isua-isnscatalog-1890-1891-056

Description:	INDIANA STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.55continue through the fall and winter terms, and Botany through the winter and spring terms.To meet the demands of the students in these four subjects necessitates the organization of twelve or thirteen classes in this department each year. During the past year the number of students enrolled in the different classes was two hundred and ninety-three, which is greater than that for any previous year.The objects of the work done in this department are two, viz. : (1) to give that training and culture which come from careful study of the biological sciences (2) to fit the student, as well as may be, to teach these sciences in the public schools of the State. An effort is made to present these subjects in such a way as will lead the student into correct methods of thinking, thus giving him the spirit of investigation—the sci¬ entific spirit—and enable him to estimate the value of author¬ ity, and to distinguish fact from fancy, in the affairs of life.To accomplish these purposes, constant use is made of the collection of specimens and the apparatus to which we have access. Among the pieces of apparatus now belonging to the school and used in this department, may be named the follow¬ ing: Thirty compound microscopes (12 Becks Star, 12 Leitz and 6 Bausch and Lomb New Biological), a dozen dissecting microscopes, twenty-five sets of dissecting instruments, a fttll- sized French Manikin of the best make, several of Auzauxs Anatomical Models, a good Stereopticon for projection, and a small series of skeletons for studies in comparative anatomy.The fire which destroyed the building in 1888, also destroyed all the specimens possessed by the school, together with the largo collection of birds, shells, fishes, etc., belonging to Mr. Ever- mann. During the two years since then much has been done toward replacing these collections. Among the collections now in the Normal School Museum may be named the following: One of Wards college collections of minerals purchased by the Board of Trustees small collections of birds, mammals, reptiles and batrachians, made by the students of the school an herb¬ arium of several hundred specimens collected in Indiana, the Southern Alleghanies, and in Colorado and Utah and a large
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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