This pioneering work is an attempt to provide an uptodate account of the laboratory techniques. Basical designed for students, research workers and teachers, at various universities, institutions and laboratories, the present work will enable the user to find his way through the large and often bewildering array of methods currently available. Volume wise organisation of work is Laboratory Animals; Breeding in Laboratory Animals; Birds in Laboratory; Instrumentation; Cell and Tissue Culture; Laboratory Culture of Animals; Microscopical Methods; Biochemical Techniques; Pathological Techniques; and Methods in Toxicology. For the Biochemists, microbiologist, immunologists, pharmacologist/pharmacist and all students in biologically related sciences, this encyclopaedia will prove of utmost use.