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low. If a specialist is not willing to pay $2.00 a year for a spec- 
ialists’ journal then he has but a microscopical idea of his 
specialty. 
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We will be very grateful if you will favor us with the ad- 
dresses of those parties whom you know to be interested 
in microscopy, especially those who own instruments. 
While we cannot recompense you for your labor, still we 
will be glad to show our appreciation of it by mailing to your 
address some human muscle, containing encysted trichine, 
enough for several mounts. Directions for mounting will 
accompany each bottle. 
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if is expected to continue the “Studies in Histology ” through 
the year. When complete they will form a text-book. 
Mrs. Stowell appears in our May number with an original 
article on vegetable histology, illustrated with a full page cut. 
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le answer to requests received during the past year from a 
large number of our friends, that we give them an illustration 
of our own faces, we would state that if we ever get over blush- 
ing from the effect of these compliments we may sometime 
startle them with the incomprehensible rebus of the senior edi- 
tor; the junior editor must speak for herself. 
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A NEW monthly journal, to be known as the American Mete- 
orological Journal, edited by Prof. M. W. Harrington, of 
the University, is soon to be published, the first issue being on 
the first of May. A journal, devoted to modern scientific mete- 
orology and allied branches of study is much needed in this’ 
country to serve the interest of American students. It begins 
with from 24 to 32 octavo pages, the price being $3.00. 
Prof. Harrington was the first person to interest the junior 
editor of this journal in microscopical matters. He was one of 
the first in this country, and the very first in this University, to 
