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time has proved that the new system, from the students' point 

 of view, is a decided advance upon the old. 



The Department at the present time consists of a capacious 

 lecture-room, practical class-room (see illustration), a museum, 

 several bacteriological laboratories and apartments for special 

 research, a photographic room, workshops, animal accommo- 

 dation, and abundance of storage. It is quite possible that, 

 before long, we may have to add on to these, but meanwhile 

 they are fairly sufficient for the purposes required of them. 



Mr. G. M. Duncan, M.B., CM., Senior Assistant and 

 Lecturer on Bacteriology, conducts a class of advanced 

 Bacteriology, summer and winter, for medical graduates and 

 those preparing for the Diploma of Public Health. 



Dr. A. R. Laing, the second assistant, presides over the 

 part of the municipal public health office concerned with the 

 bacteriological examination of products from cases of contagious 

 disease. The municipal authorities are in league with a large 

 number of districts in the north-east of Scotland which are 

 entitled to the same privileges as the city itself in so far as they 

 can have brushings from diphtheria, typhoid blood, phthisical 

 sputum, etc., examined on subscribing a merely nominal fee to 

 the common fund. 



One great object, all along, has been to encourage original 

 research, and, since acquiring the new premises, such research 

 work has been rendered possible. We have always a supply 

 of young men anxious to do original work, and it is in this 

 direction that it is desirable to extend the usefulness of the 

 Department. 



Even although the Department has been in existence for 

 quarter of a century, it is yet far from being thoroughly equipped 

 for either research or teaching purposes. Makeshift appliances 

 have had to be utilized in the past which are not creditable 

 to a great University, and which have seriously trammelled 



