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SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 
meet the great demand, which existed at that time and has since 
increased, for courses of lectures and practical instruction in bacterio- 
logy. Mr. Crookshank, a former pupil of King’s College, accepted 
the Lectureship, the first appointment of its kind in this country, and 
accommodation for practical instruction was provided in one of the class- 
rooms of the physiological laboratory. The success of these classes 
was so great that the Council resolved to provide special and permanent 
accommodation for the courses of instruction, and to grant facilities also 
for original research. For this purpose the Council created a depart- 
ment distinct from that of physiology, and one of the largest lecture- 
rooms in the College, admirably adapted for microscopical work, was 
converted into a teaching and research laboratory and lecture-room, and 
additional rooms were built for the Professor and to complete the 
necessary accommodation. The laboratory was duly licensed for 
research, and Mr. Crookshank was promoted to the newly created 
professorial chair ; and with the aid of a contribution from him of 
1000/. towards the expenses of the laboratory, the Council were able, 
without any loss of time, to completely equip the laboratory with all the 
fittings, instruments, and material necessary for the investigation of the 
diseases of man and the lower animals, and for the study of bacteriology 
in all its applications. 
To enter as a pupil, or for the purpose of undertaking original 
investigation, it is not necessary to have had any previous connection 
with King’s College. The laboratory has been opened to all, and, as set 
fortli in the original syllabus, special inducements were offered from 
the very first to medical men in practice, medical officers of health, 
analysts, medical and veterinary officers of the services, and any others 
whose duties might prevent a daily attendance. 
It will be a source of satisfaction and gratification to the Council to 
learn that, from the foundation six years ago up to the date of this 
report, the number of students qualified and unqualified who have 
entered the laboratory for instruction or for research amounts to 419. 
This number comprises general practitioners, army and navy surgeons, 
medical officers of health, analysts, biologists, veterinary surgeons, and 
veterinary and medical students. A few have previously been connected 
with the College or Hospital ; a great number have been qualified 
medical men from the United States ; others have come from New 
South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, China, India, Ceylon, Chili, Cape 
of Good Hope, and Trinidad; and if the medical officers of the army 
and navy on leave from foreign service are added to this list, they will 
serve to illustrate how widely the laboratory is known, and the Council 
will realize still more fully how great a want existed, and that it has 
been met by their action. 
It will be still more gratifying to refer somewhat in detail to the 
work done in the laboratory as regards original research and work on 
behalf of the State. Among the first to make use of the laboratory in con- 
nection with work for the Government may be mentioned Prof. Brown, C.B., 
of the Board of Agriculture. The Hon. H. N. MacLaurin, M.D., President 
of the Board of Health, New South Wales, passed through a course of 
instruction, and paid special attention to actinomycosis. On his return 
he continued his observations, and published them in the Official Reports 
of the Board. Mr. Park, Government Veterinary Surgeon, Tasmania, 
