274 THE Microscope. 
Results of Microscopical Research. 
ie this department of Tue Microscope it is our intention to 
give each month, a series of abstracts of the more important 
papers which are appearing in all parts of the world, and which 
are largely or wholly the results of investigations with that 
extremely useful instrument which gave its name to this journal. 
In preparing these abstracts we have taken as our model those 
found in the valuable Journal of the Royal Microscopical 
Society, only endeavoring to express the ideas in plain language, 
and in some cases prefacing the abstract with a review of what 
was known before upon the subject, so that the bearing of the 
new results may be apparent at a glance. The subjects em- 
braced will be chiefly confined to investigations on the minute 
structure and the development of animals and plants, thus 
rendering our Magazine a necessity for all teachers and students 
who wish to keep posted on the most recent morphological 
researches and who, by locality, are debarred from the use of 
the larger libraries. 
With each article we shall give a reference to the original 
paper so that those who may wish to read it at length can read- 
ily find it. As our space is limited we have adopted a system 
of abbreviations for the Journals from which we shall most 
frequently quote, a list of which is here given. Other abbrevi- 
ations may be occasionally used but in most cases they will be 
self explanatory. 
ABBREVIATIONS : 
AS ann —Archiv fiir mikroskopische Anatomie (Max 
Schultzes Archiy). 
ASN: —Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte (Wiegmann’s Archiy). 
Am. Jour. —American Journal of Science and Art (‘‘ Silliman’s 
Journal’’), 
Am, Nat. —American Naturalist. 
Ann. and Mag. —Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 
Ann. Sci. Nat. —Annales des Sciences Naturelles. 
Arb. Wien. —Arbeiten a. d. zoologische Institut der Universitat 
Wien (Claus’s Arbeiten). 
Arb. Wiirz. —Arbeiten aus dem zoologesche, zootomisches Insti- 
tut zu Wiirzburg. (Semper’s Arbeiten). 
