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leading part in the administration of the laboratory during my absence
on tour in the cold weather season 1923-24. The multifarious tasks
entrusted to Mr. W. Pryde Watson have been dwelt upon earlier in the
report, and many important schemes of research would have been im-
possible of execution without his ingenuity. Veterinary Inspectors
P. C. Banerji and G. R. Viswanathan rendered highly intelligent assis-
tance to the officers in charge of the research schemes of the laboratory-

      The services of Mr. M. J. Brett in charge of outside duties as Veteri.
nary Officer and his genial manner proved to be an asset of inestimable
value to the institution.

      During the period under report the laboratory was visited by, among
other visitors, (i) Sir William Edwards, Director General, Indian Medical
Service, on 8th June 1922. (ii) Mr. S. Milligan, Agricultural Adviser
to the Government of India, on 11th March 1923. (iii) Colonel W. Pallin,
Assistant Director, Veterinary Services, Eastern Command, on 9th
June 1922. (iv) Mr. M. S. D. (now Sir Montagu) Butler, Secretary to
the Government of India, Department of Education, Health and Lands,
on 25th October, 1923. (v) Colonel J. W. D. Megaw, I.M.S., Principal
of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, on 22nd April, 1923. (vi)
The Deputy Commissioner, Naini Tal, on 18th October, 1923. (vii)
Sir Arnold Theiler, K.C.M.G., Director of Veterinary Education and
Research, Union of South Africa, on 7th February, 1924. (viii) M.
Schem, Veterinary Service, French Indo-China, on 27th January, 1924.

      A great deal of invaluable information and advice was obtained from
these distinguished gentlemen in the course of their visits.

                                     APPENDIX I-A.

Table showing a summary of results of inoculations in the field reported
       from the use of different products issued from the Imperial Bacterio-
       logical Laboratory, Muktesar, during the year 1922-23.