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(g) The training of 47 bullock drivers as dressers by the Native
Teaching Staff.
(h) Serving on the Committee to advise Government as to the
adoption of measures for the protection of Bombay from Rinderpest.
TEACHING STAFF.
29. Mr. M. H. Sowerby, I.C.V.D., acted as Principal up to 3rd June
and the late Mr. W. A. Broad, I.C.V.D., as Assistant Principal. On my
return from leave on the 4th idem I took over the charge of the office of
Principal, when Mr. Sowerby reverted to the appointment of Acting Assistant
Principal, and the late Mr. Broad, attached for training, was transferred to
Poona to do duty under the Superintendent, Civil Veterinary Department,
Bombay Presidency. Mr. N. D. Dhakmarwala, G.B.V.C, Professor of Bovine
Pathology, was on privilege leave for one month from the 7th January, when
Assistant Professor V. E. Vakharia, G.B.V.C., acted for him as Professor of
Bovine Pathology and Mr. P. DeSouza, G.B.V.C., from the Glanders and
Farcy Department, Bombay, acted as Assistant Professor of Chemistry. While
doing duty under the Superintendent, Civil Veterinary Department, Mr. Broad,
a most promising officer of the Department, died at Poona. The occurrence of
this sad event is deeply regretted by the College staff and students, by whom he
was much esteemed.
MUSEUM.
80. Some Museum show cases have been obtained in which to place
Anatomical Models purchased during the last year and enlargements of
photographs with measurements and descriptions of the different breeds of the
cattle of the Presidency, taken by Major Joslen when he was Superintendent,
Civil Veterinary Department, Bombay Presidency, have been made and framed.
The Museum is as yet comparatively small and incomplete in natural specimens.
It is mainly by the preservation of Anatomical and other specimens, both
normal and abnormal, that are obtainable from the Hospital that a collection for
the Museum is built up and, therefore, the formation of a Museum requires time.
Much has been left undone in this direction in the past, but attention will be
paid to the matter in future.
LIBRARY.
31. Some additions of books have been made to the Library and a special
grant of Rs. 550 for the purchase of missing numbers of Journals from England
and their binding was sanctioned (Government Resolution, Educational Depart-
ment, No. 366, dated the 19th February 1907.) But as the orders of Govern-
ment were received too late to incur this outlay during the year we have to
apply as far hence as next September for the transfer of the grant to the next
year. Government has been pleased to furnish the Library with District
Gazetteers and District Maps of the Presidency for reference purposes. The
Library, like the Museum, is very incomplete and will require attention.
Without a Library for reference we should be working in the dark and probably
expend much labour in going over unnecessary ground. The teaching also
would not be up to date.
PATHO-BACTERIOLOGICAL LABROTORY.
32. The Patho-Bacteriological Laboratory has been put in working order
for diagnostic purposes and some of the most urgent requirements for this
purpose were obtained locally. A few requisites were received from England
at the close of the year and some more, for which a special allotment has
been sanctioned by Government (Government Resolution, Educational Depart-
ment, No. 339, dated the 15th February 1907), are to be indented for during the
ensuing year. An increase in the contingent grant has been applied for for the
purpose of procuring annual Bacteriological requisites (vide correspondence
ending with this office letter No. 216, dated the 13th February 1907). A bench
for microscopical work has been erected in the Laboratory with an extension of
the water and gas supply and glass has been put into the doors and windows in
place of wooden Venetians, which let in dust, wind and rain.
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