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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



plates of barley sections, wheat and 

 pollen with details of growing, treating 

 staining complete and the smuts. 



It must be seen to appreciate the 

 value and help such a journal is to any 

 worker. Unfortunately the title is apt 

 to cause confusion with the little jour- 

 nal of the Postal Club called "Journal 

 of Micrology," of which a notice has 

 been made. The quarterly is produced 

 from the micro dealers, Flatters, Mil- 

 borne & McKechnie, Limited, of 16 

 Church Road, Longsight, Manchester, 

 England, and Mr. Flatters's long con- 

 nection as a teacher in botany, science 

 and textiles in the Technical School 

 and with the Microscopical Society 

 renders it certain that every effort to 

 make the subjects authentic, the slides 

 issued or gross material of the subjects 

 correct and the excellence of the work 

 will be assured to all subscribers. 



Journal of Parasitology. 



Professor Henry If Ward, of the 

 American Microscopical Society, now- 

 head of the Department of Zoology in 

 the State University of Illinois ( Ur- 

 bana) has published the first and second 

 parts of "The Journal of Parisitologv,'" 

 a quarterly devoted to medical zoology. 

 This takes in notes on animal parasites, 

 whether protozoa, vermes or arthropoda, 

 concise technical notes of interest to 

 parasitologists, and brief reviews of 

 monographs and books, the morphology, 

 life history or biology of zooparasites. 

 The urgent need for a journal is well 

 seen in the growing importance of the 

 subject from a medical, veterinary, agri- 

 cultural and financial standpoint as well 

 as the economical and scientific, and we 

 hope the journal will speedily receive the 

 support it needs. The subscription price 

 is two dollars a year, and a large amount 

 of valuable material on hand insures full 

 numbers. 



The Trustees are 11. U. Hills, M. E., Dr. 

 I. 1. W. Golden, W. G. King, Albert Mc- 

 Calla, Ph. D., F. R. M. S., and Dr. S. S. 

 Graves. 



Paintings of Arkansas Wild Flowers. 



Miss Orrie Riley, 626 Congress Ave., 

 Pacific Grove, California, has made 

 many paintings of Arkansas wild 

 flowers and offers some for sale, mak- 

 ing the following enthusiastic state- 

 ment : 



"They certainly are intensely in- 

 teresting' to any one caring anything 

 for our native wild flowers. I will state 

 here without fear of contradiction that 

 there is not another place in the whole 

 world that contains such a variety or as 

 beautiful wild flowers as certain places 

 in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. 

 I grew up in the mountains there and 

 it was my ambition to paint all the 

 most beautiful flowers that grew wild 

 in the state. I had over forty paintings 

 containing some forty-eight or fifty 

 varieties, but have sold a few* at a time 

 till I have only fifteen left. These fif- 

 teen I would like to sell in one collec- 

 tion. It is my intention to return to 

 Arkansas and make a photograph col- 

 lection of the wild flowers in their 

 native haunts. I will need more funds 

 to defray the expenses of the trip and 

 for that reason would like to dispose 

 of the balance of my wdld flower paint- 

 ings this spring." 



List of New Officers- 



Idie new officers of the State Micro- 

 scopical Society of Illinois are Francis T. 

 Harmon (expert photomicrographer). 

 President : Jeremiah A. Hynds. First 

 Vice-President; Harold S. Skelton (of 

 The Bausch & Lomb Optical Company), 

 Second Vice-President ; Frank I. Pack- 

 ard, Treasurer; H. F. Fuller, M. A., F. 

 S. Sc, Curator, and V. A. Latham, Cor- 

 responding and Recording Secretary. 



ddie little amphipod Crustacean, Eu- 

 crangonyx gracilis, abundant both in 

 surface and in underground streams 

 in various parts of the United States, 

 has fallen under observation by the 

 Carnegie Station for Experimental 

 Evolution. 



It transpires from careful testing by 

 the best modern devices that those in- 

 dividuals who happen to be living in 

 caves, and have almost no body pig- 

 ment except in the eyes, are slightly 

 less sensitive to light than the similar 

 individuals which live in the open 

 streams. On the other hand, they 

 prove by way of compensation to be 

 slightly more sensitive to touch. 



Here, then, is the first faint begin- 

 nings of the familiar difference between 

 the permanently blind cave dw-elling 

 species of crustaceans and their normal 

 relatives which live outside. 



