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east side opening out into the quadrangle yard, and that on the west side 

 into the yard in which the power house is situated. Facing the front 

 door is the staircase which leads to the upper floor, and going direct from 

 the door and passing the staircase a passage leads through a glass panelled 

 door to the back wing of the building. Into these two corridors all the 

 rooms on the ground floor open, excepting the serum store and the packing 

 room, which open on the back. The four front rooms in the centre of 

 the building are the offices, the two to the right are, first the office in which 

 all the technical records are kept, and next to it, with a connecting door, 

 that of the Government Veterinary Bacteriologist ; those to the left are 

 first the office of the Superintendent, under whose co]itrol is the organisa- 

 tion and all the business management of the station, and next, opening 

 out of it, the general clerical office. 



Adjoining the office of the Government Veterinary Bacteriologist 

 and connected by a door is his private laboratory, which opens out at the 

 farther end also into a sterilizing room. This laboratory is at present 

 chiefly used in connection with the study of Protozoa and their relation 

 to diseases of live stock. 



The last room on this side of the building is the Pathological 

 Laboratory, which also opens by another door into the same sterilizing 

 room. This laboratory is 25 ft. long x 16 ft. wide, and lighted by two 

 large windows facing the south, and one facing east, and is very com- 

 pletely fitted up for histological and bacteriological research. Here also 

 the examination of blood and other smears is carried on, as well as of 

 numbers of pathological specimens that daily come in from the country. 

 The extent of this branch of the work will be realised when it is stated 

 that during the past year 1,362 specimens were examined, and the number 

 is on a steady increase. The principal object of this laboratory is the 

 study of histological pathology of tropical diseases of the country, and 

 more especially of horse-sickness. East Coast fever, and the various 

 piroplasms. 



Next to the Pathological Laboratory, with two windows looking on 

 to the east, is the Zoological Laboratory. Though not directly connected 

 it is conveniently situated for using the same sterilizing room mentioned 

 before. This room is 18 ft. X 18 ft. 6 in., and is now chiefly devoted to 

 the study of intestinal parasites, and more especially to those found in 

 sheep, a matter of most vital importance to the sheep farmer of this 

 Colony. Here also the breeding of mosquitos is carried on and experiments 

 on their relation to the transmission of disease. 



Passing from the corridor through the door at the back of the building, 

 one comes out on to a wide verandah which faces the north and runs half 

 the length of the building. This was designed to protect from the sun's 

 rays the windows of the rooms facing the north, and so to preserve a 

 more equable temperature in the laboratory. On the left of the door is 



