CATALOG 1952-1953


 BLY. 530.-Individual Problems in Animal Biology. Hours and credits to
be arranged. Required of all candidates for the master's or doctor's degree.
Prerequisite: Graduate status and consent of instructor. Offered 1, 2, 3.
 Each applicant undertakes an approved individual problem in biology, the results
of which will be presented as a thesis. The problem will be carried out under the
direction of a supervisory committee of the staff who may recommend repeated en-
rollments for full credit. Problems may be chosen from one or more aspects of the
following fields: comparative anatomy, cytology, ecology, embryology, experimental
biology, fresh water biology, game management, herpetology, histology, ichthyology, in-
vertebrate zoology including arachnology and insect biology, mammalogy, marine biology,
ornithology, parasitology, general or comparative physiology, and zoogeography.
 BLY. 533.-Problems and Concepts of Taxonomy and Nomenclature. 2
hours. 2 credits. Offered 1.
 A critical study of selected taxonomic synopses, revisions, and monographs with
special reference to the bearing of the principles and concepts of distribution, genetics
and ecology on taxonomic problems.
 BLY. 541.-Wildlife Conservation. 3 hours. 3 credits. Open only to
qualified graduate majors in Biology. Offered 2.
 The application of a taxonomic and ecological background to various specific
problems of Florida game and wildlife management.
 BLY. 565.-Cancer Research Seminar. 1-3 hours. 1-3 credits. Offered 1,
3.
 Discussion of the work of the Cancer Research Laboratory. Papers on the cur-
rent literature. A presentation of a thesis.
 BLY. 566.-Cancer Research Seminar. 1-3 hours. 1-3 credits. Offered 2,
3.
 Second half of BLY. 565.
 BLY. 570.-Oncology. 2 hours, and 3 hours laboratory. 3 credits. Of-
fered 1.

 BLY. 581.-Cancer Research Problems. 1-9 credits. Offered 1, 2, 3.

 BOTANY
 Instructional Staff 1951-52
 Tisdale, W. B., Chairman, Division of Botany; Cody, M. D., Davis, J. H., Ford,
E. S., Griffith, Mildred, Powell, R. D., West, Erdman.

 BLY. 101.-General Botany. 2 hours, and 2 hours laboratory. 3 credits.
Offered 1, 3.
 The form, structure, growth, reproduction, and physiology of plants and their
various organs.
 BTY. 102.-General Botany. 2 hours, and 2 hours laboratory. 3 credits.
The second half of course BTY. 101-102. Offered 2, 3. Prerequisite: BTY. 101
or equivalent.
 Representatives of major groups of plants regarding their classification, life his-
tories and environmental relations.


The statement "Offered 1" means offered first semester; 2, second semester; 3, summer session.