126 THE MICROSCOPE. 



Stems, 



Mr. J. D. Moller offers for sale a "type plate" of 1,600 arranged 

 diatoms. Price ,£80. Also a plate of 400 diatoms with the names 

 of each photograph beneath. 



Professor to Raw Student: "Where is the glottis?" "I don't 

 know, sir. I think you put it on the shelf in the dissecting-room 

 with the rest of your surgical instruments." 



The daughter of Claud Bernard converted her entire courtyard, 

 garden, parlor, and even bed-rooms into an immense kennel for the 

 care of destitute dogs. She hoped thus to make some reparation 

 for the miseries inflicted by the great physiologist upon the canine 

 race. 



Bacillus. — The Emperor of Germany recently requested Koch 

 to show him a bacillus tuberculi, and Koch showed him«a some- 

 thing which the Emperor could not dispute was a bacillus. Had it 

 been a maggot his Imperial Highness would scarcely have known 

 the difference. — Mich. Med. News. 



The Micrococcus of Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis. — Herr 

 Leyden demonstrated this micrococcus before the Berlin Society 

 for "Medicine," on February 19 {Medical Press, April 2, 1883)- 

 He concludes that there can no longer be any doubt as to the para- 

 sitic nature of the cerebro-spinal meningitis. He has found in the 

 exudation liquid of meningitis the same cocci as had been met with 

 in pneumonia, and he has likewise proved the existence of the cocci 

 in a case of pyocephalus. 



Says the Farmers' Magazine: over 300,000,000 pounds of oleo- 

 margarine was thrust upon the people the past twelve months, and 

 yet butter did not fall a cent in price, although this vast quantity 

 directly supplied the place of so much butter in the market. 

 Curiously, too, our supply of butter was as large as usual, and 

 promises, owing to the rapid multiplication of creameries, to be 

 larger, while the supply of oleomargarine will be doubled the coming 

 year. 



An insect exhibition is to be held in Paris this year from July 1 

 for just three weeks, under the auspices of the Central Society of 



