the lower plants, and to the relation of fungi and bacteria to fermentation, putrefaction, and disease. The laboratory work consisted largely of the microscopic examination of some of the principal representatives of the vegetable kingdom. (Coulter's Plants.) Course I, page 116. 2. Phanerogamic Botany. A general course on the higher plants. It treated of the morphology and development of the flowering plants, embracing the main topics of their structure, functions, and habits, together with their classification, distribution, adaptations, and uses. Course 6, page 118. The structure, life-history, and activities of a series of typical animals were studied in the laboratory. The aim was to learn something of the evolution of animal forms, of the ways in which animals react to stimuli, breathe, feed, grow, and transmit their peculiarities to their offspring. Particular attention was paid to the study of living animals. Directions were given for obtaining animals for class work, for rearing and preparing them for study. Course 2, page 116. ECOLOGY-DR. GEROULD This course consisted of lectures and field work upon the relations of animals and plants to their natural surroundings. It considered the principles and causes of adaptation to various environments and modes of life, and the activities of animals in their natural habitats. The food of animals and plants and their methods of securing it, parasitic, commensal, and social life among animals, hibernation and other seasonal changes, migrations, protective resemblance, mimicry and warning coloration, egg-laying habits, nurture of the young, transformations of animals, etc., were studied in the laboratory and out-ofdoors. This course is supplementary to the course in Zoology, though it may be taken separately. It is intended primarily for teachers of Biology and Nature Study. Equivalent to a course of three semester hours. GEOLOGY -DR. C. H. RICHARDSON 1. Dynamical and Structural Geology. This course embraced a general survey of the whole field of geology, save the organic. Some of the principal topics discussed were as follows: Nebular and meteoric hypotheses, the origin and distribution of soils, chemical elements most abundant in rocks, chemical and physical characteristics, formation and distribution of glaciers, the theories of volcanoes, classification of igneous and sedimentary rocks, mountain building and continental deformation. (Le Conte's Elements of Geology.) Course 2, page 122. 2. Economic Geology. The design of this course is to illustrate the modes of occurrence in nature of minerals and ores which have economic importance, to show the commercial advantages of the localities in which they are found, the processes used in their extraction and treatment, their application to arts and industries, and the causes of loss and failure in mining and quarrying. Ores and products of the precious metals, ores and products of the useful metals, glass, sands, and the ores of the alkaline earths and alkalis will be considered. EVENING LECTURES During the session a series of lectures was given on Wednesday evenings. LIST OF SPEAKERS AND SUBJECTS, 1905 Rev. Henry A. Stimson, D.D., "Wordsworth, the Poet for the Twentieth Century." State Supt. H. C. Morrison, "Two Aims in School Work." Professor F. L. Pattee, "Longfellow and German Romance." Professor S. B. Fay, "The Establishment of Italian Unity." Dr. J. H. Gerould, “Color in the Animal Kingdom." Illustrated. The libraries, reading, and reference rooms, museum, and gymnasium are open to students of the Summer School. The single tuition fee for the session, whether one or more courses be taken, is $20, and the laboratory fees are those charged by the departments for the corresponding courses in College. The next session will open July 9, and close Aug. 17, 1906. A circular containing an extended description of the courses will be issued at an early date. For further information, address Professor T. W. D. Worthen, Director, 11 Webster Avenue, Hanover, N. H. |