations Every Student is required to keep note-book of his opera- tions to be open to the inspection of the Professor and De- monstrator and in which the calculations and results are recorded with the probable reasons of failure if the experi- ments are unsuccessful During this Course brief explanation is given of the prin- Κ