162 JOURNAL OF THE [June, 



MISCELLANEA. 



The American Society of Microscopists. — Prof. H. L. 

 Smith, President of the American Society of Microscopists, 

 announces that the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society will 

 be held at Cleveland, O., beginning on Tuesday, August iSth, 

 1885, and lasting four days. He urges members to bring to the 

 meeting the choice products of the past year's investigations. 

 He requests that titles and abstracts of papers be sent as soon 

 as practicable to the Secretary, Prof. D. S. Kellicott, Ph.D., 119 

 Fourteenth-street, Buffalo, N. Y., and that all persons who 

 intend to be present, or to join the Society, inform him or the 

 local committee at Cleveland of their intention. " The value of 

 the organization," continues Prof. Smith, "has been established, 

 and we are full of hopeful expectation that all the working 

 microscopists of the country will join its membership and make 

 it the centre of active microscopical investigation and the means 

 of mutual stimulus to better and higher scientific work. * * The 

 arrangements made by the local committees are such as to 

 ensure most agreeable and interesting sessions, with the most 

 ample facilities for those who present papers to illustrate them 

 by projection apparatus and otherwise. * * Each year shows 

 more plainly the importance of having the papers which may be 

 read, so prepared that they may be left with the Secretary at 

 the close of the meeting, and that the publication of the Pro- 

 ceedings shall not be delayed by revisions of manuscript or for 

 the preparation of drawings. * * The session for illustration of 

 practical work in preparing and mounting objects, which proved 

 so fascinating and useful a feature of the Chicago and Roches- 

 ter meetings, will be still more varied and instructive than before. 

 Mr. C. M. Vorce, Cleveland, has charge of the preparations for 

 the working session." 



Leucophrys emarginata. — Dr. Alfred C. Stokes's illustra- 

 ted article descriptive of a new species of infusorian which he 

 names Leucophrys einargi/iata furnishes an example of careful 

 observation. A feature of great interest in the article is the 

 discussion of the bearing of the structure and habits of this in- 

 fusorian on Brandt's doctrine of reciprocal parasitism. The 

 author's views on this point are clearly presented, and they 

 appear just. 



