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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 <Se Lomb Optical Co., 



Rochester, N. Y. 



One Dollar per Year. To Foreign Countries, $1.25 

 per Year. 



Bntered at the Post-office, Rochester, N.T.,as second-class matter. 



DECEMBER, 1898. 



EDITORIAL. 



The completion of the first year of 

 publication of the Journal of Applied 

 Microscopy calls to mind the promises 

 which we made in our initial numbei-, 

 and the manner in which these promises 

 have been fulfilled during the year. When 

 the publication of the Journal by the 

 Publication Department of the Bausch & 

 Lomb Optical Co. was first suggested, it 

 was seriously questioned by many 

 whether it was possible for a commercial 

 institution to carry on the publication of 

 a journal dealing with same subjects in 

 which that institution was commerci- 

 ally interested without having the 

 matter published in the reading pages 

 tainted with partiality and restricted by 

 business considerations. We promised 

 our readers that such would not be the 

 case, and submit Volume 1 as evidence 

 of our good faith. The Journal is con- 

 ducted purely as a business enterprise, 

 is self-supporting, and appeals to the 

 scientific public on its own merits. 



We promised that the Journal should 

 be expanded and improved as rapidly as 

 the support given it would permit. We 

 will begin Volume 2 with a larger num- 

 ber of reading pages, and a number of 

 typographical improvements which will 

 make the Journal more readable and 

 present a better appearance. We prom- 

 ised that the Journal should be a record 

 of new apparatus and improvements in 

 apparatus as made in the laboratories in 

 actual work. The fulfillment of this 

 promise has of course depended largely 

 upon contributions made by those en- 

 gaged in laboratory work, and, while not 

 as exhaustive as we hope these 

 contributions will be during the 



coming year, we have neverthe- 

 less published over thirty original 

 papers dealing with this branch of 

 applied microscopy; and we believe we 

 are justified in saying that no other pub- 

 lication in the English language has ever 

 in one year brought together as many 

 papers upon microscopical technique or 

 as many accurate descriptions of 

 methods. The advantage of this concen- 

 tration of information bearing upon lab- 

 oratory work can best be appreciated by 

 those who have heretofore been obliged 

 to hunt through the files of society and 

 institution publications and of other jour- 

 nals mainly devoted to other subjects 

 for the desired information. It is 

 also a fact that the existence of a suit- 

 able medium for the publication of prac- 

 tical papers has led many to write the 

 results of their experience who would 

 otherwise not have done so, and science 

 is thereby to that extent the gainer. 



The department of reviews and ab- 

 stracts of microscopical literature pub- 

 lished in various languages is now 

 well established, and the department 

 of Current Botanical Literature, con- 

 ducted by Mr. C. J. Chamberlain of the 

 University of Chicago, and of Animal 

 Biology, by Miss Agnes M. Claypole of 

 Cornell University, speak for themselves. 

 We will soon have a similar department 

 devoted to bacteriological literature, and 

 in addition a department for the publi- 

 cation of abstracts not included in either 

 of these three departments, so that dur- 

 ing the coming year we shall cover the 

 field of literature on microscopical 

 subjects fairly well. Although a. 

 monthly publication cannot lay claim 

 to much value as a news bearer, yet we 

 have received many favorable comments 

 upon the maintaining of the depart- 

 ment of News and Notes in the Journal, 

 and it will continue. 



During the past year the Journal has 

 made its way into every state and terri- 

 tory in the Union, and into almost ever^" 

 country in the world in which scientific 

 work is done, the result being that its 

 present circulation is 15,000 copies per 

 month. Such being the case, we are able 

 to offer our contributors during the com- 

 ing year the advantage of placing their 

 work before a very large audience of 

 representative scientific men and insti- 

 tutions. As publishers we have done our 

 part in establishing a journal for micro- 

 scopical science, and in extending our 

 thanks to those who have co-operated 

 during the past year in making it a rep- 

 resentative American publication, we 

 trust that during the coming year we 

 may be still further aided by all whose 

 work lies within the field covered by the 

 Journal in making it still more repre- 

 sentative and still more successful. 



