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came over to study bacteriology, particularly actinomycosis and tuber- 
culosis, and was thus enabled to make valuable reports and suggestions 
at the Australasian Stock Conference. Prof. Anderson Stuart, of 
Sydney, passed through a special course of instruction, and investigated 
the tubercle bacillus, preparatory to proceeding to Berlin to study 
Koch’s treatment of phthisis. His researches were published in an 
exhaustive report to the Government, aud the assistance which he 
received in this laboratory was acknowledged in the preface to his 
report. [Others follow for which we have no space.] 
Important researches have been carried out on behalf of the Agri- 
cultural Department of the Privy Council — now the Board of Agricul- 
ture — and Prof. Crookshank, who undertook these researches, received 
in 1890 the thanks of the Privy Council. The results were published 
in the following reports : — (1) Report on the so-called Hendon Cow 
Disease and its relation to Scarlet Fever in Man. (2) Report on a 
Micro-organism alleged to be the contagium of Scarlet Fever. (3) 
Report on Anthrax in Swine. (4) Report on Tubercular Mammitis in 
Cows and the Infectivity of the Milk. (5) Report on Actinomycosis 
in Cattle in Great Britain. (6) Report on Actinomycosis in Man in 
Great Britain. (7) Report on Actinomycosis in Cattle in Foreign 
Countries. (8) Report on Actinomycosis in Man in Foreign Countries. 
(9) Report on Cowpox and Horsepox. 
The Council will see from this Report that original investigation has 
been a very important part of the work conducted in the Laboratory of 
King’s College since its foundation ; but as a department of King’s 
College, it is especially necessary at the present time to lay stress upon 
the fact that it has occupied and still retains a unique position in this 
country as a teaching institution. It was not only the first laboratory 
established, but it always has been, and still is, in marked contrast to 
the bacteriological laboratories attached to the pathological department 
of some of the medical schools, in that systematic courses of instruction 
are regularly given throughout the whole academical year, and are 
open to any one. It is a public laboratory, and as such has already 
attracted a large number of workers, not only from London and the 
provinces, but from our colonies and other countries. 
It will not be out of place in this report to add that Prof. Watson 
Cheyne, previous to the creation of a surgical pathological laboratory, 
made use of the bacteriological laboratory for a part of his work on 
tubercular disease of bones, and Prof. Ferrier also, pending the equip- 
ment of a neurological laboratory, performed there some of the experi- 
ments which were published in his most recent work on Cerebral 
Localization.” 
B. Technique.* 
Behrens’ Introduction to Botanical Microscopy, f — This work 
differs considerably in its scope from the standard work for the botanical 
laboratory, Strasburger’s ‘ Botanisches Praktikum.’ The latter is chiefly 
* This subdivision contains (1) Collecting Objects, including Culture Pro- 
cesses ; (2) Preparing Objects ; (3) Cutting, including Imbedding and Microtomes, 
(4) Staining and Injecting; (5) Mounting, including slides, preservative fluids, &c. 
(6) Miscellaneous. 
t ‘Leitfaden der botanischen Mikroskopie,’ Braunschweig, 1892, 208 pp. and 
150 figs. 
