THE MICROSCOPE. 223. 



The history of the past teaches us we are safe in asserting that 

 not a single reader of this journal has passed through the year with- 

 out feeling the pain of some sorrow; yet most of us, at the same 

 time, have been blessed with many of the real comforts of life. 

 So while we wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New 

 Year, we add, most emphatically, make it merry and happy to your- 

 selves and to others by generous gifts to the poor. 



A NEW MICROSCOPICAL JOURNAL. 



AT the close of the present year, Mr. S. E. Cassino, of Boston, 

 will discontinue the publication of the American Monthly 

 Microscopical Journal. 



In the place of that journal he will present the Science Record, 

 a monthly journal of scientific notes and news, in which the micro- 

 scope will occupy the most prominent position. 



"All theoretical questions of little practical importance and less 

 popular interest will be omitted." Evidently from this quotation from 

 Mr. Cassino's circular, he has found from experience that it does 

 not pay to publish a microscopical journal that contains nothing but 

 "theoretical questions of little practical importance and less popular 

 interest." We are very glad that Mr. Cassino has taken hold of this 

 matter, for as a publisher he is so situated that he cannot fail to 

 make this a success. J. S. Kingsley, of Maiden, Mass., is the new 

 editor and to him we extend fraternal greetings. 



'We hate the man who makes his fame, 

 By tearing down another's name.' 



Therefore, Mr. Kingsley, just because you are to edit a micro- 

 scopical journal you will not be called — by us— all manner of un- 

 kind and evil things as a certain editor (who has just returned from 

 England!!) choosed to call us when we were young and inex- 

 perienced with the editorial pen. 



However, we could wish you no better success than to get the 

 free advertising we were given at that time. It brought us scores 

 of subscribers, eighty-five in one month. "For," said a friend in a 



letter to us, "if Mr. is against you, it is the best evidence in 



the world that everybody else is for you." 



The subscription price to "Science Record" is one dollar a year. 

 Any of our subscribers wishing that journal may remit to us and we 

 will forward the amount to the proper parties. 



