88 The Microscope. 



13. Make a drawing of a transverse section of the spinal cord, 

 and name the different parts. 



14. Where can we normally find the following structures ? 

 Yellow elastic tissue. Odontoblasts. 



White fibrous tissue. Stratified epithelium. 



Osteoblasts. The largest nerve- cells. 



Pacinian bodies. Oval blood-corpuscles. 



Goblet cells. Nerve plexus of Auerbach. 



Pigment Cells. Rods of Heidenhain. 

 Columnar cells with long, 

 basal processes. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



"Anything to Win." — There is a certain editor of a co- 

 temporaneous journal who finds his chief amusement in ridicul- 

 ing anything that appears in this particular journal which 

 departs in the least from his standard of dry, uninteresting, un- 

 practical and purely theoretical science. He holds that white 

 zinc cement is a worthless medium ; and he did not like it when 

 we said that we had finished five or six thousand specimens a 

 year, for the past six or eight years, with this same medium, 

 and with surprising good results. Dr. Frank L. James has sent 

 a few dynamite charges into this editor's camp also, and how he 

 did it is told on page 65 of our March issue. As each individ- 

 ual, however, has a right to his own opinion there is nothing 

 very surprising in the above. Dr. James' shadow will not grow 

 less as a result of it, and our own subscription list is rapidly and 

 constantly increasing. What shall we say, however, when an 

 editor is reduced to such an extremity that he will openly at- 

 tack a lady, in the most unkind and ungentlemanly manner ? 

 When a lady is doing superior and honest work, and is just es- 

 tablishing a reputation for the ready sale of that work ; when 

 she goes so far as to present said editor with some samples of 

 her work ; what shall we say of the man who says in print, 

 * u they are all defective, and the specimens are already ruined"? 

 Our indignation is still further aroused at such pusillanimous 

 meanness when we read that this lady said in her letter to the 



* Am. Month Mic. Jour, p. 39. 



