THE MICROSCOPE. 



Vol. V. ANN ARBOR, SEPTEMBER, 1885. No. 9. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MIOKOSCOPISTS. 



REPORTED FOR THIS JOURNAL BY DR. S. M. MOSGROVE, URBANA, OHIO. 



THE American Society began its Ninth Annual Meeting by an 

 address of welcome from the President of the local Micro- 

 scopical Society, Mr. C. M. Vorce. He was followed by a few 

 words from the Mayor of the city, Mr. G. W. Gardner. In re- 

 sponse, Prof. H. L. Smith, as President of the Society, said he 

 wished to thank the speakers for their words of welcome. u We 

 come from all sections of the country to your beautiful city, 

 than which no more appropriate place of meeting could be 

 chosen. Fifty years have passed since my first visit to Cleve- 

 land. There existed then for those days a palatial hotel kept 

 by Mr. Scoville. At that time Ohio City on the west bank of the 

 river was the ambitious rival of Cleveland, and bade fair to 

 overshadow her glories. I look in vain for some of the old land- 

 marks that then existed. They have been swept away with the 

 flight of time and others have taken their places. At that time 

 there existed here a building called the ark, not because it re- 

 sembled Noah's ship nor because there were gathered there all 

 sorts and kinds of creatures, but because there were assembled 

 there the scientific and literary men of Cleveland, young men 

 full of ambition. Well do 1 remember their first microscope. 

 They thought it a wonderful instrument. Then they got a more 

 wonderful one, but even that was far inferior to what we now 

 have. We come to your city, not as politicians seeking office 

 nor as theologians, but as seekers after the truth." 

 Prayer was offered by the Rev. Jabez Hall. 



