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The Microscope. 



V. limentis, sp. nov. (Fig. 1). Body 

 smooth, conical-campanulate, widest anterior- 

 ly, less than twice as long as broad, con- 

 stricted beneath the peristome which exceeds 

 the body center in width, is everted and slight- 

 ty revolute ; ciliary disc elevated, rounded ; 

 endoplasm colorless, granular; pedicle six or 

 seven times as long as the body, the sheath ap- 

 parently twisted. Length of Body 1-425 to 1-450 

 inch. Habitat — On Utricularia in the cedar 

 swamps of the New Jersey pine barrens. Soli- 

 tary. 



To include this in the Key to the Vorti- 

 cellse published in the Microscope for May, 



1885, the following should be inserted in § § § immediately 



after V. dubia, From 



§ § § Conical-campanulate ; border not undulate ; pedicle 6 



to 7 times as long as the body, the sheath apparently twisted. 



V. limnetis. 



GLEANINGS FROM THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL 

 MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY FOR APRIL. 



C H. STOWELL. 



COST of Objectives of large aperture. The great increase in 

 the labor necessary to produce an objective of large aper- 

 ture is but little understood or appreciated. For instance, a 

 1-6 inch of 1.50 N. A. costs about $175. Yet this journal re- 

 marks that, high as this price seems, " it does not represent 

 more than a very moderate return for the skill which the con- 

 struction of such an objective requires." 



Monoculars vs. Binoculars. A writer in the English Mech. 

 says that the great majority of men who use the microscope as 

 a tool and not as a plaything, look upon the English craze for 

 binoculars and complicated stages and accessories as sheer 

 waste of time. 



Remarkable fungoid growth. A small fragment of mucus 

 from the stomach of a mad dog was placed in water. The fluid 

 contained pepsin and possessed all the properties of the gastric 



