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62 are in charge, the books are catalogued by the card system, and recent additions have been made to it by buying Professor Schaudinn's books. The library subscribes to seventy-seven periodicals, and exchanges Transactions with many institutions; the library expenses amount to about £250 a year. The laboratory, built in 1906, is 58 ft. long by 19 ft. wide, with six large windows, and is fitted with gas, water, and electric light for twenty-four students.

The museum is arranged round the sides of the laboratory, and a good epidiascope exists. On the same floor there is a chemical laboratory of two rooms, another room for experimental operations on animals, without legal restrictions, and some smaller laboratories. On the second floor is the protozoology laboratory consisting of three rooms for five workers, a tropical room kept at a temperature varying between 77 deg. and 86 deg. Fahr., and a relative humidity from 60 to 70 per cent. This serves for the breeding and development of mosquitoes, flies, ticks, snakes, etc. The ticks I saw were kept between two layers of tripod tables, enclosed in glass jars, with lids of wire gauze weighted with lead, and enclosed in tins of double saucers, containing petroleum or vaseline.

A museum of tropical hygiene is in course of arrangement, but all that was shown to us was a model of a mosquito-protected bed. There is a club-room for students, but there are no residential chambers for them in the building.

In the basement there is a room for micro-photography and a dark room with red walls, an automatic washing-tray, and an electric ventilator for drying plates.

On the ground floor of the hospital there are two wards, each of fourteen beds, one of which is supposed to be reserved for coloured patients, but at the time of my visit there were several Europeans suffering from typhoid fever in the native ward. Each typhoid patient was surrounded