242 Journal of Applied Microscopy. 



1-1 -.f It was our intention originally to 



issue the Journal Microscopical Di- 



Applied Microscopy. rectory about the first of the year 1899, 



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L. B. ELLIOTT, EDITOR. been begun somewhat later than should 



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of the Bausch & Lomb Optical Co.. so few organizations throughout the 



' country to aid in the work, we deem it 



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Mr. H. H. Waite, of the Bacteriological department, University of Michi- 

 gan, will take charge, beginning with the March number, of a department of 

 Current Bacteriological Literature, to be conducted along the same lines as the 

 departments now devoted to botany and animal biology. 



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The publication in each issue of the Journal of " A Partial List of the 

 Contributors " does not mean that these writers have engaged to supply all of 

 the material to be published, but that they have signified their willingness to aid 

 in maintaining a journal for applied microscopy, to make special efforts in 

 order that it may be helpful to its readers. The usefulness of the Journal 

 depends largely upon bringing together in accessible form the results of the 

 experience of a majority of the workers in every field in which the microscope 

 is required. The time spent in putting on paper the results of investigation and 

 experience is not only repaid in aiding many less favored in that particular line 

 of work, but in adding to the permanent records of science, the accumulation of 

 which will ultimate result in the simplification and perfection of microscopical 

 technique. The Journal is intended for all who use the microscope, and its 

 development in any given direction is due largely to the demand for information 

 on that particular subject. We depend largely upon the expressions of our 

 readers to guide us, and criticisms and suggestions, as well as contributions, are 

 welcomed and will receive careful attention. 



