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aging the apparatus is not to open the vault very rauch while the engine 

 s not running. When the vault is opened frequently during the day 

 is temperature rises rapidly and necessitates starting the machine. 

 The temperature records of December 2 & 3 may be accounted for 

 by the frequent opening of the vault. After we are accustomed to 

 a cold storage plant for the preservation of anatomical material it is 

 difficult to understand how we ever got along without it; as difficult 

 as it is to get along without a microtome. It makes us commander 

 of the situation for all times of the year. 



In our anatomical course we employ extensively pig's hearts and 

 lungs, sheep's head and other material obtained from the slaughter 

 house. These materials are frozen and kept on hand constantly, 

 The same applies to dissection during the holidays when students 

 cannot attend to them. More important than either of these is the 

 preservation of large dissections used in teaching, for dispenses wholly 

 with the large alcohol vats. The large dissections are wrapped in 

 vaselined cloths and simply labeled. It is as easy to manage such 



