THe Microscope. 87 
Ws have been favored with visits from Mr. Carl Lomb, of 
Rochester, N. Y., and Mr. Griffith, of Fairport, N. Y. 
Mr. Lomb spent the evening with us in testing some fine 
glasses and in trying new accessories. 
Three objectives of Mr. Lomhb’s are especially good for their 
kind; the “students” one-fifth; the “ first-class’ one sixth, and 
the “ homogeneous ” one-eighth. 
Mr. Lomb had with him a new sub-stage immersion illu- 
minator, working on the principle of the parabola. As soon as 
the cut arrives to illustrate the article we will again call atten- 
tion to this superior accessory. 
During the evening we tried our one-fiftieth and easily 
resolved the amphipleura, using only the ordinary method of 
illumination with bulls-eye condenser and mirror. 
Mr. Griffith reports activity all along the lines, and says 
there is a growing interest everywhere in microscopical mat- 
ters. He showed us one of his new cone-fitting nose-pieces 
which appeared to work with satisfaction. 
Both gentlemen bore testimony to the effect that the com- 
ing annual meeting in Rochester will be another grand success. 
Mr. Lomb says the best men in the city have charge of local 
matters and they are already at work; while Mr. Griffith says 
that all parties are working harmoniously together. 
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hee has met our more decided approval, in a long time, 
than the recent change in the price of the American 
Monthly, at Washington. Mr. Phin’s journal was too cheap. 
Mr. Hitchcock’s journal has furnished altogether more matter 
than the subscription price called for. Weare glad the price is 
now $1.50 a year and only regret that the publishers could not 
see their way clear to place it at $2.00, where it belongs. This 
journal would have followed the example at once; it stands 
ready to do so now. Wehave no ambition to conduct a journal 
with a low subscription price, and one dollar is altogether too 
