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REPORT OF THE IMPERIAL BACTERIOLOGICAL LABORATORY,
Engineer Mr. W. Pryde Watson. Granted leave from 26th Novem-
ber, 1923, to 23rd January, 1924, Mr. P. R. Ganguly, Assistant Engineer,
officiating during his absence.
Farm Manager. Captain A. J. Hearsey.
Veterinary Deputy Superintendent. Mr. J. D'Costa. Granted leave
on average pay for 4 months and 20 days with effect from 11th November,
1922, Khan Sahib Wazir Mohammed, Veterinary Inspector, officiating
during his absence.
Tours undertaken by the Staff. During the cold weather of both years
a considerable amount of touring was done by the staff in order to under-
take studies of animal disease in India under field conditions and pro-
pagate the influence of the laboratory. During the cold weather season
1922-23, the Director appeared to give evidence before the Inchcape
Committee upon Retrenchment in Expenditure at Delhi on 17th January,
1923, and thence proceeded to Lahore to consult the Principal, Punjab
Veterinary College, regarding arrangements for the Second Meeting
of Imperial Veterinary Officers in India. This Meeting, of which he was
Secretary, was held at Calcutta from the 22nd February to 2nd March,
1923. From the 1st to 11th February, 1923, he visited the Agricultural
Research Institute, Pusa, to attend the 5th Entomological Conference,
arrange for demonstrations to be given to officers under training at
Muktesar there, and supervise the inoculation against rinderpest of the
herd in charge of the Imperial Agriculturist. Further, in company
with the Agricultural Adviser to the Government of India (Mr. S. Milligan),
he proceeded to Bareilly to draw up a scheme for the development of the
Izatnagar site and thence to Delhi to present the matter with him to the
Government of India. The President of the Second Meeting of Veteri-
nary Officers in India (Col. G. K. Walker) was further consulted at Lahore
with regard to the final draft of the report of the meeting. Again, during
the cold weather 1923-24, nearly three months were spent altogether
away from headquarters, in which visits were paid to headquarters of
Government of India at Delhi, to Meerut, Saharanpur, Lucknow,
Allahabad, Jubbulpore, and Ahmednagar to consult officers of the Army
Veterinary Service in India with regard to disease subjects under in-
vestigation (notably contagious abortion in mares and cattle, strangles,
bursattee, kumri), to Patna, Lucknow, Agra, and Lahore to consult
officers of the Civil Veterinary Department (notably with regard to
instructional matters, kumri, surra, and infectious nasal granuloma of
cattle) and to Pusa to consult the Agricultural Adviser to the Government
of India (Mr. S. Milligan) with regard to administrative matters and
the Imperial Entomologist (Mr. T. Bambrigge Fletcher) with a view to
securing assistance in regard to the investigation of the insect transmis-
sion of certain diseases. Prolonged visits were paid to the Izatnagar
branch laboratory to superintend the work of serum manufacture.
Mr. Bennett, the Second Bacteriologist, was ordered to proceed to
Bareilly to supervise serum manufacture at Izatnagar in December, 1922,
and make there certain observations upon surra. He visited Lucknow