in special research to all students, of whatever department or college, who may desire such opportunities.

No charges are made for instruction, and only such charges for apparatus and chemicals as will cover actual cost to the institution. The charges for ordinary chemicals will not exceed ten dollars per term. All glassware and other apparatus will be charged to the student at cost. The glassware that is uninjured will be received back at cost; other articles will be received back under special regulations, generally at a discount of twenty per cent. The cost of apparatus will vary from two to five dollars per term, according to the care exercised by the student.

Advanced students in analytical Chemistry are free to select their subjects for analysis or research under the advice of the Professor in charge.

V. GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY.

PROFESSOR WINCHELL.

The Third Class in the Collegiate Department spends the Winter Term on General and Dynamical Geology, recitations occurring five times per week. Dana's Manual is used, the subject matter being enlarged by blackboard diagrams and familiar lectures. Full notes and abstracts of all lectures, and explanatory matter presented during the term, are required of the class. The fullness and correctness of these notes, and the transcribed diagrams, exhibit the industry and interest of the students, thus furnishing a basis for the stated examinations.

The Junior Classes spend the Winter Term on Mineralogy and Lithology, meeting five times per week. The aim of this term's work is to make the student familiar with the crystalline forms and outward characters of the common minerals, and by a course in blowpipe analysis, to determine, quantitatively, their composition. After the most important minerals are thus made familiar to the student he is ready to begin the examination and careful study of rocks. The same class continues the study of Historical Geology during the following term. This also requires daily recitations. The chief aim here is to bring out the succession of principal events in the geological history of the earth, in a series of recitations and lectures, with special reference to the continent of North America and the State of Minnesota.

The student of the science of Geology in the University, is furnished throughout with such aid as can come from a good supply of maps, diagrams, models, and other means of illustration. Use is made of Marcy's Sciopticon with a

suit of geological and mineralogical slides. This means of illustration is specially valuable in the departments of Dynamical and Lithological Geology. The collections of the Geological and Natural History Survey of the State, stored by law in the University Museum, and constantly increasing, are in daily use in the class room. A series of casts of fossils, purchased of Professor Henry A. Ward, of Rochester, N. Y., are available for use in the study of historical Geology. The text-books used are those of Dana, with Elderhorst's and Brush's in blowpipe Mineralogy.

VI. BOTANY.

PROFESSOR WINCHELL."

The Third Class in the Collegiate Department begins Botany in the Spring Term. The elements of structural and systematic Botany are acquired by the use of a text-book and hand specimens. Each member of the class is required to analyze correctly, and name, independently, forty or fifty species, keeping full records of the characters and peculiarities of each species. At the final examination each student submits his record and note-book, and must be prepared to name and characterize each species, and name its family relations.

In the College of Agriculture provision is made for a special course in Botany, with reference to the wants of students expecting to pursue farming. VII. ZOOLOGY.

PROFESSOR WINCHELL.

The course in Zoology is introduced in the Fourth Class in the Collegiate Department. During the Spring Term a daily recitation is held in elementary, human, and comparative Physiology.

Students in the Elementary Course in Agriculture are required, when in the Second Class, to pursue the study of Zoology during the Winter Term. In the Collegiate Department, students of the Second Class who elect Zoology, will recite with those in the course in Agriculture. The course will consist of a review of the Elements of Zoology with the use of the microscope and sciopticon, and illustrations from the Museum.

Students in the Collegiate Department who elect Zoology in the First Class, will be put to work, in the Spring Term, in some department of Zoology, as Ornithology, or Entomology, or Conchology, making collections and studying species. Such specimens collected will be placed in the University Museum to the credit of the collectors, when regarded worthy of exhibition. The textbooks in Zoology will vary.

VIII. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.

PROFESSOR WINCHELL.

During the Fall Term the Fourth Class in the Collegiate Department pursue Physical Geography. This is intended to introduce the student to the natural sciences, and, by a general and broad survey, show him what lies before.

IX. ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.

PROFESSOR MARSTON.

Collegiate Department.

FOURTH CLASS.-The study and practice of Elementary Elocution and Composition. Under the latter subject are included punctuation, capital letters, proper form of papers of various kinds—as letters, examination papers, essays, etc., and the grammatical structure of sentences.

In the second term students pursuing the Modern Course take Trench's Study of Words.

Declamations privately rehearsed
Practice in making outlines of easy

THIRD CLASS.-Elocution continued, and afterwards delivered before the class. description and narrative themes, and in expanding outlines into short essays. Those electing English the first term study the English of some standard modern author in connection with a hand-book of the English Language.

SECOND CLASS.-Practice in Elocution and Composition, continued. Declamations rehearsed in private and afterwards delivered before the class. Those electing English study Anglo-Saxon and the history of the English Language, and read some standard modern author.

FIRST CLASS.—Declamations, previously rehearsed and criticised in private, given before the class and made the subject of further criticism.

In connection with Logic and Rhetoric instruction is given in making outlines of argumentative themes, and in the higher qualities of style.

Advanced (or University) Work.

JUNIORS (of all Departments).-History, and general view of English Literature; the critical study of the English of Chaucer and Shakespeare. Students in the Modern Course, and those in the other courses who elect English, the second and third terms, read critically selections of early English ; also later standard authors, as Milton, Bacon, Addison, Wordsworth, Tennyson.

Essays and original orations (nine in all during the year) are required of each member of the class. Each essay or oration is carefully criticised, then rewritten, then, if approved, rehearsed, and finally presented before the students and faculty.

SENIORS (of all departments).--Elements of Criticism. with practice in criticism of authors. Essays and orations before the University- -seven exercises in the year, including Commencement part.

X. GERMAN LANGuage and literature.

PROFESSOR MOORE.

The course may be completed in three years or nine terms. The object of the instructors will be to teach the student the principles of grammar and the use of idioms, and to give him so much practice in pronunciation that, at the end of the course, he may be able to read, write and converse with some degree of facility.

FIRST YEAR.-Campbell's German Course is used in the Fall Term of the first year, followed in the Winter and Spring terms by Anderson's "Ausgewählte Mæhrchen" and Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea in connection with German History and Geography.

SECOND YEAR.-The Fall and Winter terms are devoted to Schiller's "Jungfrau von Orleans" and Goethe's "Iphigenie auf Tauris" or some similar dramatic work; the Spring term to prose selections.

THIRD YEAR.—The reading consists of Lessing's "Nathan der Weise" followed, in later terms, by the first part of Goethe's "Faust" and German Literature.

Whitney's German Grammar is used as a text-book in connection with the reading and composition exercises throughout the second and third years.

XI. FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURF.

PROFESSOR HUGGINS.

Collegiate Department.

French is required of all students of the Modern Course in the First or Sophomore Class, and is optional for the students of the Classical and Scientific Courses. Fasquelle's Grammar and Otto's Reader are the text-books now used with this class.

College of Science, Literature and the Arts.

French is an option for all the students of the Junior Class, and for those of the Senior Class during the first term. Selections from the best modern authors are read, and the usual collateral work is required.

XII. LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.

PROFESSOR WALKER.

The requirements for entering the Freshman, or Second Collegiate Class, are:

Latin Grammar and Reader, and with them, Part I. of Latin Prose Composition; four Books of Cæsar, five Orations of Cicero, and six Books of Virgil, with Part II. of Prose Composition.

In connection with the Reader, all declensions and rules for gender, the regular conjugations and a thorough analysis of the verb, and the most important rules of Syntax are required.

In reading the other authors, the student is expected to translate the Latin idioms into proper forms of expressing the thought in English without changing the general structure of the sentence.

The syntax of cases and modes is to be thoroughly studied and applied to all constructions; the principles and words familiarized by oral retranslations and Latin composition. The student should practice pronouncing the Latin, after translating it, till the thought is taken in at sight, as from English words

More importance is attached to thoroughness than to the amount of text passed over.

The studies of the course are:

Collegiate Department.

Second, or Freshman Class,- Livy,--Prose Composition completed, and Roman History begun.

First, or Sophomore Class,-Horace,-Odes, Satires and Epistles; Roman History and Antiquities.

College of Science, Literature and the Arts.

Junior Year-Germania and Agricola of Tacitus, and Satires of Juvenal. Lectures on Roman Literature.

Senior Year-Comedies of Plautus and Terence. Lectures on Roman Law.