DESCRIPTION OF LABORATORIES 15 
table and a bath for 'imbedding' preparations in wax, in order to facilitate sectioning, is provided 
for the use of the students. By sectioning is meant the cutting of the pieces of tissue into 
sufficiently thin slices for proper examination by the microscope. The slices have to be very thin, 
and with the apparatus provided the student should be able to cut slices much less than a thousandth 
of an inch in thickness. But most of the ' sections ' given to tlie student are prepared ready for 
him, and already stained with various dyes that clearly differentiate the various elements of the 
structure. Adjoining the class-room is a large Preparation Room, in which this work of preparing 
specimens for distribution to the students is carried on. The material worked through each year 
forms an epitome of the structure of all portions of the human body, including the sense organs 
(eye, ear, etc.), and the brain. 
The assistant staff of the School of Physiology (including Histology) consists of the 
following teachers — the Assistant-Lecturer on Chemical Physiology, Dr. A. S. Griinbaum, 
M.R.C.P., to whose care are largely owing the excellent arrangements of the new Chemical 
department of the Laboratory: Senior Demonstrator, Dr. E. E. Laslett, a former Holt Scholar of 
Physiology, and more recently a resident officer in the Royal Infirmary : tlie Demonstrator, Dr. 
Stookes, formerly Demonstrator in the Anatomical Department : and Mr. Watson, wlio, as Holt 
Fellow of Physiology, has in the past year rendered invaluable service in the Histological Classes 
of the Phjfsiology School. 
The School of Pathology 
The department occupies the ground floor and basement of the Thompson Yates 
block, and is built into the old existing Pathological Museum. The Museum thus becomes 
part of the Laboratory. The Museum is a very large, liandsome room, witli a gallery exceedingly 
well lit by a large top light, and in the evening by electricity, and is also thoroughly well heated. 
It is now nearly full of specimens, and museum expansion will soon have to be thought of ; the 
present collection is fast approaching the large figure of 3,000. A special feature of the Museum 
is a large number of photographs by Mr. Thelwall Thomas, and a series of beautiful paintings by 
Dr. Glynn. 
The Museum opens into the Morbid Histology Claa-rooin — a very large room capable of 
seating 60 students for practical work : each student has abundant bench and locker accommoda- 
tion, an electric lamp, gas, and water supply. The bench tops are covered with slabs of opaline, 
and therefore are impervious to dirt. The room is furnished with an electric projection lamp, 
hot-water and steam supply. 
Openi ng out of the previous room is the Holt Fellows Roofn^ where tlie specunens for the 
class are kept, and sections of all tissues made. 
On the other side of the corridor another series or rooms are placed. There is a 
very large Private Experimental Room fitted with shafting and other apparatus driven by an 
electric motor. Adjacent are the Developing and Microphotographic rooms. The Batcriological 
Laboratory is a very large room. The benches are covered with opaline ; each student has 
