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sent, and hereafter the business will b3 carried on in the name 

 of the old firm. 



We are not in the habit of sending sample copies to non- 

 subscribers. The proper thing, therefore, for a non subscriber 

 to do, upon seeing a copy of the journal, is to send his dollar 

 and try the journal for a year. 



As beautiful slides as we have ever seen are prepared and 

 sold by Mr. W. 0. Walker, of Utica, N. Y. Many ol our read- 

 ers are Jamiliar with his unique way of finishing a mount. The 

 preparations consist of ordinary and test diatoms. 



Bauscii & Lomb announce that they are now making a se- 

 ries of new microtomes ranging in price from $22 to $00. The 

 knife is carried on a sliding block, as recommended by Profes- 

 6or Thoma, and the microtome has many improvements. 



A large amount of interesting and practical matter on 

 methods of work and mounting, is held over for our next issue. 

 No microscopical journal published in the whole woild con- 

 tains such a proportion of " original coummunications " as 

 The Microscope. 



Dr. Allen Y. Moore, of Cleveland, wrote us some weeks 

 ago that a promised article still remained unfinished, k ' on ac- 

 count, of a very difficult case in court.''' 1 The case has proved to 

 be Miss Gertie Neele, of Coldwater, Mich., to whom the doctor 

 was recently married. We hope this case will always remain 

 in court. 



Our readers will pardon us, we are sure, for calling atten- 

 tion to the fact that the junior editor has just been elected a 

 Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society of London. Mrs. 

 Stowell is the first American lady thus honored, and the third 

 lady ever elected to membership, the two ladies thus previously 

 honored being residents of London. • 



American microscopistshave never had such a feast of good 

 things laid before them as The Microscope offers for 1885. The 

 articles on k - Embryology " will appear in each number through 

 the year, as will also those on " Results of Microscopical lie- 

 search. 1 ' Arrangements are well under way for a complete 

 series of illustrated articles on "The Identification of Diatoms." 

 The "Studies in Histology" will be continued from last year, 



