Beaver County News | 1926-09-10 | Page 5 | Will Study Flowers of the Wasatch Mountains

WILL STUDY FLOWERS OF THE WASATCH MOUNTAINS "Spring Flowers of the Wasatch Mountains," is the title of a special course in botany which will be taught at the University of Utah during the coming school year. The students will be taken out on field trips in the spring to make a detailed ! study of the plant life here in the .state of Utah. Before that time the ( work will be confined to the class-l class-l room and the text book. Professor Harold R. Hagen, one of Utah's foremost biologists, is head of the department of zoology and botany bot-any at the University and is assisted in botany by assistant Professor Dolly C. Lutjeharms. "Seedless plants," "Plant Breeding," Breed-ing," and "Plant Diseases," are a few of the courses that are taught in the University bota.ny department. A great interest is shown on the part of the college students for these studies of nature. Several of the courses go to make up part of the requir'ed work in the school of medl- cine and that of arts and sciences. A biological museum makes up part of the department's equipment. In this the students have specimeus of plant and animal life which they use in their laboratory study. U. of U. NEWS BUREAU.