Washington State University - Chinook Yearbook (Pullman, WA)

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DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY I. D. CARDIFF, HEAD OF DEPARTMENT “Botany is urgently recommended as a harmless and interesting study for young ladies ' so states an introduction to an eighteenth century work on Botany, or rather, “A Study of Flowers.’ ' From early days down almost to the present time, such ideas as this have prevailed more or less with reference to the science of botany. Owing to the activity of the early systematic botanists and their methods of teaching, many people are apt to think of the science as a study of flowers. The science as we know ' it today, however, is one of the most comprehensive and important fields of knowledge. It touches human life at many angles, and in an institution like the State College, becomes the fundamental science for the various lines of agricultural and horticultural work, as well as furnishing important contributions in the fields of pharmacy, home economics, and sanitary engineering. From a superficial study of flowers, this science has developed into an enormous, complex field of organized knowledge dealing with the application of the fundamental principles of physics and chemistry to living matter, and has become a science almost as exact in its details as the latter. The fundamental principles of sanitation and in¬ heritance have for the most part, been worked out in the botanical laboratory, as have many of the major problems dealing with the conservation and increase of the world’s food supply. The department at the State College is manned by a staff of ten botanists, and oc¬ cupies tw ' enty-one rooms in Science Hall. Its laboratories are well equipped and its herbarium is the best in the West, There are offered thirty-three courses, including the fields of general Botany, Morphology, Physiology, Pathology, Bacteriology, Pharma¬ ceutical Botany, Food and Drug Testing, Seed Testing, Taxonomy and Ecology. In ad¬ dition to its teaching work, the department performs important services to the State by investigations in various lines and by the bacteriological testing of milk and other dairy products;: bacteriological testing of water; the examination of seeds, the identification of weds, etc., also the manufacture of cultures for legume inoculation. Page 29

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