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separate heating system and is lighted by electricity. Near the stable is a rabbit burrow with appropriate grounds enclosed by a fence. The custodian, who is at the same time chief clerk, lives in a detached house (see Fig. 3). This arrangement was thought preferable to providing living quarters in the main building.
The grounds attached to the laboratory have an area of 1.3 hectares and include a clover field, a field for cultivating vegetables for small animals, and a pasture for the large ones which are kept in good hygienic condition. Inside the grounds is a pond in which fish can live throughout the winter, a part of it being reserved for frogs. Thus the laboratory has a constant supply of aquatic flora and fauna in natural condition.
TEACHING METHODS AND FACILITIES
To prevent loss of time in searching for apparatus and material or getting them from other rooms every room is well provided with all the ordinary supplies and appliances, including the equipment necessary for simple vivisection and the preparation of microscopical slides. Filter paper of different sizes and degrees of hardness is kept in the drawers of the work table in flat
round boxes made of zinc fastened to the bottom of the drawer. These boxes are fitted with lids to keep the filters in place and clean.
The cinematographic facilities, the instrument shop, the regulated temperature rooms and the extensive grounds which in various ways are made to contribute to the needs of the Institute have already been mentioned.
The card catalogue of the two libraries embodies a principle that has been applied to all objects on the premises. This system it is believed contributes a great deal to the orderliness and neatness of all the rooms. The cupboards and every shelf in them are provided with white enamelled plates bearing black letters or numbers which give a fixed place to all objects. Everything, if possible, bears the number of its room, the letter of its cupboard, the number of its shelf, and the place number on this shelf. When anything is taken from its place a printed card is substituted on which is recorded the borrower’s name and the room to which it has been removed. When the object is returned a record is made op the card, which is then put in a box kept for this purpose.
Each room has an inventory book in which are entered alphabetically the contents of the room
								
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Fig. 7.—Lecture Room