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Journal of Applied Microscopy. 



Journal of 

 Applied Microscopy. 



Issued Monthly from the Publication Department 



of the Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., 



Rochester, N. Y. 



L. B. ELLIOTT, Editor. 



Address all communications to 

 Publication Department, 



BAUSCH <& LOMB OPTICAL CO., 



Rochester, N. Y. 



ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. 

 To Foreign Countries - - $L25 Per Year. 



Entered at the Post-o£ice, Rochester, N. F., as second-class matter. 



FEBRUARY, 1898. 



EDITORIAL. 



Tt has been suggested that a space be 

 devoted to the asking and answering of 

 questions, thus affording a means of 

 communication between workers in the 

 same or different fields who desire infor- 

 mation which can best be obtained from 

 the •experience of others. It is thought 

 that such a department would be the 

 means of 'bringing up for discussion 

 many subjects of general interest and 

 of eliciting the most recent results of 

 investigation. 



We will, therefore, under the heading 

 " Notes and Queries," print inquiries sent 

 for that purpose. The inquiries will not 

 be signed and all replies received will be 

 transmitted privately to the inquirer. 

 Such of the replies as are of sufficient 

 interest will be printed in the "Notes and 

 Queries" over the signature of the writer 

 and all replies will be deemed for publi- 

 cation unless otherwise specified. Owing 

 to our limited space we shall be guided 

 by the relative importance of the sub- 

 jects proposed in determining the 

 sequence of publication. The inquiry 

 appearing this month is a good example 

 of a profitable kind of question to ask. 

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Several of our correspondents have 

 suggested the desirability of larger type 

 and a single column to the page in place 

 of that adopted for the Journal. We 

 agree that either or both, and especially 

 both, would be improvements, and we 

 hope to have them in time. Meanwhile 

 we venture the explanation that our pres- 

 ent choice is based on the desire to 

 supply an acceptable quantity of first- 

 class matter at a popular price. Like 

 many another, we should have been glad 



to know beforehand the value which pub- 

 lic opinion would set upon our under- 

 taking, but not knowing, thought best to 

 avoid as much as possible the financial 

 pitfalls which have engulfed so many 

 promising scientific publications. The 

 abundance with which subscriptions have 

 flowed in upon us during the past two 

 weeks and the many letters of encourage- 

 ment received warrants the belief that a 

 continuance of such support will enable 

 us to make Vol. 2 all that can be desired 

 both as to typography and matter. 



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Dr. G. Carl Huber, medical department. 

 University of Michigan, has kindly con- 

 sented to prepare a series of articles for 

 the Journal, giving quick and accurate 

 methods for making histological prepara- 

 tions and for blood staining. These 

 articles are intended to cover the opera- 

 tions which the practicing physician will 

 require in daily work, and the intention 

 is to make them so simple that they will 

 be readily understood, whether the 

 reader is an advanced microscopist or 

 not. We feel sure that this series will be 

 very helpful to physicians and others 

 interested in similar work and that they 

 will therefore be of interest to a large 

 number of our readers. 



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Our January edition was 15,000 copies, 

 reaching practically every college and 

 university laboratory in the world and 

 every institution in which biological work 

 is done in the United States. We there- 

 fore hope to secure for the writings of 

 our American authors a wide recognition, 

 and to obviate the necessity of sending 

 their work abroad for publication. The 

 edition for February is 16,000. 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



This space is intended for inquiries regarding 

 subjects not otherwise touched upon. Answers to 

 inquiries will be published over the signature of 

 the writer. 



"It is desired to form a permanent col- 

 lection of microscopic preparations, chief- 

 ly serial sections of embryos. It is de- 

 sired to gain information from the ex- 

 perience of others as to what stains are 

 the least affected 'by the lapse of years." 



A trial of typhoid vaccine is being made 

 on a large scale at Maddstone, England. 

 One of the severest epidemics of typhoid 

 ever known is now prevailing there. 

 The experimenits are under the direc- 

 tion of the pathological laboratory of the 

 state army school at Netly. Professor 

 Wright and Surgeon-major Temple have 

 so improved the method, it is said, that 

 they are able to obtain Widal's reaction 

 from the blood of the vaccinated, which 

 is taken as a proof of immunization. 



