Sophomore year trigonometry is begun and completed. Text, Wentworth's Plane and Spherical Trigonometry. Analytical geometry is begun and completed as far as the discussion of the general equation of the second degree, in the first term of the Junior year. Text, Church's Analytical Geometry. Descriptive geometry, in its application to shades, shadows and perspective, is begun and completed in the second term of the Junior year. Text, Church's Descriptive Geometry. Differential and integral Calculus is begun and completed in the third term of the Junior year. Text, Taylor's Calculus. The above is the full course in the School of Mines.

Students in the School of Liberal Arts take the same course as far as the analytical geometery, spherical trigonometry being optional. Normal students take as a course in algebra, Well's Higher Algebra, completing the work in the second year. They also take the full course in plane geometry.

BIOLOGY-ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.

The University is now prepared to offer good inducements to students who desire to pursue these subjects, or who find them indicated in the course of study which they may elect. It has a well equipped laboratory, which is devoted exclusively to these subjects, where first-class scientific work may be done. The laboratory is supplied with dissecting tables, trays, sink, artificial respiration apparatus, digestion chamber, recording cylinder, time markers, moist chamber, electrodes, sounds, sphygmograph, compound microscopes, dissecting microscopes, microtomes, turntables, mounting material, chemicals, balances, etc.

It offers rare advantages to the student who is desirous of preparing for the study of medicine, human and veterinary. A limited number of students desiring to do special work in these subjects-anatomy and physiology-will be accommodated. The various regular courses in these subjects are as follows:

THIRD YEAR NORMAL COURSE.-The work in this course consists of lectures, recitations and laboratory work. Students do practical work in experimental physiology and microscopy, special attention being given to the chemistry of the fluids of the body, including their composition and physiological action.

Besides the work in general hygiene, the students of this class are given instruction in the special hygienic precautions to be observed in the school room, and are taught how to give prompt aid to the injured and afflicted.

This course is given in the first term, and in each week six hours are devoted to laboratory work and one to recitation. The text book used is Martin's Human Body, Briefer Course.

JUNIOR YEAR--SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE.

This course consists of lectures, laboratory work and written recitations. The laboratory work pertains to gross anatomy, physiology and histology. In gross anatomy it includes the dissection of the domestic cat, or rabbit, as may be selected for the year, especial attention being given to the organs of digestion, circulation, respiration, excretion and reproduction. In physiology, practical work in determination of the composition and properties of the various food stuffs and body liquids, experimentation in the process of digestion and excretion, the study of

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the composition and changes in the blood and lymph, the investigation of the properties of muscles and nerves, and the study of the phenomena of respiration and circulation. In histology the microscopic examination of the fundamental tissues and the structure of the various organs of the body, together with the preparation of material for such examination, including the process of hardening, section cutting and mounting of subjects.

This course extends throughout the year, and in each week (provisionally) eight hours are devoted to laboratory work and one hour to recitation. Text books of reference are Foster & Langley's Practical Physiology, Parker's Zootomy, Mivart's The Cat, Gibbes' Practical Histology, and Martin's Human Body.

SENIOR YEAR--SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS.

Students may elect either a lecture course with text book and recitations or laboratory work. The laboratory work is made like that of the course in agriculture, and to give students of the School of Liberal Arts an equal advantage with those of the School of Agriculture, the first term's work in that course is made optional to them. The text book used is Martin's Human Body--advanced course.

PSYCHOLOGY.

THIRD YEAR NORMAL COURSE.--Work in the course includes lectures, recitations and laboratory work. The anatomy and physiology of the nervous system is reviewed briefly, and illustrated by dissections and experiments. Throughout the course the attention of the student is directed to the sequential development and the growth of the various faculties of the child's mind, the educational application of the subject always being considered.

This course extends through the second and third terms, and in each week three hours are devoted to laboratory work and three hours to lectures and recitations. The chief text book used is Ladd's Outlines of Physiological Psychology.

ZOOLOGY.

FIRST YEAR NORMAL COURSE AND FRESHMAN YEAR SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE. In this course the student is required to gain such a knowledge of systematic zoology as may be found in Packard's Zoology (Briefer Course). In addition to this he is given a course of practical work in the laboratory, where he examines and dissects typical forms of animal life after the methods of Huxley and Martin, Packard and Colton. Preferably, material for study and dissection will consist of animals indigenous to Nevada.

This course extends throughout the second and third terms, six hours in each week being devoted to laboratory work and one hour to recitation.

ANATOMY OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS.

SENIOR YEAR IN SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE.--The work in this subject is exact and technical, and is almost wholly confined to laboratory work. The student is required to make dissections of such domestic animals as the ox, the horse, the sheep and the hog. The course will include the study of such points as refer to veterinary surgery and practice.

FIRST YEAR NORMAL COURSE.-Work in this subject consists principally of text-book work and recitations. Experiments and observations, elucidating the text are frequently made. Lectures on the climatic conditions and natural resources of Nevada are given from time to time within the Appleton's text-book on Physical Geography is the one used.

course.

GEOLOGY.

SOPHOMORE YEAR SCHOOLS OF AGRICULTURE AND MINES, AND SENIOR YEAR SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS.-Work in this subject consists of lectures, recitations, laboratory and field excursion. Especial attention is paid to structural geology and petrography. The composition and distribution of the country rock of Nevada, together with the study of its relationship to mineral veins and soils are taken and considered at length. The text book used is LeConte's Elements of Geology. This amount of the work is taken by the students of all three schools in common, but students of the School of Mines and Agriculture continue in the subject during the second term, paying especial attention to determinative work in the field and museum, and devoting eight hours per week to this work.

SECOND YEAR NORMAL COURSE.--This course consists of lectures and recitations, especial study being devoted to structural and dynamical geology. Five recitations per week are held throughout the first term. The text book used is LeConte's Compend of Geology.

CHEMISTRY.

Theoretical and descriptive chemistry is taught in all the University courses. Shepard's Elements of Chemistry and Remsen's Organic Chemistry are the text books used, supplemented by lectures and fully illustrated by experiments.

In the schools of Liberal Arts and Agriculture four hours a week are devoted to this study throughout the Sophomore year, and in the School of Mines in the first and second terms of the Freshman year. The first and second terms are devoted to the study of chemical physics, nonmetals and metallic elements and applied chemistry. The third term is devoted to the study of organic chemistry, which is not required of the students in the School of Mines. To enable students of the School of Liberal Arts, or students who have no laboratory work prescribed in their course, to acquaint themselves somewhat with chemical manipulations, an elective laboratory course of three hours a week is open to them, affording the opportunity of performing the experiments prescribed in the text book, and such other experiments as may be directed. In the Normal School Shepard's Elements of Inorganic Chemistry is the text-book used, and is taught in the same manner as in the University courses, four hours a week being devoted to its instruction during the first term of the third year.

QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS.

The course of qualitative analysis occupies two terms of twelve hours a week of actual practice. Fresenius' Manual of Qualitative Analysis is used as a guide. The course includes the detection of inorganic and organic acids as well as bases in complex substances. Stress is laid upon the writing of equations and the explanations of the operations and reac

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tions involved in actual analytical work. In the shorter course of qualitative analysis given the Agricultural students, Craft's Qualitative Analysis is used.

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS.

This course includes all the improved gravimetric and volumetric methods of determination. At first analyses are confined to simple substances of known composition until accuracy is attained, when analysis of substances are taken up in special lines to suit the requirements of the student. The mining students are drilled in methods of analyses of ores, slags, alloy, etc. The agricultural students are taught the analysis of soils, fertilizers, manures, feeding materials, potable waters, milk, butter and kindred substances and the estimation of their value. Text books used are Fresenius' Quantitative Analysis and Cairn's Qualitative Analysis, supplemented by lectures.

PHYSICS.

JUNIOR YEAR SCHOOL OF MINES AND AGRICULTURE.-Instruction in this subject is given by means of text book and lectures with experimental demonstrations four times a week throughout the year, taking up the following subjects: Elementary mechanics, general properties of bodies, hydrodynamics, pneumatics, heat magnetism, electricity, acoustics and optics. Daniell's text book, the Principles of Physics, is used. A physical laboratory is being fitted up, the Board of Regents having made a liberal appropriation for that purpose. Problems will be given to the students to be worked experimentally in the laboratory.

JUNIOR YEAR LIBERAL ARTS AND THIRD YEAR NORMAL COURSE.-Instruction is given four times a week during the second and third terms by means of text book and lectures. It is not so technical as the course given to the Mining and Agricultural students and it is highly illustrated. Gage's Elements of Physics is the text book used.

BOTANY.

Instruction in botany is given in the University Schools of Liberal Arts and Agriculture and in the Normal School. In the School of Liberal Arts four recitation periods each week during the first term of the Junior year are devoted to text work and practical study of growing plants. The Agricultural students spend four periods weekly during the first term of the Freshman year in observational study of vegetable forms. In the sec

ond term of the Sophomore year, in the School of Agriculture, five periods each week are given to laboratory and text study of typical plant structures. In the third term of this year five periods weekly are devoted to systematic and field botany, during which the students make a careful study of the flora in the vicinity of Reno.

In the second term of the Junior year the Agricultural students devote ten periods weekly to physiological and anatomical botany. The work embraces the use of the compound microscope and a study of the functions of living plants.

The course in botany in the Normal School occupies five periods each week during the second and third terms of the second year. The work is the same as that in the Sophomore year in the School of Agriculture, and the students of the two schools work together.

The instruction in botany is given by means of text books and lectures, combined with laboratory and field work, where the student is brought in actual contact with the various forms of nature. The student's acquisition of a knowledge of methods as well as of facts is constantly borne in mind in giving the instruction. Each student is required to be provided with a pocket lens of a form approved by the professor in charge. Other apparatus is provided by the institution. A small herbarium, to be retained by the student, is required of each student completing the work in the Normal School and the Sophomore year of the School of Agriculture.

ENTOMOLOGY.

In the study of Economic Entomology, five hours per week during the third term of the Junior year in the School of Agriculture are devoted to the study of injurious and beneficial insects. This includes the study of the life histories, habits and remedies for the extermination of those most injurious. The instruction in this department is given in the form of laboratory work and text work, or lectures.

The formation of a representative collection, which the student has the privilege of keeping, is required of each student.

GENERAL.

When a study is marked " elective" the student is to choose one of the two so marked and continue in this branch throughout the course. When studies are marked "optional" the student may take them or not, as he desires, but after making a deliberate choice of an optional study, the student must continue it throughout the course.

SCHOOL OF MINES.

It is the aim of this course to furnish a good preliminary training to students who desire to become mining engineers. The four years' course leads to the degree of Bachelor of Science. Upon completing the regular four years' course the student will be competent in assaying and surveying and well grounded in mining and metallurgy. To obtain the degree of Mining Engineer, the student from the School of Mines will be required to furnish evidence of having done not less than two years' work in actual mining or metallurgical operations, after which experience one year of satisfactory work in the University will be required.