Our series examining an Image of the Week from the photographic files, by Kevin Warstadt, Digital Program Specialist.

Zoology Class ca 1940

This week’s photo comes from a folder titled “Zoology Department.”

Students of the natural sciences at Dartmouth didn’t always study under a single department. They once studied at the Chandler School, which did not become an incorporated department until 1892. The Chandler Department then divided into the departments of Zoology, Botany, and Geology, and in 1960 the Zoology and Botany departments combined to form the Department of Biological Sciences. Read more about the history of the department in the Biology Collection Development Policy Guidelines. See more Zoology department photos in the Dartmouth Library photographic files.