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INTRODUCTION 
Appointment 
of Assistant 
i5acteriologist 
and 
Pathologist 
Staff 
changes 
The Museum 
Donors of 
specimens 
Lack of space 
The outlook 
j\re(lical College, London, Init had worked for a year in Colonel Leisliman’s laboratory under 
that distinguished observer’s personal supervision. Further, Mr. Archibald was just leaving 
for special service in LTganda, so that prior to his joining us in April, 1908, he had obtained 
practical e.vperience in Sleeping Sickness and other important tropical disorders, many of 
which are identical with those prevailing in the Southern Sudan. He at once settled 
down to work and, apart from rendering most useful general assistance, was able to aiil 
me in the compilation of the Jleview, and to undertake an investigation into the value of 
the native zeer as a water filter, besides instituting a comparison between his observations 
in Uganda and those of Captain Howard Ensor in the Bahr-El-dhazal Province of the 
Sudan. 
Otherwise the staff remains as before. Mr. .1. d. A. Vitale became Head Clerk, and 
was furnished with an assistant. These changes were rendered absolutely necessary by 
the great increase in oftice and clerical work. 
The IMuseum has continued to expand, and, in addition to pathological and entomological 
material, exhibits of “ Solaro ” tropical clothing, tablets for water sterilisation, etc., have 
been obtained and are likely to be of use to officials. One is always glad to receive specimens 
dealing in any w.iy with tropical sanitation. Colonel Hunter and Jlr. and JIrs. Broun 
presented native drugs from Kassala and Kordofan respectively, while the principal 
donors on the j)athological side have been Cajitains Anderson, Bonstiehl, T’homson, Ensor 
and Mackenzie, of the Egyptian Medical Service; 1 )rs. Crispin and Waterfield, of the 
Sudan Jledical Department; and Cai)tains Olver and Williams, of the Veterinary Service. 
Captain P. E. Vaughan has once more sent many blood films, some of which proved of 
value; Captain C. Percival presented ts(d,se Hies, together with notes upon them, and there 
have been other presentations from divers sources. A few words as to the inadequacy of the space 
at our disposal. We have in all six rooms, but could do with twice that number. Fortunately 
the Tdirector of Education will ere long be able to aid us to some extent in this direction, 
but one cannot help feeling that sooner or later the time will arrive when the laboratories 
must be housed in a sp(fcial and sei)arate bnihling. There is no desire to be dissociated 
from the 1 )epartment of Education, for the laboratories have henefited greatly by this 
relationshi[i, and hapjiily there will he no need to go far away. Mr. Currie is willing to 
grant us the ground ueiaissary, provided funds are furthcoming. The type of building one 
would like to see is that in which so much good work has lieen performed at Jlanila in the 
Philippine Islands. We look forward to the day when all the various branches of Science 
represeiipMl in the Sudan will be gathered under one roof, ami when the usefulness of the 
laboratoi'ies will be enhanced by the establishment of a serum department. Scientific 
veterinary work is ot the utmost value and importance in such a country as this, and the 
laboratories should certainly be able to afford the Veterinary Dfficers every facility for the 
manufacture and storage of curative and preventive sera as well as for the study of 
the numerous diseases wdiich affect Sudanese stock. Sera, for use in medical cases and 
vaccine lymph, might also be manufactured, lor at present transport, especially in the 
Slimmer, is apt to ruin lymph and serum, and in a hot country curative sera may rapidly 
lose their potency unless very carefully stored. Doubtless a long time must elapse before 
such an ideal is attained, but a first step would be the provision of new premises, 
which would be caretully planned to afford every facilitv for working; a point even 
more imjiortant in the 'Fropics than within the temperate zone. 
We have been so fortunate in the past in getting what was alisolutely essential that one 
