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WE regret our inability to furnish our readers with more news 

 concerning the meeting of the American Society this month. 

 When collecting material for our June issue we wrote a number of 

 letters to those who ought to be most deeply interested in this meet- 

 ing, asking for information concerning it. Only one letter was 

 answered, and that was about two weeks after the June issue was 

 mailed. We have tried and have failed. However, this would 

 neither keep us away from the meeting nor make us sick. President 

 McCalla will vouch for the statement that last fall it was our inten- 

 tion to be present at the Chicago meeting. We announced our 

 subject and sent to Paris for a new improved instrument to com- 

 plete our researches. (See our article in recent issue on'Malassez's 

 Compte-Globules). The instrument came, and also sickness. We 

 have not been able to look into a microscope since the roth of 

 December last. Therefore we wish it distinctly understood — in 

 justice to both the editors of this journal — it is by the direct com- 

 mand of our friends and physicians that we remain in this cool, 

 quiet part of our state, free from care and labor of any kind, until 

 the opening of the new college year, when we hope for a complete 

 return of health and strength. A happy, glorious success to our 

 Chicago meeting. 



BY the advice of friends we left the southern part of this state for 

 the cool, bracing air of its northern cities. Two very desirable 

 routes were before us. We could take the old reliable Detroit and Mil- 

 waukee R. R. to Grand Rapids and then by the Grand Rapids and 

 Indiana road speed away for the north; or we could get aboard of the 

 most elegant steamer on the lakes, the "City of Cleveland," and 

 there, with plenty to eat and neat quarters, while away the hours 

 until our genial captain says "this is Petoskey." We are under ob- 

 ligations to the accommodating passenger agent, Mr. C. D. Whit- 

 comb, of Detroit, for special favors. While away from our home 

 our tried friend, Dr. Hendricks, will look after the mailing of our 

 journal as well as many other things. It does certainly take sick- 

 ness to find out who ones friends are. 



