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REPORT OF THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE OF VETERINARY RESEARCH,
PART II.
SPECIAL
I. Staff of Imperial and Gazetted Officers.
Director. Mr. J. T. Edwards.
First Veterinary Research Officer. Held by Mr. S. C. J. Bennett until he resigned his
appointment, at the termination of his three years' probationary period, on the 27th
February 1925 ; subsequently, Mr. J. R. Haddow (formerly, Veterinary Officer) has
fulfilled the duties of the post.
Second Veterinary Research Officer (officiating). Mr. M. B. Menon.
Third Veterinary Research Officer. Held by Mr. Haddow, who then as senior sub-
stantive research officer filled the post vacated by Mr. Bennett. Vacant from 25th Feb-
ruary.
Pathologist. Mr. H. Cooper.
Officer deputed by Research Fund Association for Tuberculosis, Enquiry. Dr. M. B.
Soparkar.
First Laboratory Assistant (Upper Grade). Mr. D. Keiller.
Second Laboratory Assistant (Upper Grade). Mr. G. P. Goffi.
Third Laboratory Assistant (Upper Grade). Mr. W. Mobbs,
Engineer. Mr. W. Pryde Watson.
Farm Manager. Captain A. J. Hearsey. Granted leave on average pay for two
months with effect from 13th January 1925 ; Mr. Narain Singh Thapa, Farm Overseer,
officiated during his absence.
Veterinary Deputy Superintendent Mr. J. D'Costa. Granted leave from 1st Decem-
ber 1924 to 6th April 1925 ; Mr. Abdul Ghani, Senior Veterinary Inspector, officiated
during his absence.
Tours undertaken by Staff. From 28th October 1924 to 16th November 1924, the
Director undertook a tour which embraced visits, (i) to the American Presbyterian
Mission Agricultural Farm, Allahabad, to arrange for the immunization of the whole
of the herd, including some valuable imported American pedigree bulls, against rinder-
pest ; (ii) to Ahmednagar, to advise the Veterinary Officer in charge of the Remount
Depôt ; (iii) to Poona, to consult Deputy Assistant Director, Veterinary Services, Poona
District, in regard to the outcome of the new, postal, method of transporting virulent
blood for active immunization against rinderpest, first tried as a field procedure on the
herd of Government Military Dairy, Kirkee, and also in regard to the progress of eradi-
cation measures against Johne's disease, based upon the application of the avian tuber-
culin test ; the Principal of the Poona Agricultural College was consulted, particularly
to devise a scheme of demonstrations for an officer under training selected for promotion
to Imperial grade with the material available at the College ; (iv) to Bombay, to consult
the Director, Bombay Bacteriological Laboratory, Parel, in regard to possible concerted
technical action, notably upon the group of diseases known as the " pasteurelloses,"
and arrange for practical demonstrations for the above officer under training ; and (v)
to Lucknow, to consult Royal Army Veterinary Corps officers in charge of the Govern-
ment Military Dairy, in regard to measures for the control of bovine contagious abor-
tion. On the 10th January 1925, he proceeded to the 12th Meeting of the Indian Science
Congress at Benares, to present a number of papers (24) dealing with veterinary subjects
before the Agricultural Section, and expose the veterinary standpoint at the special
joint meeting of the Medical and Agricultural Sections, in which it was resolved that
technical veterinary papers should be presented in future before the Medical Section
of the Congress. At the Meeting he was assisted by Mr. S. K. Sen, B.A., B.Sc., Assist-
ant to the Imperial Entomologist, who had collaborated with him in preparing the papers
for presentation. From Benares, he proceeded to Pusa, to consult the Agricultural
Adviser to the Government of India with regard to a number of administrative projects,
and thence to Delhi, to discuss further with the Secretary to Government of India, De-
partment of Education, Health, and Lands, problems of veterinary interest.
The Pathologist (Mr. Hugh Cooper) was directed to undertake a prolonged cold weather
tour in Assam, from 15th October 1924 to 28th March 1925, to investigate the prevalence