JOHNS HOPKINS NIVERSITY CIRCULARS

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VOL. IX.—No. 82.] BALTIMORE, JUNE, 1890. [PRIcE, 10 CENTS.

PROGRAMMES FOR 1890-91.

The following courses in literature and science are offered for the academic year which begins October 1, 1890. They are open to properly qualified young men according to conditions varying somewhat in each department. The Annual Register, giving full statements as to the regulations and work of the University, will be sent on application.

B. L. GILDERSLEEVE, Professor of Greek, (c) General Chemistry. (a) will direct the Greek Seminary (Aristophanes and the Old (d) Chemistry of Carbon Compounds. Attic Comedy). Twice weekly. H. A. ROWLAND, Professor of Physics, (b) will conduct a course of Practical Exercises in Greek. (a) will direct the work of the Physical Laboratory. Twice weekly from October to January. (b) will lecture on Electricity and Magnetism. Four times (c) will give a series of readings in Aisehylos, Sophokles, and weekly. Euripides. Weekly, after January 1. (d) will lecture on Greek Syntax and Greek Style. Weekly, W. H. WELCH, Professor of Pathology, after January 1. (a) will direct the work of the Pathological Laboratory. (b) will lecture on selected subjects in Bacteriology. E. H. GRIFFIN, Professor of the History of Philosophy, (a) will give advanced courses in Modern Philosophy and J. S. BILLINGS, Lecturer on Municipal Hygiene, in English Ethics. will lecture in the Johns Hopkins Hospital. (b) will conduct the undergraduate courses in Psychology and H. B. ADAMS, Associate Professor of History, Ethics. (a) will conduct theSeminary of History and Politics. Weekly. PAUL HAUPT, Professor of Semitic Languages, (b) Early History of Institutions and Greek Politics (first half- (a) will conduct courses in Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Biblical year), History of Prussia (second half-year). Twice weekly. Aramean and Ethiopic. (c) Elements of International Law. (b) will conduct courses in Assyrian, Babylonian, Sumero- (d) will direct the undergraduate courses in History, with Akkadian and Comparative Grammar. assistance. M. BLOOM FIELD, Associate Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative H. M. HURD, Professor of Psychiatry, Philology, will lecture to physicians, in the Johns Hopkins Hospital. (a) Indo-Iranian Languages. Six hours weekly. H. N. MARTIN, Professor of Biology, (b) Linguistic Scienceand Comparative Grammar. Twiceweckly. (a) will direct the Laboratory Work in Biology. W. K. BROOKS, Associate Professor of Morphology, (b) will lecture on General Biology, Vertebrate Histology, (a) will direct the Laboratory Work in Morphology. and Animal Physiology. (b) will lecture on the Elements of Zodlogy. Twice weeklyfrom (c) will lecture to advanced students on selected topics in November. Physiology. (c) will lecture on Osteolo,y. Twice weekly till April. SIMON NEWCOMB, Professor of Miathematics and Astronomy, W. T. COUNCILMAN, Associate Professor of Anatomy, (a) will have general direction of the courses in Mathematics will assist in the work of the Pathological Laboratory. and Astronomy. (6) will conduct courses in Mathematical Astronomy, and in T. CRAIG, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Instrumental and Practical Astronomy. Through the year. (a) Theory of Functions and Linear Differential Equations. Twice weekly. WILLIAM OSLER, Professor of Medicine, (6) Applications of the Theory of Functions. Weekly. will lecture to physicians, in the Johns Hopkins Hospital. (c) Abelian Functions, and Theoretical Dynamics. Each twice IRA REMSEN, Professor of Chemistry, weekly. (a) will direct the Laboratory Work in Chemistry. (d) Differential Equations; Integral Calculus. (6) xviii lecture on Advanced Organic Chemistry. Twice L. DUNCAN, Associate Professor of Electricity, weekly. will conduct the cour~es ii~ Electrical ~ngineering. 88 JOHNS HOPKINS [No. 82.

A. M. ELLIOTT, Associate Professor of Romance Languages, (c) Middle English (through the year), Anglo-Saxon (through will give advanced courses in the Romance Languages, inclu d- the year), Rhetoric (first half-year), Nineteenth Century ing Modern French Phonetics, Old French Philology, Old Literature (second half-year). Twice weekly. Norman Dialects, Italian Philology, Vulgar Latin, Seminary W. HAND BROWNE, Associate in English. Work, etc. will conduct courses in English and Early Scottish Literature. R. T. ELY, Associate Professor of Political Economy, (a) Economic Conferences. Weekly. W. B. CLARK, Associate in Palacontology, (b) Finance and Taxation. Twice weekly. (a) ~xill direct the Laboratory Work in Palacontology. (c) Elements of Political Economy. Daily. (6) will lecture on Palacontology, and Stratigraphical and Historical Geology. G. H. EMMOTT, Associate Professor of Logic and Lecturer on (c) will lecture on Physical Geography. Roman Law, (a) Historical and Comparative Jurisprudence. Twice weekly. E. M. HARTWELL, Associate in Physical Training, (b) Undergraduate classes in English Constitution and in Logic. will direct courses in Physical Training. F. FRANKLIN, Associate Professor of Miatheinatics, W. F. C. HASSON, Associate in Applied Mechanics, (a) Modern Algebra, Higher Plane Curves, Finite Differences will give instruction in Mechanics and Engineering. and Probability. Daily, first half-year. M. D. LEARNED, Associate in German, (b) Modern Synthetic Geometry, Theory of Surfaces, Advanced Algebra. (a) Middle High German, Old Saxon, etc. (c) Differential and Integral Calculus. (b) Undergraduate courses in German. W. S. HALSTED, Associate Professor of Surgery, EDWARD RENOUF, Associate in Chemistry, will lecture to physicians, in the Johns Hopkins Hospital. (a) will assist in the Laboratory Work in Chemistry. H. A. KELLY, Associate Professor of Gyncecology, (b) will conduct theReviews in Chemistry for undergraduates. will lecture to physicians, in the Johns Hopkins Hospital. H. A. TODD, Associate in the Romance Langaages, A. L. KIMBALL, Associate Professor of Physics, (a) Special courses in Italian, Spanish, Old French, and Pro- (a) will direct thecourse for undergraduates in General Ph vsics. ven9al. (b) will give courses of lectures to the major course students. (6) Undergraduate courses in French. Daily. F. M. WARREN, Associate in Modern Languages, (c) will conduct a Physical Seminary for advanced students. (a) will give special lectures on Romance Literature. Weekly. (b) Undergraduate courses in French and German. H. N. MORSE, Associate Professor of Chemistry, A. C. ABBOTT, Assistant in Racteriology, (a) will assist in directing the Laboratory Work in Chemistry. will assist in the work of the Pathological Laboratory. (6) will lecture on Inorganic Chemistry. CYRUS ADLER, Instractor in Semitic Languages. E. H. SPlEKER, Associate Professor of Latin and Greek, will conduct courses in Assyrian, Biblical Archceology, Hebrew, (a) Isokrates, Homer, Euripides. Four times weekly. etc., and will lecture on the History of Israel, etc. (b) Thukydides, Aesehylus, Sophokles. Three timesweekly.. W. S. ALDRICH, instructor in Drawing, (c) Greek Literature and Composition, etc. Instruction in Drawing. MINTON WARREN, Associate Professor of Latin, J. S. AMES, Assistant in Physics, (a) will conduct the Latin Seminary (Latin Historians). Twice weekly. will assist in the Laboratory Work in Physics. (b) will lecture on the Roman Historians. Weekly,first half-year. B. W. BARTON, Instructor in Rotany, (c) will lecture on Historical Latiu Grammar. Weekly, second will give instruction in Plant Analysis and the Elements of half-year. Systematic Botany. (d) Terence and Plautus (first half-year), Tacitus (second half- C. H. CHAPMAN, instructor in iVifithematics, year). Four times weekly. Undergraduate courses in Mathematics. G. H. WILLIAMS, Associate Professor of Inorganic Geology, G. P. DREYER, Senior Demonstrator of Physiology, (a) will direct the Laboratory Work in Mineralogy and Petrog- will assist in the Laboratory Work in P1] vsiology. raphy. G. W. EDMOND, Assistant in Chemistry, (b) will lecture on General Mineralogy. Three times weekly. (c) will lecture on Microscopical Petrography, Dynamical will assist in the Laboratory Work in Chemistry. Geology, etc. C. L. SMITH, Instructor in history, HENRY WOOD, Associate Professor of German, (a) Lectures on Social Science. (a) will direct the Teutonic Seminary. (6) Undergraduate courses in History. (b) will give advanced courses in Gothic, Middle High German, K. W SMITH, Instructor in Latin, German Literature, etc. (a) Roman Elegiac Poets (first hai~fyear). (c) will direct, with assistance, the undergraduate courses in (6) Undergraduate courses in Latin. German. J. M. VINCENT, Instructor in History. E. A. ANDREWS, Associate in Biology, (a) will lecture on Sources of history, etc. (a) will lecture on General Biology, the Embryology of the (6) Undergraduate courses in History. Chick and the Mammal. (b) will assist in the Laboratory Work in Biology. J. W. BRIGHT, Associate in English, EDMUND C. STEDMAN, Percy Turnbull Lecturer on Poetry, (a) English Seminary. Four times weekly. will give the first course of lectures on the Turnbull foundation, (b) English Metres, Middle English Grammar, Principles of in the Spring of 1891. Phonetics (first half-year), History of English Inflections WOODROW WILSON, Reader in Political Science, (second half-year), Old-English Texts, etc. (through the year). will give twenty-five lectures on Administration. JUNE, 1890.] UNIVERSITY 011WULA RS. 89

MATHEMATICS. ASTRONOMY.

Graduate Courses. The instruction in Astronomy is given by Professor SIMON NEWCOMB, and by an assistant working under his direction. The Professor NEWCOMB’S courses are announced under Astronomy. courses include a study of the various branches of the science, (See below.) illustrated and enforced by practical exercises, and by original Dr. CRAIG offers the following courses: work when the time at the disposal of the student will permit it. 1. Theory of Functions and Linear Differential Equations. The work taken by a student depends very largely on whether he Twice weekl , throagh the year. is pursuing Astronomy as a principal or as a subsidiary subject. 2. Applications of the Theory of Functions. As a general rule those who pursue it with the latter object take Weekly, through the year. up but a single branch: spherical and practical astronomy when 3. Abelian Functions. their work lies in the direction of physical or other research requir- Twice weekly, throagh the year. ing the use of instruments; celestial mechanics when it lies in the 4. Theoretical Dynamics, with an introduction to the Theory of direction of mathematics; historical and descriptive astronomy Perturbations. when only the teaching of general astronomy is in view. Twice weekly, through the year. For training students in the use of instruments the University Dr. CRAIG and Dr. CHAPMAN: has provided an equatorial telescope of 9~ inchcs aperture, with a Integral Calculus, ineluding Differential Equations. filar micrometer, a meridian circle of 3 inches aperture, with circles Three times weekly,first half-yea?’. 2 feet in diameter reading to seconds, a small transit instrument This course is designed particularly for those students of Physics whose permanently mounted in a fixed position, a reflecting circle by previous training in the Integral Calculus has not been sufficient to enable Pistor & Martins, an astronomical theodolite, and several other them to take advantageously the advanced courses in Physics. small instruments. Dr. FRANKLIN offers the following courses: The courses of instruction during the year 1890—91 will depend 1. A course covering consecutively the elements of the folloxving upon the wants of the students attending them. It is expected, subjects: Modern Algebra; Higher Plane Curves; Finite Dif- however, that they will cover the two principal branches of the ferences and Probability. science. Five times weekly, fl?’st half-yea?’. 1. Mathematical Astronomy generally. 2. Modern Synthetic Geometry. The instruction in this branch is principally given by Professor NEW- Three times weekly, fist-half yea?’. COMB, and is expected to include celestial mechanics, the computation of 3. Theory of Surfaces. perturbations, and theoretical astronomy generally. Among the special Th?’ee ti??ses weekly, second half-yea?’. subjects are the computation and correction of orbits, the methods of In tl?is course, after an elementary treatment of the curvature of surfaces computing special perturbations, computation of ephemerides, the numerical and twisted curves, the theory of surfaces will be taken up on the lines of development of functions in trigonometric series, the various methods of Darboux’s work on this subject. integrating and treating the equations of planetary motion, and the method of least squares. 4. Advanced Algebra. Twice weekly, second half-yen?’. 2. Instrumental and Practical Astronomy. The instruction in tl?e practical use of tl?e instruments will be given by This course will deal chiefly with the theory of substitutions and its the Assistant in astronomy under the direction of the Professor, wlmo is application to algebraic equations. expected to supplement this instruction by expositions of the subject and Undergraduat~ Courses. examinations of the students from time to time. FiRST YEAR: Analytic Geometry. PHYSICS. Daily, till aboat Dece?nber 10. Dr. CHAPMAN. Essentials of an Elementary Course in the Theory of Equations. tliacludirig ElectrIcal ElagizaeerlrLg). Dailyfor two weeks. Dr. CHAPMAN. Differential and Integral Calculus. The courses in Physics are designed (1) for those students pre- Daily, January 1 to end ofyeai’. Dr. FRANKLIN. pared for advanced work who wish to make Physics a specialty, SECOND YEAR: (2) for graduate and special students who wish to extend their knowledge of Physics, and for all who take it as a part of their Differential and Integral Calculus. (Special Topics.) regular undergraduate course, (3) for those who wish to make Twice weekly, till Dece??sber 1. Dr. FRANKLIN. Electricity a specialty. Differential Equations. Graduates and others who wish to pursue the advanced courses Twice weekly, Decembe?’ 1 to end of yea?’. Dr. CRAIG. and who have not already taken the equivalent of the collegiate Determinants and Elementary Theory of Equations. courses, will take as much of them as may appear desirable. Th?’ee times weekly, till December 1. Dr. CHAPMAN. Modern Analytic Geometry of two dimensions. Advanced Courses. Th?’ee times weekly,from Decen?ber 1 to Feb?’aa?’y 1. Dr. CIrAPMAN. Analytic Geometry of three dimensions. Lecltn’es. Three times weekly, Febranry 1 to end of year. Dr. CHAPMAN. Professor ROWLAND: Electricity and Magnetism. Fou?’ times weekly, throuqh the yea?’. 90 JOHNS HOPKINS [No. 82.

These lectures constitute one-half of a completecourse, extending through Second Year (Major) Course. two years. The other half consists of lectures on Thermodynamics, Heat Conduction, and Physical Optics. The lectures develop fully the mathe- This course is designed to meet the wants of both graduates matical treatment of the subjects, and to follow them the student should and undergraduates who have already taken either the first year’s have sufficient mathematical knowledge to read such authors as Maxwell, course or its equivalent, and who wish to pursue further their Thomson, Stokes, Green, Fourier, etc. physical studies. A working knowledge of Analytic Geometry Dr. CRAIG: and Calculus is required for admission to this course. The year’s T~eoretica1 Dynamics. work consists of: Twice weekly, through the year. 1. Lectures and reeitations on the following subjects: Dr. KITaBALL: Dynamics, beginning with the study of the particle and extending to Physical Seminary. some of the simpler problems irs the motion of a rigid body. Weekly, through the year. Elementary Thermodynamics, hased on Maxwell’s Theory of float. Electricity and Magnetism. Laboratory Work. Sound. Wave Theory of Light, as treated in Glazebrook’s Physical Optics. Advanced students are expected to give as much of their time Daily, through the yeas-. Dr. KIMBALL. as possible to laboratory work. The work consists at first in 2. Laboratory Work. carrying out experiments which familiarize them with the use Four hous-s weekly, through the year. of instruments for exact measurement and with experimental The laboratory wont includes problems that present more experimental dtfficulttes methods. When sufficient experience of this kind has been than those undertaken durin.~ the first year, or that invotee more mattiemasticat itnowi- acquired, the student undertakes, under the guidance of the ed~e for their complete discussion, wrttten reports being required as in the first year’s course. Daring the year special problemus are asst~ned to the students which they are instructors, some research designed to be of permanent value. expected to work out in a conspiete nassner, takiu~ necessarily macre time than is required for the ordinary problems of the cotirse. Journal ]Ifeeting. Electrical Engineering. All advanced students are expected to meet with the instructors once a week for the reading and discussion of the current physical Provision is made for the practical and theoretical instruction journals. To each student is assigned one of these upon which to of graduate, special, and undergraduate students in Applied Elec- report during the year, giving a synopsis of the most important tricity, Applied Mechanics, Machine Design, and Mechanical articles. Engineering. The instructors are Associate Professor Louis The following journals are regularly reported upon in this way: The DUNCAN, Mr. W. F. C. HAssON, Assistant Engineer, U. S. Navy, London, Edinhurgh, and iDuhlin Philosophical Magazine, The American and Mr. W. S. ALDRICh, M. E. Journal of Science, Wiedemauns Annalen and Beibliitter, Journal de Students who follow this course are expected to have had a Physique, Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Exuer’s Repertorium, Nature, Engineering, Comptes Rendus, London Electrician, Electrical World, Jour- good general education, to be able to read French and German, nal of Franklin Institute, Cambridge Philosophical Transactions, also the to be acquainted with mathematics through the differential and proceedings and transactionsof various societies. integral calculus, and to have taken the two years’ undergraduate course described above, or its equivalent, with a somewhat exten- Collegiate Courses. ded course in Mechanical Drawing. The work extends through These courses are adapted to undergraduates and to those two years. graduate students who wish to extend their knowledge of Physics First Year. but are not prepared for more advanced work. First Term. Applied Electricity. Two years’ work is required of those undergraduates who take Lectures and examples on so much of tlse physical and mathematical Physics as ‘one of their elective studies, while only one year is neces- tlseory of electricity as is considered useful for applicamioss. sary for those who take it as a subsidiary subject for the degree of Principles of Mechanics. Bachelor of Arts. Lectures (tn(l secitatioss. Laboratory work accompanies the lectures and recitations Mechanical Drawing. throughout the course, the design of this work being to illustrate Shop Work. the subject as it is studied, to impress its principles, and to give Laboratory Work in Electricity. clear ideas, rather than to be merely an exercise in manipulation. Second Terra. Applied Electricity. (Continued). But some knowledge of methods is also attained, so that in the Applied Mechanics. second year problems requiring more experimental skill aregiven. Strengths of materials. Kinematics and dynamics of machines, etc. MechanicA Dra~ving. First Year (Minor) Course. Shop Work. This course does not assume that the student has had any Laboratory Work in Electricity. previous acquaintance with Physics, but a knowledge of Plane Trigonometry and the use of logarithms is required. Second Year. 1. Elementary Mechanics, Heat, Electricity and Magnetism, First Tenn. Applied Electricity. (Oonlinued). Sound, and Light. Theory and design of dynamos and motors. Transmission of energy. Lectures and recitations daily, through the year. Dr. KIMBALL. Principles of Mechanism and Prime Motors. 2. Laboratory work, consisting of simple experimental problems Mechanical Drawing. supplementing the class-room work. Laboratory Work in Electricity. Three hours weekly, through the year. Shop Work and Experimental Work in Mechanics. 91 JUNE, 1890.] UNIVERSITY CII?CULA uS.

Second Term. Applied Electricity. (Continued). Journal llfeetings. Electric light systems, etc. Alternating cnrrent apparatus. Telegraph, The instructors and advanced students will meet twice weekly telephone, etc. Machine Design. for the purpose of hearing reports on the principal articles con- Mechanical Drawing. tained in the journals of Chemistry. The reports are furnished in turn by all who attendthe meetings. The Laboratory Work in Electricity. journals read and regularly reported on are: Annalen der Chemie; Berichte Experimental Work in Mechanics. der deutschen chemisehen Gesellschaft; Journal of the Chemical Society The shop xvork will include instruction in pattern-making, (London); Journal fur praktische Chemie; Zeitschrift fur analytische molding, founding, forging, and machine work. Chemie; Zeitscbrift fiir physikalisehe Chemie; American Chemical Jour- nal; Journal of the Society for Chemical Industry; Bulletin de la Soci&6 The work in the electrical laboratory will include instruction chimique; Comptes Eendus; Annales de Chimie et de Physique; and in methods of measurement, the testing of apparatus, and original occasionally others. research. The laboratory is open from 9 a. m. to 5 p. in., and students are expected to spend all of their available time, not Introductory and Collegiate Courses. occupied in lectures and recitations, iii experimental work. First Year (il 1linor) Course.

(a) Introduction to General Chemistry. Lectures and examinations five times weekty, through the year by Professor CHEMISTRY. IREM5EN and Dr. RENOUF. (b) Laboratory Work Five to six hours weekty, through the year under the direction of Professor REMSEN Dr. RENOUF and Mr. EDMOND. The courses in Chemistry are intended to meet the wants (1) of 1ourse. graduate students who make Chemistry their specialty, or who Second Year (llfajor) 6 select it as one of their subordinate subjects for the degree of (a) Supplementary Course in Inorganic Chemistry. Doctor of Philosophy; (2) of undergraduate students who study Twice weehty through the year by Dr. MORsE. Chemistry for general training ; (3) of special students, who, for (b) Chemistry of the Compounds of Carbon. good reasons have neither received a bachelor’s degree nor Twice weekty through the yeor by Professor REMSEN. matriculated at this University. The first and second years’ (c) Reviews in the Chemistry of the Compounds of Carbon. courses cover the ground of General Chemistry, as far as it is Once weehly thron.gh the year by Dr. Moxsx. possible to do so in the time occupied. Together they form the (d) Laboratory Work. full course designed for undergraduates. Graduates and special Five to six hours u’eekty, through the year under the direction of Professor students who have not done an equivalent amount of work will REM5EN, Dr. MORsE, Dr. RENOUF and Mr. EDMOND. follow such parts of these courses as may seem desirable. The Chemical Laboratory, which has just been enlarged, is ~vell equipped and will conveniently accommodate about two GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. hundred students. Advanced Work. The work offered in Geology and Mineralogy is planned to meet the wants of those graduate students (1) who desire to make Laboratory. these their principal subjects for the degree of Doctor of Philos- ophy; (2) who wish these subjects as a supplement to the course Under the direction of Professor RE1’~IsuN and Dr. MousE. in chemistry; or (3) who seek a knowledge of palaeontology and Daily, except Saturday, from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. stratigraphical geology in addition to work in biology. The work will consist in a thorough study of analytical methods, making difficult and typical preparations especially of compounds of carbon, and in The Laboratory for Mineralogy and Petrography will be open carrying on investigations on assigned topics. daily from 9. a. m. to 5 p. in. under the supervision of Dr. WILLIAMS. The work will include crystallography (measuring, Lectures. calculation, and crystal drawing), physical and general determina- (a) On Advanced Organic Chemistry, by Professor REMSEN. tive mineralogy, and the microscopical study of the crystalline Twice weekly, through the year. rocks. The Laboratory for Palaeontology will be open during half the (b) Reviews in Organic Chemistry for advan~d students, by year under the direction of Dr. CLARK. The work will include Professor REMSEN. Weekly, through the year. a comparative study of type fossils both with reference to their (c) Reviews in Inorganic Chemistry for advanced students, by stratigraphical importance and to their classification. Dr. RENOUF. Twice weekly, through the year. (d) On special topics, under the direction of the Professor of In addition to the regular laboratory work required in both Chemistry, by the Fellows and other advanced workers—About petrography and palaeontology, students will have ample oppor- twenty lectures, second half-year. tunity to do field work, for which the State of Maryland presents This work, while serving to familiarize students with chemical literature unusual advantages. is intended to aid them in acquiring the art of presenting subjects in the The rocks of the region west of Baltimore offer many interesting prob- form of lectures before audiences. All those who intend to become teachers hems relative to both eruptive rocks and the crystalline schists; while the of Chemistry are expected to take active part in the work. 92 JOHNS HOPKINS [No. 82. mountains still farther west contain nearly the whole sequence of palaeo- tigation, and are thus trained to plan and carry out researches zoic strata, and the Chesapeake section exposes the richly fossiliferous themselves. In connection with this work, students also learn cretaceous and tertiary beds. Frequent excursions for the examination of bow to seek and utilize the bibliography of a subject. Those these formations will be regarded as an integral part of the required work. Points of interest in the immediate vicinity of Baltimore will be visited whose aims lie ia a physiological direction are required to begin on short Saturday excursions, while two trips of several days’ duration will by a careful study of the construction, and mode of using, of the be arranged for examining the formations of the Appalachians and the chief physiological instruments. Chesapeake. 1. Animal Physiology. Professor MARTIN and Dr. DREYER. Courses of lectures will be given as follows: The biological laboratory has been especially constructed with reference to providing opportunity for advanced work in experimental physiology. (a) On General Mineralogy, by iDr. Williams. Three times The collection of physiological instruments belongin~ to the university is weekly throughout the year at 11 a. m. in the Fetrog’ru~phieal Labo- unusually large and complete and is yearly added to. The laboratory con- ratory. tains two large rooms for general advanced work in animal physiology, in This course will embrace crystallo~raphy, crystal drawing and projection, addition to others specially designed for work with the spectroscope, with physical (especially optical) and general descriptive mineralogy. the inyograph, for electro-physiological researches, and for chemical physi- It is intended to meet the wants of chemists and also to serve as an intro- ology. duction to more special ~vork in mineralogy and petrography. There is 2. Animal Histology. Professor MARfIN and Dr. DLIEYER. assumed on the part of the student an elementary knowledge of geometry, rrhe laboratory contains a special room coustructe(l for a(lvanced histo- optics, chemistry, and blow-pipe analysis. logical work, and well supplied with apparatus and reagents. There is This course is supplemented by examinations and practical work in crystal drawing and determinative mineralogy durin~ three hours of each week. also a room and apparatus for micro-photo~rapby. (b) On Microscopical Petrography, by Dr. Williams. Three 3. Animal Morphology. Dr. BRooKs. times weekly for the first half-year at 9 a. m. in the Petrographical Rooms for advanced work in this subject are provided in the laboratory and fitted up with conveniences for both gross and microscopic dissections, Laboratory. and for embryological studies. (e) On Dynamical Geology and the Crystalline Rocks, by 4. Lectures. Dr. Williams. Four times weekly for the second half-year at 9 a. m. in the Petrographical Laboratory. Professor MARTIN will lecture weekly to advanced students on selected topics in Physiology. Dr. BROOKS will conduct a class for advanced students (d) On Stratigraphical and Historical Geology, by Dr. Clark. in Animal Morphology. Other short courses of lectures will be given from Four times weekly for the first half-year in the Paicteontological time to time on selected physiological and morphological subjects. Laboratory. 5. A Journal Club This course will embrace a general discussion of the origin, structure and Composed of the instructors and advanced students will meet weekly for sequence of the sedimentary rocks with special reference to the value of the reading and discussion of recent biological publications. palaeontological data in the interpretation of stratigraphy. 6. Reading Clubs or Seminaries (e) On Palacontology, by Dr. Clark. Weekly, for thefirst half- In Animal Morphology and Physiology, for the study and discussion of year at 2p. m. in the Palaeontological Laboratory. classical biological works, meet weekly during the greater part of the season. (f) OnPhysical Geography, by Dr. Clark. Three times weekly 7. Library Facilities. until Christmas, in the Palaeontologieal Laboratory. The laboratory contains a library supplied with standard biological works This course will be required of undergraduates of the first year. It will and complete sets of the more important journals. There is also a special be illustrated by suitable maps, charts and models. collection of books which have been brought together in connection with researches carried on in the laboratory. The general library of the university receives all the chief journals of general science, and the transactions of the leadiug learned societies of the B 10 LOGY. world. The library of the Peabody Institute, within five minutes walk of the university, contains complete sets of many of the chief biological journals, Advanced Instruction. of the proceedings of learned societies, and other works of reference. In the libraries of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland The advanced courses are designed for graduates who have and the Johns Hopkins Hospital, a large number of medical periodicals is already such knowledge of Biology as may be obtained by follow- accessible to members of the university. ing the collegiate courses in that subject, and for others who, The proximity of Washington is of special value to advanced students of although not graduates, satisfy the university authorities that they physiology. Thelibrary of the Army Medical Museum in that city con- tains an almost unrivalled store of physiological and anatomical works, arecompetent to undertake higher work. In the university courses which are available under conditions favorable to study. but a small proportion of the teaching is given by formal lectures; the instructors come into close daily contact with the students, 8. Publications. supervise their work, direct their researches, and advise as to their In connection with the biological laboratory there is published a journal reading. (Studiesfrom the Biological Laboratory) which contains the results of most of the researches carried out in the laboratory; a ready means of publica- Students not far enough advanced to undertake research are tion for original work is thus secured. usually given some important original article, and shown how to repeat and verify for themselves (and criticise) the experiments 9. Opportunities for research in Pathology are afforded to prop- or observations described in it. By studying and repeating the erly qualified physiologists in the Pathological lustitute, directed original work of others they learn the niethods of biological inves- by Professor WELCH.

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Collegiate Instruction. phology; in the third, Botany. For the present a choice can be offered only between the first amid second of the three. This is designed especially for undergraduate students; but graduate students who have not had a thorough preliminary 1. Mammalian Anatomy. training will he requireti to follow the instruction in those sub- Five times weeklyfor one month, with five hours laboratory work each week. Dr. ANDREws. jects of the undergraduate course in which they may he deficient. Special students, who are not graduates or matriculates, may In connection with this course the student dissects one of the higher mammals. be received on giving satisfactory evidence that they are likely to be benefited by the course. 2. Vertebrate Histology. The regular undergraduate instruction in normal biology ex- Lecturesom’ recitations threetiaies weekly,from early inNovember until Ohristmnas, withfive hours laboratory work each week. Professor MARTIN. tends over two years, fbllowing at least one year’s training in In connection with this course the student studies practically the normal Physics and Chemistry; those who take Biology as a subsidiary structure of the various tissues and organs. He learns how to use staining, subject for the B. A. degree are not required to do more than the imbedching, and reagents, and is instructed in the technique of section cutting first year’s work. and mounting. 3. Animal Physiology. First Year (Minor) Course. Three lectures or recitations weekly from the beginning of January until the end ofthe session, with five hours laboratory work each week. Professor MARTIN. This has been planned to meet the needs (1) of those who In connection xvith this course is practical study of the chemical com- intend later to take up some one branch of Biology (the natural position of the mn6re important constituents of the body, thechemistry of history of living things) for special study; (2) of students, gradu- digestion and of the digestive liquids, the fundamental properties of living ate or undergraduate, who expect to study medicine, but mean- muscles and nerves, the beat of the heart, the phenomena of reflex action, while desire, as a valuable preparation, some general knowledge chemistry of the urine, etc. Important physiological facts, which require of the phenomena, laws and conditions of life; (3) of those who special skill for their exhibition or the employment of especially delicate desire, as a part of their general college training, some acquain- instruments, are demonstrated to the class. There will be, as a rule, one such demonstration weekly. tance with the methods of modern experimental and observational The physiolo~ical apparatus belonging to time University is unusually science, and select Biology as a study with that end in view. good and complete; students have, accordingly, the opportunity to acquire -The course consists of five lectures or recitations weekly a knowledge of the mode of using all the chief instruments employed in throughout the academic year with laboratory work. The fol- physiological, pathological, and pharmacological research. While fully reco lowing subjects are included in the year’s work. 0nizing the great importance of physiolo0y as a chief 1. General Biology. foundation of scientificmedicine, the aim held in view has been to teach, as Three lectures or recitations weekly from the commencement of the session until thoroughly as possible in the time, physiology as an independent branch the end of March. Professor MARTIN and Dr. ANDREWS. of science, and not as medical physiolo0y or “physiology for medical stu- Attention is directed to the broad characteristic phenomena of life and ents.” The technical applications of the science the student who intends to become a physician is expected to learn afterwards when he enters a living things rather than to the minuthe of descriptive botany or zo6logy, professional school of medicine. It is believed that the better his knowl- or to the characters of orders, genera, and species. In the laboratory the edge of physiology as a pure science, the better will he be able to apply his stndent learns how to observe, how to verify and describe what he observes, knowledge afterwards in the solving of practical problems. how to dissect, and how to use a microscope; he examines selected ve~eta- ble and animal types, from unicellular organisms such as the yeast-plant 4. Elements of Zodlogy. and Ammba, to the fern and the flowering plant on one side and to the cray- Two lectures or recitations weekly, from early in November until the end of the fish and a bird on the other. In the lecture room attention is mainly given academic year, svith five hours laboratory work each week. Dr. BRooKs. to the fundamental biological facts and laws which the particular plant or A systematic course of lectures on the structure, relationships, and classi- ammal under consideration is fitted to illustrate, the object being rather to fication of animals. In the laboratory the student will dissect a number of give the student an idea of what is meant by the terms living thing, plant, forms selected to supplement the types studied in the general biology course animal, tissi ze differentiation, life history, organ, function, natural classifi- of the former year. cation, evolution, development, etc., than to teach him the elements of Students who take the major course in Biology must attend all the lec- Botany and Comparative Anatomy as frequently understood. tures, but maychoose between the laboratory work in Physiology and Zohlogy. 2. The Embryology of the Chick and the Mammal. 15. Pathology. Three lectures or recitations weekly from the beginning ofApril until the close of Students, who pay the regular tuition fee and who do not take the labora- the session, withpractical study of the developmentof a bird. Dr. ANDREwS. tory work in both Physiology and Zodlogy, have the privilege, if Professor 3. Osteology, Human and Comparative. Welch think theni competent, of attending courses of instruction in Bacteri- Two lectures or recitatioas weekly until the end of March, with practical study ology, Pathological Histology and Pathology, without the payment of an of selected skeletons. Dr. BRooKs. additional laboratory fee. 4. Plant Analysis and the Elements of Systematic Botany. Naturalists’ Field Club. Lectures and practical ‘instruction twice weekly from the beginning of April until the close of the session. Dr. BARTON. This was organized by members of the University, hut includes in its list of members other residents of Baltimore interested in Second Year (Mccjor) Course. natural history. The club works in three sections—Geology and Mineralogy, Zodlogy, Botany. Each section elects its own officers This is designed for those who, having completed the above and arranges for its own field excursions and its own meetings. minor course, desire to continue biological studies. Ultimately There are also monthly meetings of the whole club, when the the second year’s work in biology will be, at the choice of the chairmen of the several sections report progress, and an address stu(lent, one of three courses: in the first of these Animal Plivsi- on some topic of nattiral history is given by one of the nienibers. ology will be the dominant study; in the second, Animal Mor- [No. 82. 94 JOHNS hOPKINS

GREEK. 5. Prose Composition. Weekly exercises in connection with each of the above courses. 6. Conferences on Greek Literature, with select readings from the Greek Seminary. elegiac, ianbic, and lyric poets. Weekly, through the year. Professor GJLDERSLEEVE will conduct the Greek Seminary, 7. Sight Reading. the plan of which is based on the continuous study of some lead- A voltmntary coarse, weekly, through the year. ing author or some special department of literature. The Seminary consists of the director, fellows, and scholars, and such advanced students as shall satisfy the director of their fitness for an active participation in the work by an essay, a critical LATIN. exercise, or some similar test of attainments and capacity. All graduate students, however, may have the privilege of attending Latin Seminary. the course. Dr. MINTON WARREN will conduct the Latin Seminary. The During the next academic year the study of Aristophanes and Latin Historians, more especi~lly Livy and Tacitus, will form the the Old Attic Comedy will constitute the chief occupation of the centre of work during the next academic year. There will be two members. There will be two meetings a week during the entire meetings a week throughout the year, devoted to the critical session, chiefly for the criticism and interpretation of the author, interpretation of the authors above named, to various auxiliary but auxiliary studies in the literary and political history of the studies, and to the presentatiomi of papers prepared by members period will also find place in the plan of the Seminary. of the Seminary. More particular attention will be paid to Livy In connection with the Seminary the director will give a course in the first half of the year, amid to Tacitus in the latter half. of twelve lectures on the metres of Aristophanes and another of like number on Aristophanes and his times. To the latter course Students are advised to read in advance as much as possible of Livy and all students of literature and history will be admitted. Tacitus, and to provide themselves with complete texts of Caesar, Sallust, Curtius, Tacitus (Haim, 4th edition, Teubuer; or Joanmies Muller, Freytag, Leipzig) Livy (Weissenborn and M. MUller, Teubner) and the Historicorum Advanced and Graduate Courses. Romanorum Fragmenta, (edited by Hermann Peter, Leipzig, 1883, Teubuer). 1. Professor Gildersleeve will also conduct a course of Practical Advanced and Graduate Courses. Exercises in Greek, consisting chiefly in translation at dictation from G~reek into English, and English into Greek, two meetings 1. During the first half-year Dr. Warren will give a course of lectures on the Roman Historians, beginning with the earliest a weekfrom the beginning of the session to the first of January. period, once a week. 2. He will give a series of Readings in Aischylos, Sophokles, and Euripides, with special reference to theories of tragic art, 2. During the second half-year he ~villgive a course of lectures once a week after January 1. on Historical Latin Grammar, with especial reference to phonetic laws and the genesis of forums, once a week. 3. He will lecture once a week, after January 1, on select chapters of Greek Syntax and Greek Style. 3. A Journal Club will meet once weekly throughout tIme ses- sion, to report ammd discuss recent philological publications in the The student should be provided with Bergk’s or Meineke’s complete text, vunVelsen’s critical edition so far as issued, and Kock’s editions of the field of Latin. Knights, Clouds (translated by Humphreys), Birds, and Frogs. 4. Dr. KIRBY W. Siuvu will give a course of lectures in the It is also desirable that the student should possess Kock’s Fragmenta first half-year on the Roman Elegiac Poets. Gomicorum Graecorum, or at any rate Meineke’s smaller edition of the frag- ments, and for the study of the period, Thukydides, Xenophon’s Memora- Undergraduate Courses. bilia and Hellenika, and Plutarch’s Lives of Perikies and Alkibiades. 1. Livy, two books. Four times weekly, first half-year. Dr. K. XV. SMvriI. Undergraduate Courses. Private Reading: Cicero, de Seneclute, de Anmicitia; Caesar, 1ivile,booki. Dr. SPIEKER will conduct the undergraduate courses in Greek Belium ~3 2. Horace, Select Odes, Satires, and Epistles. as follows: Four times weekly, second half year. Dr. K. XV. SvrsTrr. 1. Isokrates, ad Desnonicusn, Panegricus. Private Reading: Horace, Epodes; Ovid, Fasti, books i and ii. Four times wee/dy, first half-year. 3. Terence, Andria; Plautus, Ainphitruo. Private Reading: Plutarch, Tkemislokles; Plato, Eselkyphro. Three times weekly, first half-year. I)m’. M. WARREN. 2. Homer, Iliad, three books; Euripides, one play. Reading at Sight. Four times wee/dy, second half-year. One hoar u’eekly. Private iReading: Herodotos, one book. Private Reading: Terence, Hautontinmorurnenos; Plautus, Menaechsni. 3. Thukydides, one book. Three times weekly, first half-year. 4. Juvenal; Select Letters of Pliny. Private Ileadino’: Dc mosthenes, de Corona. Three times weekly, second half-year. Dr. K. XV. SMiTH. Reading at Sight. 4. Aisehylos, one play; Sophokies, one play. One hoer weekly. Three times weekly, second half-year. Private Reading: Select Letters of Cicero. Private Reading: Aristophanes, one play. JUNE, 1890.] UNIVEBSITY CLI?C ULAPS. 95

5. Prose Composition. 9. Comparative Grammar: Conferences on selected chapters of Weekly exercises in connection with each of the above courses. the comparative grammar of the Semitic languages. Thurs~iay, 6. Tacitus, Agricola, Germania, and portions of the Histories and 5p.m. Annals. Four times weekly, second half-year. Dr. LVI. WARREN. The following courses will be conducted by Dr. ADLER: 10. Hebrew for beginners (Gesenius-Mitchell’s Grammar and reading of the Pentateuch). Twice weekly, through the year. SANSKRIT AND COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY. 11. Hebrew Exercises: Reading at sight selected chapters of the historical books. Weekly, through the year. 12. Mishnic Hebrew: The tract Shabbath~ Weekly, through the The following courses will be given by Dr. BLOOMFIELD: year. A. Linguistic Science and Gomparative Grammar. 13. Assyrian for beginners (Delitzsch’s Grammar and Haupt’s 1. The Elements of Linguistic Science, together with an expo- Texts). Twice weekly, through the year. sition and criticism of modern methods in scientific grammar. 14. Assyrian: Second year’s course (Delitzsch’s Lesestiteke.) Twice Weekly, through the year. weekly, through the year. 2. A short sketch of the History of the Inflections of theVerbs 15. Biblical Archinology: Conferences on selected topics, under and Nouns in the classical languages. seminary organization. Weekly, through the year. Weekly, through the year. 16. Lectures on the History of Israel, with special reference to the IN. B.--—No knowledge of Sanskrit is required for either of the courses period of contact with the Mesopotamian Empires. Weekly, indicated above. Course 2 is intended as an introduction into the most through the year. elementary methods and results ofiiistorical and comparative grammar. Mr. Leon (Ibn Abi Suleiman) will conduct classes in Arabic conversation B. Indo-Ira2ian Languages. and in Oriental Calligraphy under the supervision of Professor Haupt. 3. Vedic Seminary: The Rig-Veda and the Atbarva-Veda, with Additional courses especially to meet the wants of beginners, special reference to native Hindu exegesis. and arrangements for individual instruction, will be provided if The subject will be treated under the following heads: necessary. a. Selected hymns of the Rig-Veda with Sayapa’s commentary, Pada- Undergraduate students selecting the first group (classical) of college pi4ha, Pr~ti courses (see Anvuat Register, p. 104), may substitute courses in Hebrew for 9iikhya, etc. certain of the studies provided in that group for the second and third years. b. Selected hymns of the Atharva-Veda, along with the ritualistic practice in the sfitras and pari~i~4as. Weekly, through the year. 4. Introduction to Pall, thelanguage of the Buddbistic writings. ROMANCE LANGUAGES. Weekly, through the year. 5. Readings in the Hitopade9a and Maim. Second year’s cour~e. Twice a week, first half-year. Advanced Courses in Romance Philology. 6. Introduction to the Elements of Vedic Study. Second year’s DR. ELLIOTT. course. 1. With first year graduate students. Twice a week, second half-year. (a). Lectures on Modern French Phonetics. iVeekly. 7. Elementary Course in Sauskrit: grammar; prose writing; (b.) Grammar of Old French. Weekly, fist half-year. interpretation of easy texts. { Introduction to Old French Philology. Weekly, secoad Twice a week, through the year. half-year. (c). Grdber’s Grundr&s (the part treating of French). 2. With second and third year students. SEMITIC LANGUAGES. (a). Seminary Work: Old Nomnian. Two hoto-s zveek1~j. (b). Phonetics (general). Weekly. (c). Introduction to Italian Philology. Boccaccio’s Decamneron. Weekly. Professor HAUPT will give the following courses: 1. Hebrew: Critical Interpretation of the book of Ecciesiastes, (d). Vulgar-Latin. Weekly. chapters v—xii. Monday, 3p. m. The work in Romance Philology for properly qualified students extends through three years. It is intended primarily for graduate students, and is 2. Biblical Aramean: Interpretation of the Chaldee portions of especially adapted to the training of teachers and specialists. Students who the book of Daniel. Monday, 4 p. in. enter for the later years of the course must show that they are acquainted 3. Syriac: Reading of the New Testament in the Peshita Version. with the subjects previously studied, and those who begin the course• must Monday, 5 p. m. give evidence of familiarity with Latin, Modern French, and German. 4. Arabic: Selected Sums of the Coran. Thursday, 3 p. m. 5. Etbiopic: Dillmanu’s Chrestomathy, pp.46 if. Thursday, 4p.m. Special Courses in Italian, Spanish, etc. 6. Assyrian: Cursory Reading of Rawlinson’s Cuneiform Inscrip- Dr. TODD. tions, Vol. iv, plates 55—68. Friday, 3 p. in. 1. Italian. 7. Babylonian: Pinches’ Texts in the Babylonian Wcdge WritThg. The ~vorkin Italian will begin with the .Ttaiiaa Priucipia, Parts I and II Friday, 4p. in. (Grammar and Readings), and continue with Goldoni’s lie Ourioso Acci— 8. Sumero-Akkadian: Haupt’s Cane~foren Texts, parts ii and Hi. deate, and Souzogno’s Letteratara Itatiana. TIme second half-year will be Friday, 5p.m. devoted to the study of Mauzoni’s I Pi-omessi Sposi and Dante’s Pargatorio. 96 JOHNS HOPKINS [No. 82.

2. Spanish. GERMAN. The class in Spanish will take up Knapp’s Grammar and Readings, con- tinuing with a critical stndy of Cervantes’ Don Qaijote and Calderon’s La Vida es suei~o. Advanced Courses. - The combined conrses in Italian and Spanish (five hours weekly) may be pursued as a major course by undergraduate students who have taken 1. Teutonic Seminary. Dr. WooD. the minor course in French. - First Section: 3. Old French. (a). Goethe’s Faust will be critically studied. The study of Old French will begin with Gaston Paris’ Ghanson de The edition used in class will be that of G. von Loeper, 2te. Bearbeitung, Rol:tnd et Vie de Saint Louis, and continue with Cl~dat’s Auteurs Frangais dse 1879, Zwei Theile. Twice weekly. ]Ifoyen Age, and Schwann’s Altfranziisische Cram?natik. (b). Middle High German. 4. Old Proven~al. An advanced course in Old Provengal will be given on the basis of Hartmann’s Iwein, ed. Benecke und Lachmann, 4 Aufi., 1877. Particular Bartsch’s Chrestomathie and Suchier’s study in Grdber’s Grundriss. attention will be paid to the syntax of Middle High German epic poetry. Twice weekly,first half-year. The Decline of the Minnesong, and the introduction of popular elements. Special Lectures on Literature. Die Lieder Neidharts von Reuenthal, ed. Friedr. Keinz, Leipzig, 1889. Twice weekly, second half-year. Dr. F. M. WARREN. Second Section: Bi-weeldy ‘meetings will be held. 1. Epic Poetry of France. Subjects connected with the work of the First Section of the Seminary The origin, development, and influence abroad of the national epic. will be selected for more special treatment, in a series of original papers Weekly, first half-year. and reports by the members. 2. The iRise and Progress of the Breton Epic. 2. Gothic. Dr. WooD. Arthur, Tristran, and the Holy Grail. Weekly, second half-year. Braune, Gotische Grainmatik, 3 Aufi., 1887. UI/ilas, ad. Ileyne, 8 Aufi., 3. The Early History of the Novel. 1885. Lectures on the Elements of Comparative German Grammar. The Greek novel. The French roman d’aventure and prose romance. Twice weekly. The Italian pastorals. The Spanish pastoral and picaresco novel and the There will be a weekly review of the work in Gothic and Comparative romance of chivalry. Weekly, through the year. German Grammar, in a class conducted by the Fellow in German. 3. History of German Literature in the Nineteenth Century, Undergraduate Courses in French. beginning with the Romantic School. Dr. WOOD. (a) Lectures. Weekly. I. First Year (Zlilibwr) Coarse. (b) Readings. Weekly. C~lass A. Dr. F. M. WARREN. 4. Middle High German. Elementary Course. Dr. LEARNED. Paul’s Grammatik, 3 Aufi., 1889; Weinhold’s Lesebuch, 3 Anfi., Wien, 1875~ 1. Literary. Hartmann’s Armer Ileinrich, ad. Wackernagel und Toischer, 1885. JVeekly. Balzac, Eagiaie Grandet; Sand, La Mare au Diable; Angier, Le Geadre de AL. Poirier; Hu~o, Heraaai; Daudet, Gontes; Erckmann-Chatrian, 5. Old Saxon. Dr. LEARNED. L’Ami Fritz. Three times weekly. Ileliand, ed. Heyne, 3 Aufi., 1883. Twice weekly, second half-year. Private Reading. 6. History of the German Language in the Old High German 2. Historical. Period. Dr. LEARNED. Michelet, Ricils difistoire de France. Weekly. Twice weekly, second half-year. 3. Prose Composition and Exercises in IdIoms. Whitney’s Grammar Part II (connected passages). Weekly. Undergraduate Courses. C~lass B. Dr. TODD and Dr. F. M. WARREN. Major Coarse. For undergraduates who have matriculated in Greek, and for 1. Classics. graduates beginning French. Five hours weekly. Goethe, Ilermann und Dorothea, Faust; Schiller, Wallenstein’s Lager. Twice The first few weeks will be devoted to a rapid introduction to the grain- weekly. Dr. WOOD and Dr. LEARNED. mar, after which the time will be chiefly given up to extensive reading of 2. Prose Readings. standard authors. Freytag, Aus dem Mittelalter. lVeekly. Dr. LEARNED. 1ourse. 3. History of German Literature. II. Second Year (AikJor) L Kiuge, Geschichte der deutschca Nationallitteratur. Lectures. Weekly. Dr. TODD and Dr. F. M. WARREN. Dr. WOOD. 1. Tbe Study of Victor Hugo. 4. Prose Composition. Twice weekly. Buchhieim, with Wilmann’s Deutsche Schulyrananatik, 2 Theil. Weekly. 2. The Study of Corneille. Dr. LEARNED. Weekly. 5. Private Readings. 3. Lectures on French Literature, especially from •the Renais- sance to the Revolution. Minor Course A. IVeekly. 1. Classics. 4. Prose Composition. Schihler, Wilhelm Tell; Gocthe, Egmont; Heine, Ifarzreise. Critical Study of Idioms. Weekly first half-year. Original Essays. Twire weekly. Dr. LEARNED. JVeekly, second half-yea’i’. 2. Piose Readings. B-iefwechsel zwischen Schiller und Goethe. Weekly. Dr. WooD. Freytag, Aus dem Zeitalter Friedrichs des Gi-ossen. Weekly. Dr. LEARNED. JUNE, 1890.1 UNIVERSITY CIJ?CULAPS. 97

3. Prose Composition. Fourteenth Century Literature. Whitney’s Grammar, Exercises, 2d Series. Dr. Woon and Dr. LEARNED. Twice weekly, second half-year. Dr. BROWNE. 4. Private iL{eadings. Eighteenth Century Literature. Minor Course B. Weekly, throstgh the year. Dr. BROWNE. Class-work. Otis’ Elementary German; Bnchheim’s Modern German Rectder, Part II; Schiller, Wilhelm Tell; Goethe, Egmont; Prose Composition: Whitney’s Courses required of all Undergraduales. Grammar, Exercises, 1st Series. Daily. Dr. F. M. WARREN. Synoptical view of English Literature. Twice weekly, through the year. Dr. BROwNE. iSupplernenlary C’ourses. Historical and Scientific German. Three times weekly. Dr. LEARNED. HISTORY AND POLITICS. ENGLISH. Graduate and Advanced Courses.

Advanced Courses. Dr. HERBERT B. ADAMS will conduct the following courses of instruction: DR. JAMES NV. BRIGHT will conduct the following courses: 1. In the Seminary, English poetry, especially the lyrics, from 1. The Seminary. the twelfth to the sixteenth century will be the theme during Two hours weekly, through the year. the first half-year (four hours pefiweek.) In the second half-year The Seminary of History and Politics is a co-operative society the work will centre in the English Drama from its beginnings composed of the instructors, fellows, scholars, and graduate stu- to Shakespeare (four hours per week.) dents in this department, for the encouragement and promotion 2. English Metres: Lectures. of original investigation in American institutional, educational, First half-year. economic, and socialhistory. Subjects are assigned by the Director 3. A study of prose texts of the Old-English (Anglo-Saxon) to individuals for private research and public report in the Semi- period, chiefly the writings of Alfred. nary. These reports of progress are discussed, criticised, and Weekly, through the year. referred to committees for further report. The results finally attained are embodied either in doctors’ theses or in other papers, 4. Middle English Grammar: Lectures. Twice weekly,first half-year. which are published in the Historical Studies or elsewhere. 5. The History of English Inflections: Lectures. In addition to these formal papers, brief reports on new hooks, mono- Weekly, second half-year. graphs, and magazine articles are required gf seminary members. These exercises afford valuable traininb in the art of criticism. The notes are 6. The Principles of Phonetics: Lectures. sometimes published in critical journals. Co-operative reports on the Weekly, first half-year. progress of American historical literature are prepared by members of the 7. Journal Meetings. seminary for foreign periodicals. Bi-weekly, through the year. 2. Early History of Institutions and Greek Politics. Tseo hours weekly, first half-year. Mr. EDMUND C. STEDMAN, in the second half-year, will give the This course will deal with the ori~in of domestic and social institntions, first course of the Percy Turnbull Memorial Lectures on Poetry. the development of religion, law, and government in tribal and village society. The lectures on Greek Politics will trace the growth of the village community into the city and of the city into municipal federations. The Undergraduate Courses. leadin~ institutions of Greek political society will be reviewed, and some attention will be given to the Greek colonial system and to historic parallels Dr. WM. HAND BuoxvNE and Dr. BRIGHT will conduct the between ancient and modern civic life. following courses: 3. History of Prussia. Major Course. Two hours weekly, second half-year. Middle English. This course of lectures will relate to the origin and development of the Twice weekly, through Ihe year. Dr. BRIGHT. Prussian military state and to its historic relations to other members of the old German Empire and to the reconstruction of Germany. Particular Rhetoric. attention will be devoted to the economic, administrative, and educational Tsvice weekly,first half-year. Dr. BRIGHT. reforms instituted by the Baron vom Stein. In connection with thiscourse, English Writers of the Nineteenth Century. the class is recommended to read Droysen’s Preussische Politik, Carlyle’s Twice weekly, second half-year. Dr. BRIGHT. Frederick the Great, Seeley’s Llfe and Times of Stein, and Tuttle’s History of Early Scottish Poets. Prussia. Weekly, through the year. Dr. BROWNE. 4. Mr. EMMOTT will lecture on Historical and Comparative Juris- Minor Course. prudence. Anglo-Saxon. Two hours soeekly, through the year. Twice weekly, through the year. Dr. BRIGHT. The origin and nature of the primitive Roman State and of the early institutions of the Roman people having been folly treated of in the course Elizabethan Literature. on the “History and Principles of the Roman Law,” given in 1888-1889 Twice weekly, first half-year. Dr. BROWNE. (which will be repeated in 189 1—1892), the course next year will open with JOHNS HOPKINS [No. 82. 98 an examination of the condition of the Roman Law at the beginning of the 9. Dr. C. L. Sixuvil, General Secretary of the Charity Organiza- fifth century, and ~vill show how its practical utility was promoted by the tion Society of Baltimore, will continue to lecture upon Social Lex de Responsis Prudenturn and by the Codes of Gregorianus, Hermo~eni- Science and to conduct student-visits to charitable institutions. anus, and Theodosius II. The following topics will then be discussed from 10. Short courses of lectures by graduates of the University and the comparative standpoint: The public law schools of Constantinople and of Rome, the Fragmeata Vaticorna, the Mosaicarum et Romancu’um legum occasional special lectures may be expected. (Jollatio. The codification of the law by Justinian. (The Roman law, a universal system.) German law. Description of early German law; the Undergraduate Courses. German family; the reforms of Charles the Great. The conquest of the western Roman empire by the Germans; the “Barbarian” Codes; the 1. Greek and Roman History. Visigoth Breviarium of Alaric II; the “Papian,” or the Roman law of Three hours weekly, from January until June, with DR. J. M. VINcENT. the Burgundians; the edict of the Ostrogoth Theodoric; the Lex Salica; 2. Outlines of European History (substitute for Course 1).. the capitularies. The principle of the personality of the law. The sub- Three hours weekly, from January until June, with Dr. C. L. SMITH. sequent development of the Roman law in the Byzantine empire. Revival 3. History, Minor course: Herodotus and Thucydides, in transla- of the study and teaching of the texts of Justinian in Italy; the school of tion. Bologna and the blossators. The canon law. The Roman law in modern states previous to the French revolution. Codification in the eighteenth Weekly through the year, with Dx. J. M. VINcENT. and nineteenth centuries on principles of the Roman law. Statement 4. History, Minor course: Livy and Tacitus, in the original. of the most important principles of modern Roman law. Codification. Four times weekly, with classical instructors. Dr. iR. T. ELY will give the following instruction: 5. History, Major course: Church History; Mediaeval and Mod- ern Europe. 5. Finance and Taxation. Daily through the year, with Da. ADAMS and Dx. C. L. SMITH. Two hours weekly, through the year. 6. Political Science, Minor course: Introduction to Political This course will deal especially with the subject of taxation considered from economic and legal points of view. The history of taxation will be Economy. traced and the various kinds of taxes will be described. The subject of Daily through the yea)’, with DR. ELY. taxation in American states and cities will be treated with special attention, 7. Political Science, Major course: International Law and and the tariff legislation of the United States will be reviewed. Diplomatic History; English and American Constitutional 6. Economic Conferences. History. One evening each week. Daily, with Dr. ADAMS and Mr. EMMOTT. The work for the coming year will consist, during three evenings out of four, ofa critical examination and discussion of the writings ofAdam Smith, and his English and Scotch predecessors in Political Economy. Every fourth evening will be a journal evening, devoted to discussion of recent PHILOSOPHY. economic periodical literature. 7. Dr. WooDROw WILSON will give twenty-five lectures upon Administration. The Undergraduate Courses in Philosophy provide five hours The course oflectures in this branch in 1891 xviii begin a new three-year per week of required work for one year. series of lectures covering substantially the same field as the lectures of the (a) Deductive and Inductive Logic, by Associate Professor last three years, but much less exclusively descriptive and much more EMMOTT. largely devoted to the discussion of special topics in Administration. It is intended to make the lectures given in 1891 cover, in the first place, a In this class special attention xviii be given to the oeneral theories of both discussion of the general questions of Public Law with which Administra- Deduction and Induction; to the various forms of thought: notion, judg- tion connects itself, and in the second place, an examination of the ques- ment, and reasoning; and also to the various methods of scientific investi- tion of the establishment and training of a professional civil service. This gation and proof; as well as to the application of time rules of the syllogism plan will involve, as its first part, a tolerably wide survey of the history and and the detection of fallacies. general principles of Public Law, and, as its second part, a consideration of The topics treated of will include the following: the history of foreign experience in the establishment of a trained, tech- (1). Province and definition of logic. nical, public service, the feasibility and desirability of the introduction and (2). TIme forms of tlmought: notion, judgment, reasoning. enforcement of a similar training in our own administrative organization, (a) Terms and their various kinds. (b) Time various kinds of propositions or judgments; opposition and the means necessary to its introduction, and the results to be expected. conversion. 8. Dr. J. M.VINcENT, Librarian ofthe Department of History and (c) Mediate inference or syllo 0ism. Politics, will lecture on the Sources of History and the science of (d) Aristotle’s classification of logical mind material fmdlacies. historical investigation. (3). Methods of scientific investigation and proof. He will first outline the domain of historical and political science and (4). Fallacies incident to induction. show its relations to the various auxiliary departments of knowledge. The The xvork in this class xviii consist of short informal lectures, recitations, different classes of historical material will then be described and methods themes, epitomnes, etc. of finding, proving, criticising, and using the same in the study and literary Text Books: Jevons’ Elementary Lessons in Logic, Fowler’s Elements of Imudmuctive construction of history will be (liscussed. This introduction will be followed Logic, witim selecmed passages from thc larger works of Joyous, and froma the works of by a systematic study of tIme sources of tIme huistory of leading modern states. Mill, Dam, Vemun, Keynes, and other recent writers. The chief historians will be characterized and descriptions given of import- (b) Psychology, by Professor GRIFFIN. ant bibliographical works, collections of chronicles, annals, memoirs, biog- TIme instruction in psycimology is intended to give a general view of the raphies, publications of societies, collections of treaties, state papers, laws, results of the nexv methods of study, the recent investigations in regard to public documents, and other materials which form the historical records of time quality and intensity of sensations, the durmmtion of psychic acts, etc.— each country. Practical exercises in the interpretation and criticism of doc- in general, the subjects treated mu Part Ii of Ladd’s Physiological Psychol- uments and writers will give opportunity to apply the theories brought o~y—being presented with sufficient detail to render them intelligible and forward and to cultivate the powerof historical judgment. interestimmg. UNIVEJISITY CIACULAPS. JUNE, 1890.] 99

Especial emphasis is laid upon the facts of conscious experience as known are enctmraged to devote as much time to their work as they find through introspection, the most important end to be secured being, it is available. Independent work on the part of the student issought. believed, such an understanding of the facts and laws of mental life as shall fit one for wise self-government and effective influence. With this view, The first course will begin in the early part of October, the second slIch powers and states of mind as attention, memory, association, habit, course in January. imagination, the feelings, the ~vill,are discussed in as concrete and practical Opportunity is afforded, in cominection with the course in pathological a way as possible. A text book is used as the basis of instruction, but this histology, to become familiar with clinical microscopy by the examination is largely supplemented by informal lectures, and by references to various of the urine, sputumn, blood, and variomos patloological fluids. authorities. Two essays on assigned subjects are required from each mem- Thie course of denoonstrations of fresh patholo ber of the class. 0ical specimens andinstruc- tion in the methods of making post-mortem examinations, are open to those Text Books: Baldwin’s Handbook of Psychology, Sully’s Outlines of Psychology, Dewey’s Psychology, Hamilton’s Lectures on Metaphysics, Porter’s Human Intellect, who take the course in pathological histology. Spencer’s Principles of Psychology, Ladd’s Physiological Psychology. The resources of tloc laboratory are open to those who are fitted [A series of lectures and demonstrations on the anatomy and physiology to engnge in special investigations in any department of pathology. of the muscular and moervous systems is given, as a voluntary course, in the A part of tho laboratory is set apart for xvork in Experimental Biological Laboratory.] Pathology. Here Ludwig’s kymograph, alId other apparatus (c) Ethics, by Professor GHtFFJN. required for such experimental work, are available for those pre- The fundamental problems of ethics and the application of moral princi- pared to undertake studies in this important department of ples to the guidance (If conduct and the formation of a manly character, are pathology. considered with special reference to the Christian theory of morals. The In addition to the regtilar practical courses in the laboratory great historic systenis—hedonism, titilitarianism, intuitionism—and the continuing throughout the acndenoic year, special courses of relation to ethical theory of the doctrine of evoltition, are discussed with leettlres on pathological subjects will be given during tloc months the purpose of enabling the student to reach a just and intelligent view of of January, February and March, 1891, in the clinical amphithe- the grounds and nature of moral obligation. But., wbile keeping to a scientific basis, the aim throughout is to make the instruction of a directly atre of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Professor WELCH at this practical nature, and to show the bearing of the problems considered upon time will lecture once a week upon selected subjects in Bacteriol- questions of practical ethics. ogy, especial attention being given to the relation of bacteria to The subject is taught by lectures, recitations from a text book—Fowler’s the infection of wounds. Principles of Morals, Part Ii,’ bein~ used at present—and references to the Professor COUNCILMAN will lecture upon the Pathology of works of the most important writers. One essay is required from each Bright’s Disease. He will consider the etiology and pathological member of the class. histology of Bright’s disease with especial regard to the classifi- Text Books: Calderwood’s handbook of Moral Philosophy, Jamiet’s Elensents of Morals and Theory of Morals, Martinean’s Types of Ethical Theory, Sidgwick’sMethods of Ethics, cation of the different forms of nephritis. Stephen’s Scienceof Ethics, Marteusen’s Christian Ethics, Sidbwick’s History of Ethics. An outline of the History of Philosophy is given by Professor The instruction in Bacteriology is under the charge of Professor Griffin as a voluntary course. W. H. WELCH and of Dr. A. C. ABBOTT. Time rooms for bacteriological work are in the Pathological Laboratory. They are supplied with all the apparatus required by modern bacterio- The Advanced Work in Philosophy is not yet fully provided logical methods, such as those employed in the Hygienic Institute in Berlin. for, but for next year the following courses are offered; Tloe laboratory has a full set of cioltures of pathogenic micro-or~anisms, and of others useful for study and teachiun. 1. Modern Philosophy from Descartes to Kant. Wcekly, hsoscgh the peer. Professor GRIFFiN. Opportunities for studying bacteriology are available for stu- 2. English Ethics from Hobbes to Stephen. dents during the entire academic year, the laboratory being open Fortocightly, two horus. Piofessor GRIFFIN. on week days from nine o’clock in the morning until six in tile eveniiog. A.s Ilhileli time can be giveii to tloc work as the student has at his disposal. In the bacteriological course the student becomes familiar with PATHOLOGY AND BACTERIOLOGY. the prellaration of the various culture media, with the principles and methods of sterilization, and with the morphological and bio- logical characters of tile micro-organisms which belong to this The instruetion iu Pathology is under the charge of Professor departnleolt of study, particularly with those which cause disease. W. H. WELCH and of Dr. W. T. COUNCILMAN. The InetlIods of mnaking biological examinatiomos of the air, water, The Pathological Laboratory is one of the buildings of the and soil, are taught. Johns Hopkins Hospital, and was constructed for pathologicnl Facilities are afforded to those who are prepared to undertake work. original investigations in bneteriology. rJ?hse department of pathology is organized and condncted so as to work in During the inontIls of January, February and March Dr. close codperation with the department of normal biology in the University. ABBOTT will lecture upon selected bacteriological subjects. It is desired that those who take the courses of instruction in pathology shall have received preliminary training in normal histology, for the study Opportunity is afforded for practical instruction in Hygiene in oi which excellent facilities are afforded in the laboratory of normal biology the Hygienic Laboratory under the direction of Drs. J. S. BIL- under the direction of Professor Martin amid lois assistants. LINGS and A. C. ABBOTT. The courses in Pathological Histology are continued through- out the academic year. Those who take the course in this subject 100 JOIINS IIOPJf.INS [No. 82.

DEGREES CONFERRED JUNE 12, 1890.

DocToRs o~ PHILOSOPHY. WYATT WILLIA~M RANDALL, of Annapolis, Md A. B St. John’s Col- JOSEPH SWEETMAN AMEs, of Faribault, Minn., A. B., Johns Hopkins lege, 1884. Subjects: Chemistry, Physics, and Mineralo0y. Thesis: Ortho- University, 1886. Subjects: Physics, Mathematics, and Chemistry. Thesis: sulpho-para-toluic Acid and some of its derivatives. Notes on Spectrum-Analysis. GEORGE MANN RICHARDSON, of St. Louis, Mo., A. C., Lehigh Univer- EDWARD CAREY APPLEGARTH, of Baltimore, A. B., Johns Hopkins sity, 1886. Subjects: Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology. Thesis: Stan- University, 1887. Subjects: Animal Physiolo~,y, Animal Morphology, and nous Double Halide Salts, with a few notes upon tlle Cuprous Double Chemi~try. Thesis: Latency of the Knee-jerk. Halide Salts. CHARLES COTTON BLACKSHEAR, of Macon, Ga., A. B., Mercer Univer- JOSEPH SAMUEL SHEFLOE, ofWankon, Iowa, A. B., Luther College,1885. sity, 1881. Sabjects: Chemistry, Geolo~y, and Mineralogy. Thesis: Dioxy- Subjects: French, Italian and Spanish, and German. Thesis: Observations benzoyl-benzene-snlphonic Acid and Suiphon-Fluorescein. on the Phonology and Inflection of the Jersey-French Dialect. CHARLES HIRAM CHAPMAN, of Viroqua, Wis., A. B., Johns Hopkins ROBERT BENSON STEELE, of Lodi, Wis., A. B., University of Wisconsin, University, 1888. Subjects: Mathematics, Astronomy, and Physics. Thesis: 1883. Subjects: Latin, Sanskrit, and Roman Law. Thesis: Chiasmus in Riemann’s P-function. Sallust, Cnsar, Tacitus, and Justinus. RUDOLF JOHN JULIUS DE ROODE, JR., of Lexington, Ky., S. B., Ken- ANDREW STEPHENSON, of Fayette, Iowa, A. B., De Pauw University, tucky State College, 1885. Subjects: Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology. 1882. Subjects: History, Historical Jurisprudence, and Latin. Thesis: A Thesis: Some Halogen Substitution-Products of Benzoic Suiphinide. History of tile Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic. GEORGE PETER DREYER, of Baltimore, A. B., Johns Hopkins Univer- FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER, of Madison, Wis., A. B., University of sity, 1887. Subjects: Animal Physiology, Animal Morphology, and Chem- Wisconsin, 1884. Subjects: History, Political Economy, and International istry. Thesis: The Effect of Hemorrhage and Fasting on the Proteids of Law. Thesis: The Character and Influence of the Fur Trade in Wisconsin. the Blood in Cats. JOHN MARTIN VINCENT, of Elyria, Ohio, A. B., Oberlin College, 1883. EDWIN WHITFIELD FAY, of Gayden, La., A. M., Southwestern Presby- Subjects: History, Political Economy, and International Law. Thesis: terian University (Tenn ), 1883. Subjects: •Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin. Federal Governmnent in S~vitzerland. Thesis: The Treatment of Rig-Veda Mantras in the Grhya-Sdtras. SHOZABURO WATASE, of Tokio, Japan, S. B., Sapporo Agricultural Col- HENRY TORSEY FERNALD, of Amherst, Mass., S. B., Maine State College, lege, 1884. Subjects: Animal Morphology, Animal Physiology, and Com- 1885. Subjects: Animal Morphology, Animal Physiology, and Vegetable parative Psychology. Thesis: On the Morphology of the Compound Eyes Morphology. Thesis: The Relationships of Arthropods. of Arthropods. HENRY BRAYTON GARDNER, of Providence, H. 1., A. B., Brown Univer- JAMES ALBERT WOODBURN, of Bloomington, Ind., A. B., Indiana Univer- sity, 1884. Subjects: Political Economy, History, and Administration. sity, 1876. Subjects: History, Political Economy, and International Law. Thesis: A History of Taxation in Rhode Island. Thesis: The History of Higher Education in Indiana. CHARLES JAQumeS GOoDXvIN, of Farmiugton, Me., A. B., Bowdoin College, 1887. Subjects: Greek, Sanskrit, and Latin. Thesis: Apollonius Rhodius: On Commemoration Day, February 22, 1890, the Degree of Doctor of His Figures, Syntax, and Vocabulary. Philosophy was conferred on CHARLES HOMER HASKINS, of Meadville, Pa., A. B., Johns Hopkins JAMES TAFT HATFIELD, of Evanston, Illinois, A. B., Northwestern University, 1887. Subjects: History, Political Economy, and Historical University (Ill.), 1883. Subjects: Latin, Sanskrit, and German. Thesis: Jurisprudence. Thesis: The Yazoo Land Companies. A Discussion of the Literary Work of the Poet Juvencus. CHARLES HOLMES HERTY, of Milledgeville, Ga., Ph. B., University of JOHN COHN HEMMETER, Baltimore, M. D., University of Maryland, Georgia, 1886. Subjects: Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology. Thesis: 1883. Subjects: Animal Physiology, Chemistry, and Psychology. Thesis: The Double Halides of Lead and the Alkalies. The Comparative Physiological Effects of Ethylic Alcohols on the Isolated JESSE HERMAN HOLMES, of Lincoln, Neb., A. B., University of Nebraska, Mammalian Heart. 1884. Subjects: Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Biolo~y. Thesis: Paroxylene ABEL HENRY HUIZrNGA, of New Paltz, N. Y., A. B., Hope College, 1880. di-sulphonic Acid and some of its Derivatives. Subjects: Assyriology, Ethiopic and Arabic, and Greek. Thesis: Analog- ToYoKIcHI IYENAGA, of Yanagawa, Japan, Ph. B., Oberlin College, 1887. ical Formations in the Semitic Lan0uages. Subjects: History, Political Economy, and Admuinistration. Thesis: Tile Constitutional Development of Japan from 1853 to 1881. THOMAS LOGIE, of London, Out., A. B., University of Toronto, 1887. BACHELORS OF ARTS. Subjects: French, Italian and Spanish, and German. Thesis: Phonology of the Patois of Cachy (Somnmue). JOHN MCEwEN AMES, of Minnesota. IIIEAII BENJAMIN LooMIs, of Hartford, Coun., A. B., Trinity College WILLIAM HAND BROWNE, JR., of Baltimore. 1885. Subjects: Physics, Mathematics, and Chemistry. Thesis: A Study JAMES EDMUND BRYAN, JR., of Delaware. of the Effects of Changes of Temperature on Permanent Magnetism. RALPH ERSKINE CARSON, of Baltimore. JOHN HANSON TsOMAS MCPHERSON, of Baltimore, A. B., Johns Hop- WILLIAM hENRY CARSON, of New Jersey. kins University, 1886. Subjects: History, Political Economy, and Roman SIDNEY MILLmON CONE, of Baltimore. Law. Thesis: A History of Liberia. VERNON COOK, of Baltimore. HERBERT WILLIAM MAGOUN, of Bath, Me., A. B., Iowa Collebe, 1879. EDWIN STANTON FAUST, of Baltimore. Subjects: Sanskrit, Greek, a.nd Latin. Thesis: Tile Asuri-Kalpa,—a Witch- NED ARDEN FLOOD, of Pennsylvania. craft Practice of the Atharva-Veda,—text, translation, and commentary. HERBERT FRIEDENWALD, of Baltimore. WILMOT VERNON METCALF, of Elyria, Ohio, A. B., Oberlin Colle 0e, FIELDING HUDSON GARRISON, of Washington, D. C. 1883. Subjects: Chemistry, Physics, and Botany. Thesis: On the Reac- JOSEPH PHILIP GERRY, of Catonsville. tion of Certain Alcohols with Para-di azo-inetatoluene-sul phonic Acid. GEORGE WILLIAM GRAY, of Brooklyn, Md. THOMAS~ HUNT MORGAN, of Lexington, Ky., S. B., Kentucky State SAMUEL HARRIS GUGGENHEIMER, of Baltirilore. College, 1886. Subjects: Animal Morphology, Animal Physiology, and DANIEL 1)ORSEY GUY, of Baltimore. Vegetable Morphology. Thesis: A Contribution to the Embryology and JAMES ChEW JOHNSTON, of Kentucky. Phylogeny of the Pycuogonids. EnwARo PARKIN KEECH, JR., of Baltimore. AUGUSTUs TABEE MURRAY, of Richmond, md., A. B., Haverford Col- HENRY i\Ic ELDERRY KNOWER, of Baltimore. lege, 1885. Subjects: Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit. Thesis: On the use of BERWICK BRUCE LANIER, of Baltimore. Paratragoedia in the Comedies of Aristophanes, Witll a comparison of his SYLVAN HAYES LAUCIIHEIMER, of Baltimore. scenes and situations with those of the Tragid Poets. TILGHMAN BRICE MARDEN, of Baltimore. JUNE, 1890.] UNIVERSITY CJRCC/LABS. 101

GEORGE CLARENCE MORRISON, of Baltimore. WILLIAM WHITRIDGE, of Baltimore. ARTHUR ALEXANDER OEHM, of Baltimore. ADOLPH GRANT WOLF, of Washington, D. C. ARTHUR ROSEWALD OPPENHEIMER, of Baltimore. FRANK ALFRED WOLFF, JR., of Baltimore.

-LYMAN PIERSON POWELL, of Baltimore. JAMES HOMER WRIGHT, of Pennsylvania. SAMUEL Gu~ SNOWDEN, of Baltimore. OSCAR WOODWARD ZEIGLER, of Baltimore. JAMES ERNEST STOKES, of Govanstown. INAZO (OTA) NITOBE, of Japan, (extra ordinem.) ISAAC LOBE STRAUS, of Baltimore. CHARLES SNOWDEN WATTS, of Baltimore. On Commemoration Day, February 22, 1890, the degree of Bachelor of WILLIAM WALLACE WHITELOCK, of Baltimore. Arts was conferred on LUCIUS BRADLEY DOER, of New York. (37)

HONORS ANNOUNCED, JUNE 12, i8go.

ADAM T. BRUCE FELLOW, 1890-91. HONORS OF THE GRADUATING CLASS.

THOMAS HUNT MORGAN, of Lexington, Ky., S. B., Kentucky State Col- UNIVERSITY SCHOLARS. lege, 1886, Fellow in Biology, 1889—90. VERNON COOK. SYLVAN HAYES LAUCHURIMER. SAMUEL HARRIS GUGGENHEIMER. FELLOWS, 1890—91. RALPH EESKINE CARSON. JAMES EDMUND BRYAN, JR. WILLIAM WILSON BADEN, of Baltimore, A. B., Johns Hopkins Univer- ISAAC LOBE STRAUS. sity, 1881; LL. B., University of Maryland, 1883. Greek and Sanskrit. WILLIAM HENRY CARSON.

ROBERT PAYNE BIGELOW, of Washington, D. C., S. B., Harvard Univer- LYMAN PIERSON POWELL. - sity, 1887. Biology. FRANK ALFRED WOLFF, JR. EDWIN GRANT CONKLIN, of Delaware, 0., 5. B., Ohio Weslcyan Univer- JAMES HOMER WRIGHT. sity, 1885, and A. B., 1886. Biology. HONORABLE MENTION. WILLIAM LEVERING DEYRIES, of Baltimore, A. B., Johns Hopkins Uni- HENRY MCELDERRY KNOWER. versity, 1888. Greek. GEORGE CLARENCE MORRISON. GEORGE HOUGHTON GILMAN, of New York City, A. B., Columbia Col- lege, 1887. Jfothematics. THOMAS PERRIN HARRISON, of Abbeville, S. C., South‘Carolina Military HONORS OF THE FIRST AND SECOND YEARS IN THE Academy, 1886. English. UNDERGRADUATE COURSES. CHRISTOPHER JOHNSTON, JR., of Baltimore, A. M., University of Vir- HOPKINS SCHOLARS FROM MARYLAND. ginia, 1879. Semitic Languages. I. For proficiency in the studies of the first year: CHARLES ROLLIN KEYES, of Des Moines, Iowa, S. B., Iowa State Univer- Honorary Scholarships to — sity, 1887. Geology. CHARLES WILLIAM PEPPLER. EDWIN SEELYE LEWIS, of Indianapolis, md., A. B., Wabash College, - f THOMAS RICHARDSON BROWN. 1888. Romance Languages. 1. THEODORE WooLSEY JOHNSON. ARTHUR STANLEY MACKENZIE, of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, A. B., Scholarships to — WILLIAM CALVIN CHESNUT. Dalhonsie College, 1885. Physics. LUNSFORD EMORY BENNETT. HENRY PARKER MANNING, of Taunton, Mass., A. B., Brown University, 1883. Mothematics. II. For proficiency in the studies of the second year: WiLFRED PIEr MUSTARD, of Uxbridge, Ontario, A. B., University of honorary Scholarships to — Toronto, 1886. Latin. DANIEL GURDEN STEVENS, Jrc. WILLIAM BISSING. BARKER NEWHALL, of Baltimore, A. B., Ilaverford College, 1887. Greek. { ABRAHAM COHEN. EDWARD BENNETT RosA, of WeIlsyille, N. Y., S. B., Wesleyan Univer- XXTIILIAaI FRANCIS GALLAWAY. sity, 1886. Physics. Scholarships to — JACOB HARRY HOLLANDER. CHARLES EDWARD SAUNDERS, of Otta~va, Canada, A. B., University of Toronto, 1888. Chemistry. ~‘ILLIAM STUART SYMINGTON JR. BERNARD CHRISTIAN STE INER, of Baltimore, A. B., Yale University, 1888. History and Political Science. WASHINGTON SCHOLARSHIPS. BERT JOHN Vos, of Grand Rapids, Micli., A. B., University of Michigan, 1888. German. DELANO AMES. HENRY HAYWARD GLASSIE. JOHN WIIITE, Jn., of Poolesville, Md., A. B., Johns hopkins University, 1888. Ohemistry. HONORABLE MENTION. WESTEL WOODEURY WILLOUGHBY, of Washington, D. C., A. B., Johns I. For proficiency in the studies of the first year: Hopkins University, 1888. History and Political Science. CIIARLES JOSEPH WEST, of Georgia. JOHN BOSWELL WHIT ~HEAD, of Virginia. ALFRED COOKMAN BRYAN, of Delaware.

II. For proficiency in the studies of the second year: EDWIN GRANT CONKLIN, S. B., Ohio Wesleyan University, 1885, Fellow HARRY ANDREWS BIJMSTEAD, of Illinois. in Biology for 1890-91, has been appointed to occupy the University Table at the Laboratory of the U. S. Fish Commission at Wood’s Holl, Mass. These students ara ineligible to sTholarships, but are ~vorthyof honorable mention as of rank equal to that of tIme holders of the Hopkins Scholarslmips. 102 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY GIPO ULARS. [No. 82.

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CONTENTS.

PACE. PACE.

Programmes for 1890-91, - - - 87 Semitic Languages, - - 95

Mathematics, - - - 89 Romance Languages, - - 95 Astronomy, - - - - 89 German, — - — - - 96 Physics, including Electrical Engineering, - - - - - 89 English, - - - - - 97

Chemistry, - - - - 91 History and Politics, - - 97 Geology and Mineralogy, ------91 Philosophy, ------98 Biolo~y, including Physiology and Morphology, - - - - 92 Pathology and Bacteriology, - - 99 Greek, - - - - 94 Degrees Conferred, June 12, 1890, 100 Latin, - - - - 94 Honors Announced, June 12, 1890, 101 Sansknit and Camparative Philology, ------95 List of Publications, - - - 102

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