512 Journal of Applied Microscopy. 



Journal of ^^'^ contributors will be gratified 



to know that during a recent tour of the 

 Applied Microscopy. western states and the Pacific Coast 



we found the suggestions regarding 



L. B . ELLIOTT, EDITOR. apparatus and equipment for labora- 



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of the Bausch^& ^Lom^b Optical Co., ^^^^ published in actual use in almost 



^= every educational institution visited. 



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The development of biological work in higher educational institutions is well 

 indicated by the extensive plans being made in all the newer universities for 

 laboratories, and the great care which is being given to the detail of their equipment 

 in order to secure for the student the best conditions for work, and the most 

 suitable appliances. The wisdom of the University of California's expenditure 

 of §5(1,(100 for plans for her buildings and grounds is unquestioned. The time 

 when a laboratory can be installed in any sort of building, be conducted without 

 an adequate system of working and suitable appliances, intelligently handled, and 

 still be a success on account of the connection therewith of one or two brilliant 

 investigators, is rapidly passing, if not altogether gone by. 



Even the undergraduate is coming to see the difference in the results, and is 

 refusing to patronize the laboratory in which he is obliged to work under 

 unnecessary difficulties. 



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Continuing the papers on representative American laboratories, we have, 

 during the summer, visited a number of the leading universities of the West. 

 Descriptions, with illustrations made especially for the purpose, will appear in the 

 Journal during the coming year. These papers are designed to enable those 

 who have the planning and arrangement of new laboratories, or the re-arrange- 

 ment of old ones, to secure the benefit of what has been done in the more 

 advanced institutions. It is with this end in view that all connected with the 

 various laboratories visited have so willingly aided in the collection of the 



necessary data. 



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