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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT— A MONTHLY JOUR- 

 NAL FOR ONE DOLLAR. 



THIS number closes the books for volume three of "The Micro- 

 scope." 



On the fifteenth day of January we shall issue the first number 

 of volume four, as a monthly journal of twenty-four pages. 



We shall aim to make our journal the representative of "Ameri- 

 can Microscopy" in the broadest sense of the term. That part of 

 our old title therefore — "and its relation to medicine, etc.," — will be 

 omitted. 



As the length of our list of subscribers increases so will the 

 number of our pages increase. 



We make this change to a monthly at considerable extra outlay 

 of money and labor, but we do it in the belief that the microscopists 

 of our country will be pleased with it. Does it please you? Then 

 encourage us by dropping a line and telling us so. 



Our subscribers are entitled to one more number of forty-eight 

 pages to complete this volume, for which they have paid one dollar. 

 We desire all subscriptions to commence with the January number. 

 Therefore, all old subscribers will please forward to us eighty cents for 

 volume four. This will pay your subscription for our monthly from 

 January, 1884, to January 1885. 



Persons not intending to renew for volume four will receive the 

 January and February numbers, after which their names will be 

 dropped at their request. 



Those who have not settled for volume three will please send 

 one dollar and eighty cents for volumes three and four. 



A HAPPY NEW YEAR. 



THE year eighteen hundred and eighty-three is drawing to a 

 close and in a few days the new year will be welcomed in. 

 Time passes so rapidly with those who are earnestly engaged in 

 the more active duties of life, that its flight is not appreciated until 

 the death-knell of the old year is sounded and we are s uddenly 

 aroused by the merry peals of the new. 



