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represented at letter c, we certainly have not been so fortunate 

 as to discover. Appended to the foregoing Paper, we find 

 a report, by Dr. Jenner, on the Microscopical Appearances of 

 the Osteoid Deposits in the Lungs, but were it not for the 

 heading, we might have some difficulty in guessing to what 

 the report in question referred, as there is nothing in it 

 bearing upon the subject of osteoid structures. 



We must here close our notice of individual papers, which 

 has already occupied a larger space than we originally in- 

 tended. At the same time, it is fair to state that criticisms, 

 such as we have made upon those above noticed, are not ap- 

 plicable to others. Indeed, taken as a whole, the sixth volume 

 of the Transactions of the Pathological Society is probably 

 the best and most valuable that has been issued since its com- 

 mencement. Most of the communications are of much in- 

 terest ; many are decidedly original, and to the majority we 

 can accord our unqualified approbation. We would now 

 venture to suggest to the future contributors of the Patholo- 

 gical Society, a few considerations which have occurred to us. 



In the first place, we would urge the propriety of carrying 

 out the system of reports to a greater extent. As we have 

 before said, it gives safety, and consequently loeight, to pub- 

 lished statements ; and care should always be taken to select 

 the riaht referee for the rigid specimen, about which, we should 

 presume, there cannot be much difficulty. Again, the method 

 of illustrating papers requires careful supervision. Illustra- 

 tions of pathological histology in one publication should, we 

 think, as far as jwssible, be rendered upon a fixed scale — say 

 by magnifying powers of hundreds or parts of hundreds — 50, 

 100, 200, 400 diameters, and so on. If such a method were 

 adopted, it would give an intelligible relationship between 

 different Plates and figures, and a unity, not less agreeable than 

 useful, to the entire volume. One more suggestion : we would 

 recommend gentlemen who cannot draw from the microscope, 

 not to attempt it. Few things are more difficult than to ren- 

 der well upon paper, objects that are seen through the micro- 

 scope ; and it would be far better for observers to place their 

 specimens at once in the hands of Mr. Tuffen West, who il- 

 lustrates the Pathological Transactions, than to furnish him 

 only with ill-executed and incorrect representations of their 

 own. p Mr. Tuffen West combines in himself the accomplish- 

 ments of a good microscopist, and an artist of the nicest and 

 most accurate touch ; and by his single exertions, in this 

 Journal and in the Transactions of the Pathological Society, 

 he has created a new era in the illustrations of normal and ab- 

 normal histology. 



