The Microscope. 155 



preserving, and mounting media, with instructions how to pre- 

 pare animals for injection and physiological study. His chapters 

 on biology deal with the amoeba and the cell, the morpological 

 elements of the body, the blood, its physical and microscopical 

 characters, its medico-legal importance, with rules as to the de- 

 tection and differentiation of blood stains, the counting and 

 measuring of blood corpuscles, after which follows the normal 

 histological study of the various tissues, i. e. epithelium, con- 

 nective tissue, muscle, bone, teeth, adipose, glandular, nervous, 

 vascular and other structures. 



The book concludes with a description of the various kinds 

 of tumors most usually found. It tells how to preserve them ; 

 what kind of media are best suited for the various growths ; 

 how to classify them ; their origin ; formation types ; and meth- 

 ods of examination with the microscope. Altogether the book 

 is what it claims to be, a Student's Manual, and has about it the 

 "chalk marks" of a teacher who knows how to handle his class. 

 — J. 0. Stillson, in the Indiana Pharmacist. 



COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION. 



The May meeting of the Western Association of Collegiate 

 Alumnae was held at the Art Institute Building yesterday. At 

 the business session three measures of importance were con- 

 sidered: The organization of local committees in Rockford, 

 Ann Arbor, and Milwaukee; the formation of a Teachers' Bu- 

 reau, to provide situations for members of the association desiring 

 to teach ; and a memorial to be sent to Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity asking for the admission of women to post-graduate courses. 

 The literary exercises of the afternoon were both profitable and 

 interesting. Mrs. Louisa Reed Stowell, of the University of 

 Michigan, made an address on ''The 



ADVANTAGES OF POST-GRADUATE STUDY, 



and the Opportunities Afforded at the University of Michigan." 

 Mrs. Stowell has the distinguished honor to have been recently 

 elected Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, an honor to 

 a woman accorded to her alone in the United States, and which 

 she shares with only two others, wives respectively of the pres- 

 ident and secretary of the society in London. 



