THE MICROSCOPE. 65 



Embryology. — A study of the development of the chick, includ- 

 ing microscopic sections of the same. 



Urinalysis. — A course of six weeks in the chemical analysis of 

 the urine, including the use of the microscope in determining the 

 character of the various deposits and crystals. 



The following is abridged from a report presented to the 

 Board of Regents the last college year : 



" The special committee appointed by your honorable body at 

 the meeting in May, 'to take into consideration the relation of in- 

 struction in microscopy to the various departments of the Univer- 

 sity,' and to report at the June meeting some 'systematic plan 

 for such instruction,' embodying recommendations touching the 

 question of fees for the use of microscopes, "and other matters per- 

 taining to such instructions," beg leave to present the following re- 

 port; 



" It is not necessary to conceal the fact that we have found the 

 duties imposed upon us, as exacting and delicate as they are honor- 

 able and responsible. We have discovered complications and con- 

 flicts which, at first, seem hardly reconcilable with an economical, 

 efficient, and mutually satisfactory scheme of simplification. We 

 are happy to state, however, that we have finally agreed upon a 

 plan of organization of microscopical work in the University which 

 seems to fulfill the most essential requirements, and secures, so far 

 as we are informed, the approval of all who are immediately con- 

 cerned. 



" Few among us were aware of the magnitude to which the 

 microscopical work in the University has grown. The modern 

 methods of research in all the physical and biological sciences have 

 involved more and more an appeal to the microscope to resolve for 

 us the last problems in the sciences of matter and of life. It may 

 be set down to the credit of the teachers of science in the Uni- 

 versity, and thus to the credit of the University, that we have not 

 been left behind in the adoption of the improved methods of re- 

 search. Undoubtedly there may still be those outside the ranks of 

 scientific investigators and teachers, who only know the microscope 

 as a toy which excites wonder by its revelation of the hairs on a 

 fly's leg or the animalcules in a drop of stagnant water. 

 But such inadequate conceptions must exert no influence in pre- 



