256 The Microscope. 



CONTROVERSIAL. 



Said Koch : " I've some comma baccilli ; " 

 Said Klein : " I don't think they will kill ; " " I," 

 Said Finkler (and Prior), 

 " Believe he's a liar ; " 

 Said Ferran : " I can knock you all sill-i." 



— New York Medical Record. 



THE " TIMES " ON THE MICROSCOPE. 



The following leading article appeared in the Times of the 

 26th August : 



" We publish this morning an article descriptive of some of 

 the progress which has been made during late years in the con- 

 struction and cheapening of Microscopes and of their accessory 

 apparatus — a progress so marked that it has become time for all 

 who are engaged in the work of construction to consider care- 

 fully to what extent the improved instruments of the present 

 day can be employed for the furtherance of the general work of 

 teaching. If we may adopt Paley's definition of education, as 

 " comprising every preparation that is made in our youth for the 

 sequel of our lives," we shall be prone to admit that few of these 

 preparations can be of greater importance, or of greater ultimate 

 utility, than the training of the eye to observe natural phenom- 

 ena, and the training of the mind to appreciate the meaning of 

 these phenomena and their relation to one another. It was a 

 great day during the childhood of many who have now passed 

 the meridian of life when the lecturer with an oxyhydrogen 

 Microscope was announced as being about to exhibit and to dis- 

 course at the town hall; and the huge transparency in which 

 the insect life of a drop of water was displayed in full activity 

 became a wellspring of new thoughts and increased mental ac- 

 tivitv to nearly all of those who gazed in wonder at the present- 

 ment of rapid movement, of abounding life, and of continual 

 destruction. The sight which was then to be seen only on rare 

 occasions, and as a sort of entertainment, is now at the daily 

 command of every schoolmaster, or of every parent who can 

 spare only a small amount of money, and who possesses suffi- 

 cient intelligence and mannual dexterity to learn the use of the 

 instrument which, more than any other, has led to increased 



