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of microscopical science, that they now come forward and show 

 their good will. 



Write to me what subject you will be willing to demon- 

 strate, what apparatus you will exhibit, what processes and 

 methods you will explain, what arrangements you will need 

 to have provided for your work, etc., etc. Also send me the 

 names and address of all those you know to be expert in photo- 

 micrography or micro-photography, and the names and officers 

 of all microscopical or scientific societies in your neighborhood. 

 You can do this in a few minutes of time and with but a trifle 

 of labor to each of you — for me to do it all will require weeks of 

 incessant labor, and I am already about worn out. " Help me, 

 Cassius, or I sink ! " 



Reader, I mean you. 



Through some mistake the half page advertisement of 

 "The Bistoury" was dropped from our last two issues. Yet 

 Dr. Up de Graif keeps right on adding to his long list of sub- 

 scribers If you do not know what a good journal a man can 

 publish for fifty cents a year, just send that amount to the doc- 

 tor's address at Elmira, and find out. 



We are in receipt of six as handsome slides as are 

 found anywhere. The specimens themselves are beautiful, 

 especially the transverse section of Virgin's Bower, while the 

 finish of White Zinc is superb. They come from R. K. Pearce, 

 5219 Pear st., Philadelphia. 



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