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sLoi] of $2,600 a year. The teaching duties of these 

 men arc so exacting that they are given but a slight 

 chance to increase their income by private practice, 

 which is. however, permitted. 



The original Grant Medical College, so called in 

 honor of one of the former governors of Bombay, is a 

 substantial, venerable, two-story stone building. With 

 the increasing demand for space, additional buildings 

 have been erected. The anatomy building (Fig. 49). 

 now nearing completion, is a two-story, massive stone 



Fig. 49. — Anatomy Building. Grant Medical College. 



building, with marble floors; the upper story is the 

 dissecting room, which is flooded with light from all 

 directions. It is unquestionably the finest dissecting 

 room in the world. Connected with it is a small sep- 

 arate building, covered with wire screen for the purpose 

 of excluding vultures and crows, in which the bodies 

 are prepared and the bones of the dissected subjects are 

 cleaned and mounted. 



The chemical and pathologic laboratories are inade- 

 quate for the present requirements and it is hoped that 

 separate buildings will soon be erected for each of these 

 very important primary branches. With an ever in- 



