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THE RAYMOND RESEARCH LABORATORY.
During the year under report some up to-date electrical apparatus for
special experiments were purchased.
2. Pathological specimens, smears, dabs, etc., were received from the Civil
Veterinary Departments of Bengal, Bihar—Orissa, and Assam, Army Remount
Department and other sources which on examination showed among others the
causitive organisms of Anthrax, Black-quarters, Hæmorrhagic Septicæmia,
Tuberculosis, Piroplasmosis, Trypanosomosis, Filariasis, Strangles, Rabies,
Parasitic mange, etc. Autopsies wore made on carcases received from Calcutta
and Bengal Police, Zoological Garden, Calcutta Corporation, General Post
Office and private persons. The lessions were demonstrated to the senior students.
My senior assistant Mr. S. N. Mitra had to give expert evidence in many
cases. In the course of post-mortem examinations a collection of some
interesting parasites has been made which will be sent to Europe shortly for
identification.
3. The British Commission on Foot and Mouth Disease and Colonel
Sutherland, I.M.S., the Serologist, were supplied with a large amount of
material for their work. At the request of Dr. Percival Mackie, I.M.S., who
has been working under the Indian Research Fund on Kala-azar, a large number
of spleen smears of dogs was examined with a view to determine their infection
by Leishmaniasis.
4. I am glad to report that a cure was effected in a naturally contrac-
ted case of equine surra by following the method suggested by the Imperial
Bacteriologist. This is the first case of cure reported in Bengal.
5. As in the previous years, samples of bone meal were bacteriologi-
cally examined prior to their exportation to New Zealand.
6. A start has been made to determine the proportion of fat during the
milking period of different breeds of cattle in Bengal.
7 A Veterinary Assistant of Bihar was trained in the preparation of speci-
mens as required by the British Commission on Foot and Mouth Disease.
Three reserve Veterinary Assistants and one Inspector of Bengal were trained
in preparing smear specimens and in conducting post-mortem examinations.
8. During the year the following papers have been prepared by Mr. S. N.
Mitra, G.B.V.C., and Junior Hospital Surgeon Mr. H. C. Ganguli, G.B.V.C., under
my supervision:—
(i) A brief Resumé of our knowledge of Rabies (read at the Calcutta,
Medical Club).
(ii) A Resumé of our knowledge on the occurrence of Gnathostomum
Spinigerum in India and its relation to a similar parasite found
in man (Veterinary Journal, London).
(iii) Filaria Immitis in Calcutta (Bulletin de Societie de extoque pathologie
Paris).
(iv) The staining reaction of Anthrax Bacilli (read at the Medical Section
of the Asiatic Society of Bengal).
(v) Further note on a Gastrodisc from an Indian Zebu (Veterinary
Journal, London).
(vi) Pulmunary Tuberculosis in a Malayan Tapir (Journal of Comparative
Pathology and Therapeutics, London).
(vii) Strongylus Clathurtus (Veterinary Journal, London).
(viii) On a peculiar form of Pasteurella in an Indian Elephant (Journal of
Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics, London.)
(ix) Notes on Rinderpest and Foot and Mouth Disease in Bengali.
(x) A Hand-book on Care and Management of Cattle in Bengal in Bengali.
(xi) Filaria Immitis in Calcutta by Mr. H. C. Ganguli (Veterinary
Record, London, and Revue Veterinaire Paris).
(xii) Aneurism in a Himalayan Bear by Mr. H. C. Ganguli (Journal of
Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics, London).
A. SMITH, MAJOR,
Principal, Bengal Veterinary College.