THE MICROSCOPE. 



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examined it with a one-fourth inch objective. We all saw the beau- 

 tiful spiral vessels and cells of the vegetable kingdom. (See figures 

 j and 2.) 



FIG. 2. EPIDERMIS OF STRAW. 



A, Rows of Stomates. B, Opposite, or over the Vascular Bundles seen at A, Fig. 1. 

 Drawn with Camera Lucida, X 75. 



The microscope had resolved the " worm " into the fragments, 

 of a longitudinal part of a straw. 



JOURNAL DE MICROGRAPH! E (JAN. AND FEB. NUMBERS 



1883)— VIEWS OF THE EDITOR ON THE GERM 



THEORY IN DISEASE— ANNOUNCEMENT 



OF A SERIES OF PAPERS BY 



PROF. BALBIANI OF THE 



COLLEGE OF FRANCE. 



ABSTRACTED FROM THE FRENCH BY LORIN HALL, A. M., 

 ASSISTANT IX MICROSCOPY, UXIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. 



M. D. 



IN the January and February numbers of the "Journal de Micro- 

 graphie," edited by Dr. J. Pelletan, is a review by the editor, 

 of the "Micro-Organism" as referring to disease. The position taken 

 is a negative one, the author preferring not to believe because of in- 

 sufficient proof. The hold which the theory has taken upon the 

 scientific world, he explains by saying, that the theory is so simple, 

 and explains so readily and simply many heretofore inexplicable 



