192 THE Microscope. 
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BisHor PorrER NOTICES ‘‘ ROSY PLUMES.” 
A full account of commencement exercises appeared in 
the Commercial Gazette, of Cincinnati. Speaking of Bishop 
Potter’s reply to the toast at the alumni dinner the correspon- 
dent says: ‘‘He made, in conclusion, a strong plea for the 
teaching in school of the handicrafts and complimented the 
University in having demonstrated the fact that women may 
receive a classical education and not be defeminized in matter 
of appearance; that a woman may be learned in medicine and 
science and still possess a soul touched to the finer issues of 
dress and (with a graceful gesture to that section of the hall 
where Mrs. Prof. Stowell, of the faculty, sat with a group of 
friends, her handsome head crowned by a cluster of rosy plumes) 
be even a university professor and yet not disdain a feather.”— 
Ann Arbor Register. 
“The ladies of the graduating classes of the University 
petitioned Mrs. Stowell, of the literary faculty, to represent 
them on commencement day by occupying a seat on the plat- 
form with the members of the faculties, the regents, the speaker 
of the day, ete. Mrs. Stowell, however, modestly declined the 
proffered compliment.”—Ann Arbor Courier. 
M. Pasteur has been furnished with an opportunity of 
testing his theories concerning rabies upon a human subject. 
One of the servants of the Paris and Lyon Railway at Taras- 
con-sur-Rhone, having been bitten by an undoubtedly mad dog, 
has just placed himself in the hands of the illustrious savant. 
In a short preliminary note in the Vratch, Prof. N. V. So- 
rokin, of Kazan, states that he has discovered a new polymor- 
phic micro-organism, which is invariably met in cases of follicular 
tonsillitis. The author proposes to name this micro-organism, 
leptothrix angine. 
