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Journal of Applied Microscopy 



to the middle part of the third floor, the two ends of this floor being injured 

 only by smoke and water, and the lower floors only by water. Only the build- 

 ing was insured. The material, microscopes and movable furniture were not 

 insured. Over forty microscopes, each completely equipped with two-thirds, 

 one-eighth dry and one-twelfth oil immersion objectives, triple nose-piece, Abbe 

 condenser, and two oculars, were completely destroyed. The material for the 

 courses in Pathology, Bacteriology, Histology and Embryology were all burned, 

 besides much valuable material for research which had been collected with 

 much care and no little expense during the last ten years. 



While much was lost, much more was saved. Fortunately the most valuable 

 microscopes and apparatus were stored in the wings or ends of the main build- 

 ing, and these escaped except some blackening by the dense smoke. 



By Friday evening a temporary roof had been put over the burned part, and 

 by utilizing the museum space on the first floor for a laboratory, the work was 

 in full progress the next Monday morning. The professors in charge wish to 

 express their grateful appreciation to their colleagues all over the country for 

 their generous offers of assistance ; they are also grateful to the manufacturers 

 and optical companies which supplied them immediately with needed apparatus, 

 or repaired damaged instruments. S. H. Gage. 



Cornell University. 



A recent writer on Fat-necrosis finds alcohol with celloidin imbedding prefe- 

 rable to formaldehyde (4 per cent, solution), Miiller's fluid, Flemming's solution 

 or osmic acid as a fixative for necrotic adispose tissue and specimens of pan- 

 creas. Haematoxylin and eosin were found the most satisfactory for staining. 



