1895 THE MICROSCOPE. 12; 



THE MICROSCOPE. 



New Series, 1893. 



For Naturalists^ Physicians, arid Druggists, and Drsigved to Pof>iilarizt 



Microscopy. 



Published montJily. Price $ i .00 per annum. Subscriptions should end 

 with the year. The old series, consisting;- of /2 volumes {i8Si-rSg2). ended 

 with December. iSgi. Sets of the old series cannot he furnished. All 

 correspondence, exchanges, and books for notice should be addressed to the 

 Microscopical Publishifior Co., Washington, D. C, U. S. A. 



CHARLES W. SMILEY, A. M., EDITOR. 



EDITORIAL 



Dr. Thomas Taylor has, since 1871, been at the head of tlie 

 Division of Microscopy of the Agricultural Department. Grad- 

 ually divisions engaged in other work have managed to control 

 their own details, have acquired their own microscopical outfits, 

 and left little for Dr. Taylor to do. The money available for 

 his use has diminished, the amount last 3^ear being $7,500. 

 Secretary Morton not beiug forced by political sympathy with 

 Dr. Taylor to further maintain his work has felt free to do what 

 he regarded as for the general good, and says in explanation 

 that during the past year five other divisions have done more 

 microscopical work than this, which is doubtless true. We feel 

 sorry to see Dr. Taylor's work broken up but cannot blame 

 anj^one for the occurrence. 



This is one of the many indications that microscopy as such 

 is not to survive permanently. The use of the microscope like 

 that of other machines is to become subordinate It is a means 

 and not an end. Likewise microscopical societies will succumb 

 before the biological, medical, and other societies whose mem- 

 bers use the instrument as a means to certain ends. Strictly 

 microscopical periodicals will likewise die out. This is why for 

 six years past we have allied the Journal with biology and 

 medicine as being two of the principal fields in which the ap- 

 paratus may be profitably employed. 



