THE MICROSCOPE, 41 



A school of pharmacy 'for women has been opened at Louisville, 

 Ky. It is the only school in the world especially designed for the 

 advancement of women in pharmaceutical learning. — Ex. 



Dr. C. 0. Whitman is to have charge of the Department of 

 Microscopy in the American Naturalist in the future. This indi- 

 cates that that portion of the magazine will have a highly scientific 

 character. 



Dr. Thomas F. Lucy read a very interesting paper before the 



Elmira -Microscopical Society on " Microscopy and Botany." We 



would like to reproduce the whole paper, but we do not have the 

 space at our command. 



" Cohn estimates that one bacterial rod, under favorable circum- 

 stances, will produce 281,500,000,000 in forty-eight hours; and that, 

 were it not for the unfavorable circumstances incident to its situa- 

 tion, it would fill the ocean in five days." — Popular Science Monthly. 



At a meeting of the American Dermatological Society Dr. E. 

 W. Robinson, in a paper on "The Nerves of the Skin," stated that 

 nerves do not end in free ends, but in loops, and then return into 

 the superficial or dee]) plexuses, or into a neighboring papilla of the 

 skin. — Ex. 



"Away then," said Prof. Parish to the 35 young women to 

 whom he was giving diplomas as graduates of the Philadelphia 

 Woman's Medical College, "with the fallacious reasoning that a 

 woman may with propriety devote her capabilities to the study of 

 the lily or the rose, the spider or the beetle, but cannot study man, 

 the noblest work of Cod." — Ex. 



" Microscopical Diagnosis " has received the best of treatment 

 from the press, and a large number of copies have been sold. Baron 

 Ferd. von Mueller, of Sidney, Australia, says: I am quite touched 

 with your kindness, dear Mr. Davis, in sending me a copy of Dr. 

 Stowell's excellent " Microscopical Diagnosis." The book is doubly 

 interesting through the co-authorship of a lady. 



Dr. Formad, of Philadelphia, has produced epithelioma in dogs 

 by incising the skin and keeping up the irritation with a 



