232 The Microscope. 



perfect rack and pinion adjustment; with tube of standard 

 length, supplied with society screw ; with brass stage, and re- 

 volving diaphragm ; with mirror; with any Huyghenian eye- 

 piece; with walnut case; and with a 1 2 inch objective and a 

 1-6 inch that can easily resolve p. angulatum, all for $22.50. We 

 would not advise our readers to buy such an outfit, neither would 

 we think of calling this business house a fraud and a swindle. 



Mr. Griffith's Latest. — We have before us a letter from 

 San Francisco, written to Mr. E. H. Griffith. It speaks in the 

 warmest terms of Mr. Griffith's plan of collecting the photo- 

 graphs of members of the American Society. Just on this point 

 we copy from "The National Druggist:" "Dr. James, of St. 

 Louis, remarked that while the society was in a thankful mood 

 there was another matter to which he desired to call attention, 

 and another man to whom he thought the society owed a vote of 

 thanks. He called the attention of the society to the collection 

 of cabinet photographs of the members which was displayed 

 upon the walls, and which had been gathered together by Mr. 

 E. H. Griffith, with a view of " securing the shadow ere the sub- 

 stance fades" of each and every one who had joined our rolls. 

 He would, therefore, move a vote of thanks to Mr. Griffith for 

 his action in the matter. 



" Professor Stowell said jocosely that Mr. Griffith had not 

 yet formally presented the pictures to the society. Everybody 

 knew how grasping and over reaching Griffith was in a trade, 

 and the first thing we knew he might be coming around here 

 with a bill against the society, charging us $1 a head for the 

 photos. 



" The allusion to Mr. Griffith's 'grasping and overreaching 

 ways in trade ' was received with a broad and audible smile by 

 the society, most of the older members of which had time and 

 again swindled him in one way or another — in fact every time 

 that they could get him to trade — and he was as fond of it as 

 though he always got the best of the bargain. 



" In answer to Mr. Stowell's remark, and amid calls for 

 Griffith! Griffith! that gentleman arose, his face beaming with 

 pleasure, and his top hair actually curling under the blush that 

 extended from his chin to the back of his neck, and formally 

 presented the collection to the society, accompanying the gift 



