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\j;%<-$ > The Arthur herbarium Purdue University /fSi The Teaching of PlantP%si^o^^TTuTT!l3^in the Nineteenth Century Raymond E. Girton, Purdue University The first issue of "The Purdue University Register" was for the academic year of 1874-75 (1). Some thirteen courses in botany were listed as taught by John Hussey, professor of botany and horticulture. These courses ranged from 2 hours of Economic Botany to 10 hours of "Cryptogamic Botany and Work in the Laboratory." Plant physiology was not overlooked, for one 5-hour course was entitled "Physiological and Structural Botany" and another was called "Experiments in Fertilization of Plants". Something about the method of teaching botany is included in the catalog section devoted to "Natural History". It reads "The instruction in Botany will embrace all the principal branches of this science. After three terms of descriptive and systematic Botany, the student will be expected to do laboratory work, making use of the microscope in Cryptogamic Botany and the study of the physiology of plants; proceeding to experiments in fertilization and to special topics. Herbarium work will be required throughout the entire course." This account also contains a list of "books of reference" which includes "Wood's, Gray's, Youman's, Greene's, and Chapman's textbooks on botany," as well as "Henslow's Botanical Charts," and the "Prodro- mus" of DeCandole. Reference journals kept "in the Reading Room" included "The Gardener's Monthly" and "The American Naturalist". In the second year (1875-76) "The Annual Circular of Purdue University" (2) had this to say about the course dealing with plant physiology: "Structural and Physiological Botany, same as in the general course, with the addition of the more recondite facts and principles, including the character and relations of parts of seeds, morphology, facts and methods of fertilization, origin of tissues, relations of plants to animals, species, etc." These descriptions continued to apply over a period of six years and suggest that the courses were taught from year to year in much the same manner during Professor Hussey's tenure. The "Annual Register" for 1880-81 (3) carries the information that Professor Hussey had resigned and that his successor was "Charles R. Barnes, A.M., Instructor in Botany, Zoology, and Geology". As might be expected, some changes occurred in the catalog description of Barnes' courses in botany. We find: "The second term is devoted to Physiological Botany, including the subjects of food, assimilation, and metastases, growth, fertilization, influence of light and temperature, movements, etc." This course was listed as "Physiological Botany, with experiments and laboratory work." In 1881-82 advanced work in plant physiology was offered and the writing of a thesis indicated. "The remainder of the term will be 260
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Purdue Identification Number | UA9b001f101i001 |
Title | The Teaching of Plant Physiology at Purdue in the Nineteenth Century pg. 1 |
Creators | Girton, Raymond E., 1899 |
Description | Reprint of "The Teaching of Plant Physiology at Purdue in the Nineteenth Century" in the History of Science of the Indiana Academy of Science, vol. 67. 1958. |
Date of Original | 1958 |
Decade | 1950-1959 |
Extent of Original | 6 x 9 in. |
Form/Genre | correspondence |
Type | text |
Language | eng |
Repository | Purdue University Herbaria; Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center, Purdue University Libraries |
Collection Title | UA9, Purdue University Herbaria Correspondence Collection |
Series Title | Correspondence |
Folder Title | Reprint of "The Teaching of Plant Physiology at Purdue in the Nineteenth Century" in the History of Science of the Indiana Academy of Science, vol. 67. 1958. |
Rights Statement | Rights held by Purdue University Herbaria |
Date Digitized | 12/02/2014 |
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Full Text | \j;%<-$ > The Arthur herbarium Purdue University /fSi The Teaching of PlantP%si^o^^TTuTT!l3^in the Nineteenth Century Raymond E. Girton, Purdue University The first issue of "The Purdue University Register" was for the academic year of 1874-75 (1). Some thirteen courses in botany were listed as taught by John Hussey, professor of botany and horticulture. These courses ranged from 2 hours of Economic Botany to 10 hours of "Cryptogamic Botany and Work in the Laboratory." Plant physiology was not overlooked, for one 5-hour course was entitled "Physiological and Structural Botany" and another was called "Experiments in Fertilization of Plants". Something about the method of teaching botany is included in the catalog section devoted to "Natural History". It reads "The instruction in Botany will embrace all the principal branches of this science. After three terms of descriptive and systematic Botany, the student will be expected to do laboratory work, making use of the microscope in Cryptogamic Botany and the study of the physiology of plants; proceeding to experiments in fertilization and to special topics. Herbarium work will be required throughout the entire course." This account also contains a list of "books of reference" which includes "Wood's, Gray's, Youman's, Greene's, and Chapman's textbooks on botany," as well as "Henslow's Botanical Charts," and the "Prodro- mus" of DeCandole. Reference journals kept "in the Reading Room" included "The Gardener's Monthly" and "The American Naturalist". In the second year (1875-76) "The Annual Circular of Purdue University" (2) had this to say about the course dealing with plant physiology: "Structural and Physiological Botany, same as in the general course, with the addition of the more recondite facts and principles, including the character and relations of parts of seeds, morphology, facts and methods of fertilization, origin of tissues, relations of plants to animals, species, etc." These descriptions continued to apply over a period of six years and suggest that the courses were taught from year to year in much the same manner during Professor Hussey's tenure. The "Annual Register" for 1880-81 (3) carries the information that Professor Hussey had resigned and that his successor was "Charles R. Barnes, A.M., Instructor in Botany, Zoology, and Geology". As might be expected, some changes occurred in the catalog description of Barnes' courses in botany. We find: "The second term is devoted to Physiological Botany, including the subjects of food, assimilation, and metastases, growth, fertilization, influence of light and temperature, movements, etc." This course was listed as "Physiological Botany, with experiments and laboratory work." In 1881-82 advanced work in plant physiology was offered and the writing of a thesis indicated. "The remainder of the term will be 260 |
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