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The Cleveland Convention. — The sessions of the Ameri- 

 can Society of Microscopists at its Eighth Annual Meeting were 

 fruitful of instruction, stimulus, and delight. The Addresses, 

 the Papers, the illustrations of work and of methods at the 

 Working Session, and the Soiree, at which fully fifteen hundred 

 persons viewed the fine selection of objects on exhibition under 

 more than one hundred and fifty microscopes, must have made 

 upon even the casual observer an ineffaceable impression of the 

 precision with which scientific research is now conducted. The 

 excellence of the Report of its Proceedings, great as it will be 

 found to be, will be incompetent to work out in the mind of one 

 not present at the Convention the more subtle and enduring 

 education which would have sprung from attendance in person. 



