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to some the cost of attendance. Any one, man or woman, 
engaged in any line of teaching which involves the use of 
the microscope can pick up hints enough from those 
whom he, or she, will meet to repay a moderate expendi- 
ture. And in the present day a teacher in any such line 
who is not progressive will soon become a fossil. 
Persons desirous of joining the society either as active 
workers or as learners are requested to send their names 
to the Secretary, Dr. Wm. C. Krauss, of Buffalo, N. Y., to 
Mr. Magnus Pflaum, of Pittsburgh, Pa., or to the Presi- 
dent, Dr. EK. W. Claypole, Akron, Ohio. 
The subscription is two dollars yearly with an entrance 
fee of three dollars, in return for which a member is 
entitled to a copy of the proceedings containing the 
papers read at the annual meetings. 
Simple Apparatus for Photo-Micrography. 
By M. J. GOLDEN, 
| LAFAYETTE, IND. 
This device enables one to secure a photograph of a 
section with little loss of time, and with little disturb- 
ance of the section. 
The device consists of a piece of board, about an inch 
thick, forty inches long and about twelve inches wide, to 
which are attached a shelf to hold the microscope, and a 
sliding piece with a pair of brackets to carry the box of 
anordinary band camera. Under the shelf another piece 
of board is fastened to the first, at right angles, and this 
assists in supporting the shelf, and serves asa leg to help 
keep the apparatus in an upright position. 
The back, leg, shelf and sliding piece may be con- 
structed from a piece of smooth pine board; and the 
bolts and nut used with the sliding piece are ordinary 
machine ones, that may be gotten at a hardware store. 
One of the bolts must have the same pitch as the hole in 
