The Microscope 



AND ITS RELATION TO 



Medicine and Science. 



VOL. III. | 



WHOLE NO. 17 f 



Ann Arbor, December, 1883. 



No. 5 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 



Original Communications, 



The Fakir and his little Fakes 193 



Resolution of Amphipleura by Sun- 

 Light, Mirror-Bar Central. By H. 



J . Detmers, M. D 197 



The Resolution of Amphipleura Pe!- 

 lucida.— A Reply to Dr. Detmers. 



Bv A. Y. Moore 201 



Practical Helps. By E. H. Griffith.. . 204 

 A New Bacterium. By J. M. Adams. 207 

 Gleanings from the Journal of the 

 Royal Microscopical Society for 



October. By C. H. Stowell 207 



Notes on Heterophrys Myriapoda. 



By Dr. Alfred C. Stokes 208 



Differentiation of Blood Corpuscles. 

 By Thad S. Up De Graff 211 



PAGE. 



Nerve-Terminations in Cells. By W. 



H. Birchmore 216 



New Congress Nose-Piece, Patented 



i83v By W. H. Bulloch 218 



The Illinois State Microscopical So- 

 ciety 218 



Correspondence 2*0 



Editorial Department 22a 



Selections 225 



Items 831 



Reviews 234 



At the Doctors' Expense 238 



Our Advertisers 239 



Exchanges 240 



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THE FAKIR AND HIS LITTLE FAKJSS. 



FAKE NUMBER ONE. 



A FEW days ago a friend who travels from the East, the land of 

 light, and who is personally acquainted with almost every prac- 

 tical microscopist from Maine to California, dropped into my office 

 with his cheery "howd'yedo?" and asked the address of a good 

 gold-plater. 



"I have here," said he, "the finest wide-angled" (I am not 

 going to give the focal length, for fear of "locating" him) "that I 

 ever saw. I prize it above everything, and I want to have it gold- 

 plated. I have just plated it myself with silver, but of course that 

 will soon wear off, though it is very brilliant now." 



"How did you plate it?" I asked. 



" Oh ! I bought a bottle of plating fluid from a street-vender — 

 gave him a dime for it — and it is really very good. It's astonishing 

 how cheaply they sell that stuff." 



Here he pulled out the case to show me that famous wide- 



