APPARATUS AND MATERIAL. 



A. For general use. This includes the apparatus and chemicals to 

 be used in common by all students. It consists of pans and brushes 

 for cleaning test tubes and other glass ware, meat mincer and press, 

 large and small water baths, steam sterilizers, hot-air sterilizers, incu- 

 bators, thermometers, thermostats, gas burners, balances, leveling 

 tripods, Wolrrhiigels' or other apparatus for aids in counting colonies, 

 micrometers, metric rules, burettes, tripods, funnels, beakers, pipettes, 

 graduates, glass tubing and rods. The chemicals necessary for carry- 

 ing, on the work, such as various acids and alkalies, disinfectants, 

 alcohol, aniline dyes, and those articles needed in the preparation of 

 culture media, such as salt, peptone, agar, gelatin, meat extract, 

 sugars, litmus and other indicators, and filter paper. Fresh meat, 

 eggs, milk and potatoes must be furnished as needed. It also includes 

 color charts and the more important books of reference. 



B. For individual use. These are various appliances used by each 

 student and for which he becomes personally responsible. They con- 

 sist of a microscope with substage condenser, two oculars (i and 2 in.) 

 and three objectives (f , \ and y* inch), a bottle of immersion oil, a 

 tripod magnifier, 75 small test tubes, 50 large test tubes, 12 fermenta- 

 tion tubes, 18 Petri dishes, 3 Erlenmeyer flasks, 7 one ounce bottles for 

 reagents and stains, 7 pipettes with rubber bulbs to fit bottles, I 

 platinum-wire loop, i platinum-wire needle, 3 tin cups for holding 

 cultures, 3 tin boxes for holding test tubes, i block for holding reagent 

 bottles, i glass slide with ring attached for hanging-drop preparations, 

 i tin tray for cover-glass preparations, 4 solid watch glasses, 2 Stender 

 dishes for used slides and cover-glasses, and a glass box for clean 

 cover-glasses. 



Each working table is provided with a reserve-flame, gas burner 

 (Bunsen), glass jars for waste, and stands for holding culture tubes. 

 A requisite amount of absorbent cotton, lens paper, and towels are 

 furnished. 



Each student is to provide himself with a box of slides and cover- 

 glasses ( % inch square cover-glasses preferred ; they must be between 

 .12 and .18 mm. in thickness), gummed labels for slides and tubes, a 

 Faber's blue pencil for marking on glass, fine forceps for handling 

 cover-glasses, and paper for laboratory notes with manilla card board 

 covers. 



