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154 department of science opportunity afforded tliem of acquiring practical knowledge of Plants The text-book used in this Class is Bentley "Manual of Botany 12 -Comparative Anatomy and Zoology The Course consists of Sixty Lectures delivered during the Winter Session and has for its prime object presentation of an exact knowledge of the elements of the science based on precise acquaintance with the characters of selected types The Lectures are so arranged as to comply with the neces- sities of the Students who are working for the examinations of the University of London and of those who devoting themselves especially to Anthropotomy desire to make them- selves acquainted with the morphology of the Vertebrata In accordance with this object the after-Christmas portion of the Course will consist of general review of the characters of the Invertebrata and special study of the Vertebrata For the Practical Class in Comparative Anatomy see Practical Biology 241 The Museum is open to all Students of the class and the Professor will give advice as to the necessary modes of studying the specimens which have bearing on the subject 13 -Physical Geography Thursday from to The object of this course is to explain the various pheno- mena of the earth's surface as consequences of the modes of action of the forces-heat gravitation &c and to show how the distribution of plants animals and of the human race is determined by climate changed outlines of land and water &c and how far the development of civilization depends on physical phenomena In the First Term those elements of the earth's physical geography will be treated of which result from its rock