298 THe Microscope. 
Editorial Department, 
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT. 
With the November number of our journal we shall adda 
feature which no doubt will commend itself to our subscribers. 
We shall try to give abstracts of the moreimportant papers in 
those departments of science, as histology and embryology, when 
the microscope is the instrument of research. This will prove 
especially valuable to teachers and students of natural science, 
as they may thus keep themselves posted on the most recent 
advances of science. This department will be under the charge 
of one of our most advanced microscopists and embryologists. 
We are not at liberty at present to reveal the name, but our 
readers have a treat before them. 
A WORKING SESSION. 
We are inreceipt of letters from some of our live, active 
men, asking us to urge the formation of a society whose sole 
object shall be the study of methods of work; a meeting of 
working microscopists. The plan proposed is after the fashion 
of the working session of the American Society. ‘‘ Unless Mr. 
Griffith assumes control again we shall certainly push matters,” 
says a late writer. We cannot advocate this; it would take 
away two-thirds of the members of the American Society. 
Let us stand by our organization. ‘‘ Stand by the king,” is good 
advice. By the way, President Smith assures us in a private 
letter, that he should exceedingly regret the loss of the work- 
ing session. 
Try it just one more year, Mr. Griffith. 
THE GREAT LIGHTS OF THE PAST; WHERE ARE 
THEY ? 
In the early days of the American Society, when there 
were just members enough to fill the long list of officers, there 
appeared a great and a shining light. It was fastened to an old 
horse called “‘angular aperture,’ whose frantic endeavors to 
annihilate Prof. Smith, of Cleveland, is a simple matter of his- 
