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ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1905 OF 
THE PRINCIPAL OF 
THE ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
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Research Laboratory. 
During the year 1905, 692 morbid specimens were forwarded 
for examination to the Laboratory which was established at the 
Royal Veterinary College in 1890 for research in Comparative 
Pathology and Bacteriology, and to which the Royal Agricul- 
tural Society has since made an annual grant. The number of 
similar specimens dealt with in the Laboratory in 1904 was 
654. In the great majority of these cases assistance is sought 
with a view to having the nature of the disease accurately 
determined, and it cannot be doubted that, since its establish- 
ment, the Laboratory has proved of great service to veterinary 
surgeons throughout the kingdom, and through them to stock 
owners. There is, however, another respect in which the 
Laboratory has proved useful ; it has made available for 
the practical instruction of veterinary students an amount of 
pathological material which could scarcely have been obtained 
in any other way, and which is of the greatest value in 
familiarising future veterinary practitioners with the appear- 
ance of the lesions of almost all the important diseases of farm 
stock. 
Glanders. 
The following Table shows the number of cases of this 
disease for each of the past six years : — 
Year 
No. of cases 
Year 
No. of cases 
1900 
1,858 
1903 
2,499 
1901 
2,370 
1904 
2,628 
1902 
2,010 
1905 
2,062 
It is satisfactory to find that the past year has been marked 
by some abatement in the prevalence of the disease ; but, as has 
frequently been pointed out in these Reports, no substantial 
