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MISCELLANEOUS WORK. 



The zoological laboratory has been called upon for the determina- 

 tion of a number of parasites of various kinds which have been sent 

 in by farmers, vetei'inarians, physicians, boards of health, etc., and 

 has issued several publications describing some of the forms in ques- 

 tion. The zoologist was also detailed to the United States Army 

 Medical School, at the request of Surgeon-General Sternberg, to give 

 a coui-se of instruction in medical zoology to the newly appointed 

 medical officers. 



DETAILS TO SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS. 



The zoologist was also detailed to represent the Department of 

 Agriculture at the international zoological congress held in Berlin, 

 Germany, in 1901, and has continued to serve on the international 

 commission on zoological nomenclature. 



THE BUREAU EXPERIMENT STATION. 



During the year ended June 30, 1902, the station was compelled to 

 give so much time to the work required of it l)y the several lal)ora- 

 tories of the Bureau that practically no independent investigations of 

 importance could be undertaken. This is true not only with respect 

 to time, but also with regard to the space and facilities for properly 

 handling experiments concerning a variety of infectious diseases. 



In addition to testing a number of supposedly pathogenic germs on 

 cattle, donkej's, hogs, sheep, and smaller experiment animals, inves- 

 tigations concerning the following diseases were conducted dui-ing the 

 3 ear : Hog cholera, swine plague, tuberculosis, tetanus, rabies, anthrax, 

 Texas fever, foot rot of sheep, an infectious disease of horses resem- 

 bling and probably identical with maladie du coit, and a number of 

 affections of minor importance. Other work conducted by the experi- 

 ment station was the growing of several varieties of cattle ticks; 

 experiments with drugs for the removal of internal parasites from 

 domestic animals; the production of antitoxic sera for the treatment 

 of swine plague, hog cholera, tuberculosis, and tetanus; the care and 

 protection from exposure to disease of animals for producing normal 

 sera, and the breeding and rearing of numerous small experiment 

 animals for the use of the Bureau laboratories. 



MISCELLANEOUS DIVISION. 

 QUARANTINES. 



The work of the quarantine stations during the past fiscal year 

 shows a marked increase over that of the preceding year, more than 

 double the number of cattle having passed through the various quar- 

 antine stations. 



Quarantine station for the port of Baltimore. — Necessary repairs 

 were made on the buildings, fences, water-supply apparatus, and load- 

 ing and unloading chutes for this station, located at Halethorp, Md., 

 where 227 head of Hereford cattle were comfortably quarantined. 



Quarantine stationforthe portof Neiv York. — The property at Gar- 

 field, N. J,, which has been leased hy the Government and maintained 

 as a quarantine station for the port of New York since 1883, Avas 

 vacated September 30, 1901. The transfer to the new station, having 

 been in progress during the summer, was comiDleted at this time. 



