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The gradual decline of popular interest in the microscope is in striking 

 contrast with the increase in its use by technicists in many branches of science 

 and industry. It has been variously attributed to the phenomenal increase in 

 the use of the camera and bicycle, but while these may have afifected the younger 

 element to a certain extent, the man of middle age and older is not, as a rule, a 

 camerist or cyclist, and is not likely to be diverted from so interesting and withal 

 profitable and congenial a pursuit as microscopy by anything so totally different. 



The cause must lie deeper, and our observation leads to the beUef that a lack 

 of sympathy between the advanced men of science and their humble foUow-ers 

 has been largely instrumental in producing the present indifference. 



The increase in the number, convenience, and mechanical excellence of 

 microscopical appliances, and the constant decrease in tjieir cost, should have 

 had the same stimulating effect upon microscopical work as has the production 

 of suitable apparatus on photography. 



Is it not the lack of suitable teachers ? Teachers whose attainments in 

 science are beyond question, investigators whose researches place th^m in the 

 front rank, and yet whose interest in the education of the public to an apprecia- 

 tion of the basic principles of the sciences whose exponents they are, and of the 

 value of scientific observation as a means of broadening and bettering the mental 

 status, is equal to their interest in the solution of intricate biological problems. 



There is an abundance of treatises by capable writers, but they take up the 

 subjects where books for the beginner should end. 



Books which begin at the beginning and which deal with facts in a perfectly 

 scientific, accurate manner, and yet with the utmost simplicity, which will aid 

 the beginner without confusing, which will develop his powers of observation 

 without detracting from the thing itself, and which will tell him the what, where, 

 and how of microscopical work and the microscopical world, will be appreciated 

 by the thinking laity. The labors of the specialist are fruitless if they do not 

 contribute something which is useful to the great masses outside his chosen circle. 



