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SUBJECTS OF INSTRUCTION
SUBJECTS IN SCIENCE
BIOLOGY
PROFESSORS: THOMAS HUNT MORGAN, HENRY BORSOOK, A. J. HAAGEN-SMIT,
ALFRED H. STURTEVANT, FRITS W. WENT
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS: ERNEST G. ANDERSON, STERLING EMERSON, CORNELIS
A. G. WIERSMA
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS: JAMES BONNER, ROBERT EMERSON, ANTHON IE VAN
HARRE VELD, HUGH M. HUFFMAN, GEORGE E. MACGINITIE, ALBERT TYLER,
JOHANNES VAN OVERBEEK
UNDERGRADUATE SUBJECTS
Bi. 1. Elementary Biology. 9 units (3-3-3); second term.
An introductory subject intended to give the student of general science some
information about the fundamental properties of living thing ••
Instructors: Sturtevant, van Harreveld, Bonner.
Bi. 2. Genetics. 8 units (2-4-2); third term.
An introductory .ubject presenting the fundamental. of genetic. in connection
with .ome general biological problems, such as variation and evolution.
Instructor: Sturtevant.
Bi. 3. General Botany. 13 unit. (3-8-2); first term.
A general survey of the morphology and life histories of plants.
Instructor: van Overbeek.
Bi. 4. Invertebrate Zoology. 10 units (2-6-2); third term.
A survey of the main groups of invertebrates.
Instructor: MacGinitie.
Bi. 5 a, b. Plant Physiology. 12 units (3-6-3), second term; 8 units
(2-4-2), third term.
A general study of water relations, growth and the chemical processes taking
place in the living plant.
Instructor.: Went, van Overbeek, R. Emerson.
Bi. 6. Embryology. 14 units (2-8-4); second term.
A .ubject in descriptive and experimental embryology, covering both vertebrates
and invertebrates.
Instructor: Tyler.
Bi. 7 a, b. Biochemistry. 10 unit. (2-4-4); second and third terms.
A lecture course on the chemical constitution of living matter; and the chemical
changes in animal physiology, with laboratory work illustrating principles and
method. in current u.e.
Instructors: Borsook and Huffman.
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