Calendar: 1951-1952 Page 389

ANNUAL REPORT xxxiii Departmental Notes Full use was made of the laboratory and garden facilities at Dane- hurst 1' and the Department's major difficulties are now lack of space both at Danehurst and in the Strand The active development of teaching and research in the fields of physiology bacteriology and genetics requires far more space than had been formerly regarded as necessary for the department Research continued on tropisms and growth hormones and on inter- relation of metabolism and secretion In the bacteriological field research was in progress on the ecology and nitrogen fixation by soil bacteria and yeasts Papers were read before the Society for Experimental Biology by Professor Bennet-Clark and Mr Tambiah on Chromatographic Separation and Estimation of Growth Hormones and by Mr Myers on Water Permeability of Unplasmolysed Tissues DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY Number of Students Sc Special β Sc General 21 Ancillary Zoology 12 First Medical 55 Ancillary Biology 22 Postgraduate Total 118 Results of Examinations Sc Special 2nd Class Honours Sc General 2nd Class Honours Two-year Ancillary Zoology Pass One-year Ancillary Zoology Pass '4 Ancillary Biology Pass 22 First Pass 50 Sole Sc General results apply to Zoology only