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In 1893, students with nets and sample jars did field work in a marshy area in Urbana.

Which class was it?

Answer: Botany

The marshy area was a block bounded by Lincoln, Pennsylvania, and Vermont, just east of the present-day campus.

Image 0003943 courtesy of the University of Illinois Archives.

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