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bottle after pouring a liquid. All his instruments are 

 kept in a closet, out of the dust and in the most perfect 

 order; if he needs one of them he finds it at hand, 

 cleaned and ready to use. 



All his slides, classified and catalogued, are kept in a 

 splendid cabinet. Visitors are surprised when they 

 learn that in that fine piece of furniture thousands 

 of slides are contained, among which many have a 

 value from ten to twenty dollars apiece. 



Working as he does there is no need of a laborato- 

 ry ; a corner of the table of the dining-room is suffi- 

 cient. 



Mr. Clifford receives the best microscopical papers 

 published in French, English and German. One depart- 

 ment of his library is especially reserved for scientific 

 works. Many of these books are the latest publications, 

 many old and rare editions are to be found there also. 



The great desire of all the young beginners, readers 

 of this periodical, ought to be to own one day as he does 

 a fine set of instruments, a beautiful and numerous coll- 

 ection of slides and a valuable library. 



Our friend has been in Paris over twenty years be- 

 ing originally from England. He is a very warm per- 

 sonal friend of the Editor of this periodical who has 

 visited him several times. Of course, he has complete 

 files of the American microscopical periodicals. 



The Value of the Microscope. — The value of a micros- 

 cope to a druggist is shown by the following incident : A lady 

 had procured from the stores pepsin much cheaper than she 

 had been paying her family chemist, and complained of the 

 surcharge. He obtained a specimen ol the medicine, and was 

 soon able to demonstrate to the customer by the microscope 

 that she had paid too much for her specimen, for it was nearly 

 all starch. She does not go to the stores for pepsin now. — Che- 

 mist and Druggist. 



