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Biology Department

The Biology department occupies the entire upper floor of the Science Annex of the new Jesse Dunn Hall. It consists of a very fine lecture room with inclined floor and a seating capacity for 108 people; a fully equipped zoology and physicolgy laboratory with all the modern apparatus for such a laboratory; a botany and bacteriology laboratory fully equipped; a recitiation room for 40 people; two offices; a preparation laboratory for major students and a museum of natural hisotry composed of several hundred specimens most of which are birds and other animals native to Woods and adjoining counties. The museum is accessible to all biology students and is further used as a teaching aid in biology classes.

It is the aim of the department to aid in a general way major students of other departments; to prepare students for teaching the biological sciences in the High School and to offer courses of instruction leading to the more specific fields of medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, and bacteriology. We attempt to keep up with the research work done in the Biological Sciences and stimulate a spirit of original investigation among major students.

Some Biology students are junior members of the Oklahoma Academy of Science and have papers being published at the present time.

Each year the upper division students of the department attend the Spring Meeting of the Academy which is held in some of the mountains of Oklahoma or other palce where interesting programs of scientific or entertaining nature are prepared. This meeting is one of the most enjoyable field trips of the year.

Although some of the courses are specific instructions in botany or zoology, the fundamental biological laws and a deeper appreciation of nature are particularly taught. The enthusiasm for the beauty in nature permeates the department's spirit.

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