Field notes, v1753
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Stotzner, R. 1963 50 Asahi Trip New Delhi Jan. 15 Wall exhibit cases contained rather complete stuffed animals with dramatic backgrounds - mongoose and cobra, hawk feeding on a bird, other stuffed birds. A wall case contained many small jars of preserved animals in spirits. I was told these were species from India, illustrative of taxonomic types. Obviously the approach here is the old morphology - Taxonomy one and there appears to be little of modern biology. The chemistry lab was smaller, perhaps 25 x 25', also poorly lighted (no lights were on). The students used small spirit lamps for heating substances. Numerous dust-covered bottles with old-looking labels stood on the center piece that ran the length of the work table. The tables faced me another and were separated by this central partition except where sinks were located. In none of the labs visited were any black boards seen except for one small one in the physics lab. The chemistry students - boys I perhaps 14-15yrs. were engaged in qualitative analysis and each had been given an unknown substance to identify. In the physics lab, the students were studying electrical conductivity of