HONOURS. Fourth Year. All day Research Work and Reading under guidance. BOTANY. ORDINARY. First Year. Summer term-General lecture course of 50 meetings, and a practical course of 50 two-hour periods: Excursions in addition. Second Year. A three-term course with daily meetings throughout (150 meetings in all) and including courses of lectures and practical work in Morphology, Systematic Botany, Mycology and Physiology and Anatomy with field work and tutorial and individual work in addition. Third Year. A three-term course providing advanced instruction in the same subjects as are taken in the second year and giving more attention to certain other aspects of the subject, with field work, tutorial and individual work more fully developed than in the second year. HONOURS. Fourth Year. The work will be largely tutorial and individual, with abundant practical instruction, and it will include some piece of original investigation. GEOGRAPHY. ORDINARY. First Year. The outlines of General and Regional Geography. Three Lectures and two hours' practical work per week in each of the three terms. Minimum number of Lectures, 80. Minimum number of hours devoted to practical work, 60. Second Year, Three Lectures a week and two hours' practical work in each of the three terms. Third Year. Three Lectures a week and two hours' practical work in each of the three terms. The practical work will consist in the preparation of a thesis on an approved region. HONOURS. Fourth Year. Three Lectures a week in each of the three terms. ANATOMY. ORDINARY. First and Second Years. Three terms each year of instruction in Anatomy and Practical Anatomy as for Medical Degrees without reference to the Professional aspect of Anatomy given in Treatises on Anatomy, with one term in addition to the five terms of Anatomy and Practical Anatomy required for Medical Degrees, including Human Embryology. Records of candidates' class work will be taken into account with discretion. Third Year. Two terms of advanced instruction in Physical Anthropology, including a knowledge of race characters as exhibited by the skeleton and other parts of the body and an acquaintance with the structural relation of Man to other Vertebrates. One term advanced instruction in Embryology, Human and Vertebrate. HONOURS. Fourth Year. Three terms of advanced instruction, subsequent to courses required for B.Sc., Ordinary Degree, in Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates, including Man, and in Vertebrate Embryology. A duly authenticated record of research work performed by the candidate, provided that the research work be not allowed to take the place of a sound general knowledge of Anatomy as tested if necessary by written, oral and practical examination, will be included as part of the Honours Examination. ORDINARY. First Year. PHYSIOLOGY. Three terms of Physiology and Practical Physiology as for the NOTE. -Before attendance on the Advanced (Laboratory) Course in Physiology students are required to attend a course of Organic Chemistry either the course in Organic Chemistry for Medical Students or Course II. in Organic Chemistry for Science Students. Second Year. Three terms of advanced practical work-minimum of 10 hours a week-in Histology, Experimental Physiology and Physiological Chemistry, Reading, Demonstrations and Tutorial Instruction. The Comparative Physiology of the chief organs in Vertebrates is included and the applications of Physical Chemistry and Bio-physics in General Physiology. Laboratory records taken into account. Third Year. Three terms of laboratory work in the above-mentioned branches with Reading, Demonstrations and Tutorial Instruction. Laboratory records taken into account. HONOURS. Fourth Year. Three terms in continuation of the work of the third year, with the addition of research work to be carried out by the student. 2. Degree of B.Sc. in Agriculture.* The Degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture is conferred in accordance with the following Ordinance and Regulations made thereunder : UNIVERSITY COURT ORDINANCE, No. 122; ABERDEEN, No. 17. [Regulations for Degrees in Science in Agriculture.] [Dated 11th December, 1923, and approved by Order of His Majesty in Council, the 16th April, 1924.] I. A Degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture may be conferred by the University of Aberdeen. *The Course for the Diploma in Agriculture has been discontinued. By resolution of Senatus of date 31 May, 1927; approved by the University Court, 12 July, 1927, PRELIMINARY OR ENTRANCE EXAMINATION. II. Every candidate for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture must, before entering upon the curriculum, pass such Preliminary Examination or produce such evidence of fitness to enter upon the said curriculum as may be prescribed for students proceeding to graduation in Science by Ordinances of the Commissioners under the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889, or by General Ordinances of the University Courts of the four Scottish Universities, or by Ordinances of the University Court of the University of Aberdeen, in force for the time, or under powers conferred by any such Ordinance. [For Regulations anent Preliminary Qualifications, see under Admission to the University.] PRACTICAL WORK. III. Residence and practical work at a farm shall be required of each candidate to such an extent and under such regulations as the Senatus with the approval of the University Court may from time to time appoint. *[A candidate for the Degree or Diploma in Agriculture, before entering the class of Principles of Agriculture, must produce satisfactory evidence that he has spent a period or periods on a farm covering a complete year of farming operations. He must further produce a diary kept by himself during his period or periods of residence on the farm, giving details of the actual farm work in which he took part from day to day and also notes on the general management and work of the farm. This diary must be certified and signed by the farmer at the end of each month. Further, a Certificate signed by the Examiners certifying that this Regulation has been complied with must be produced when the Candidate enrols for graduation; provided always that the Examiners in the Principles of Agriculture may if they see fit require a Candidate to present himself for a practical examination on a farm. This Regulation applies to all candidates whether for an Ordinary or an Honours Degree.] ORDINARY DEGREE. IV. Every candidate for the Ordinary Degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture must in the course of not less than nine terms extending over not less than three academical years of three terms each, attend approved courses of instruction as prescribed under Sections V. and VI. of this Ordinance. * By resolution of Senatus of date 24 June, 1924; approved by the University Court, 8 July, 1924. V.-(1) Every candidate for the Degree must, in the course of six terms extending over not less than two academical years, attend courses of instruction in the University of Aberdeen, and must take the course in Agriculture (Plant Husbandry and Animal Husbandry) in that University. (2) The remainder of the required courses may be taken in other Universities or Institutions approved by the University Court, or under teachers recognised by the University Court for purposes of graduation in Science in Agriculture: Provided that the fees for attendance at an approved Institution in Aberdeen or under a recognised teacher there shall not be less than the fees exigible for the corresponding courses in the University of Aberdeen.* (3) A student who, during one or more academical years, has given attendance on classes in any of the subjects enumerated under Section VI., A. of this Ordinance, in any one or more of the other Scottish Universities (provided that such classes are recognised for graduation in Science), and who has passed the degree examinations prescribed in such other University, may be exempted from examination in the corresponding subjects in Aberdeen. Further, the Senatus may extend, under such conditions as they may from time to time prescribe, similar privileges to students who may have been in attendance at other Universities specially recognised for the purpose by the University Court. VI. The subjects of study shall be as follows: By resolution of the University Court of date 12th May, 1925, the following Universities have been recognised under this Section : (1) The Universities of Great Britain and Ireland; (2) Adelaide; Melbourne; Sydney; New Zealand; South Africa; Dalhousie Coll, and Univ., Halifax, N.S.; Queen's Coll, and Univ., Kingston, Ont.; Toronto; Manitoba; British Columbia; McGill Montreal; Chicago, Ill.; Cornell, Ithaca, N. Y.; Johns Hopkins, Baltimore; Harvard, Cambridge, Mass.; Stanford Palo. Alto. Cal.; Michiagan, Ann Arbor; Pennsylvania, Phil.; Yale, New Haven, Conn.; Princetown, New Jersey; Columbia, New York; The Imp. Univ. of Japan at Tokyo, Osaka and Sendia; State Univ. of California; Berkeley, and the Univ, of New York, |