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THE MICROSCOPE. 



New Series, 1893. 



Vof Naturalists^ Physicians., and Druggists, and Designed to Popularize 



Microscopy. 



Published monthly. Price $i.oo per annum. Subscriptions should end 

 with the year. The old series, consisting of 12 volumes {i88i-i8g3), ended 

 ■with December, iSgi Sets of the old series cannot be furnished. All 

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

 Microscopical Publishing Co., Washington, D. C.,'U. S. A. 



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



EDITORIAL. 



Pittsburg for 1896. — The Executive C*)mmittee of the 

 American Microscopical Society has accepted the very kind in- 

 vitation of the Iron City Microscopical Club, to meet in the 

 City of Pittsburg, Pa., for the next annual meeting of the Society. 

 We shall announce the exact date in next menth's issue. 



Physicians' Visiting List for 1896.— We have just re- 

 ceived from I. Blakiston, Son & Co., Pliiladelphia, the Physi- 

 cians' Visiting List for 1896. This new edition presents several 

 improvements. More space has been allowed for writting the 

 names and to the "Memoronda Page;" a column has been 

 added for the "Amount" of the weekly visits and a column for 

 the "Ledger Page." 



J. Tempere, 168, Rue Saint Antoine, Paris, has just 

 issued a new Catalogue of microscopical })reparations in all the 

 branches of Natural History. That catalogue forms a book of 

 seventy-five pages and contains a considerable number of ob- 

 jects. All the readers of the Microscopical Journals can apply 

 for it, and will receive the Catalogue free. 



Superstitions About the Microscope. — At a recent meet- 

 ing of the St. Louis Mi';roscopical Society one of the younger 

 members, who is teaching histology, but who is still unsophis- 

 ticated as to what is sometimes expected of microscopists, 



