284 THE MIcROSCOPR. 
by one man, the secretary, Rev. M.S. Hard, of Canandaigua ; 
half of the whole number of pages is in small type; and fifteen 
pages are covered with tables of statistics, thirty-one columns 
in width, with several rows of figures in each column. The 
amount of clerical work on each page is about equal to twenty 
pages of ordinary print. Yet, in just twenty-one days trom the 
date of adjournment, and from the date of Mr. Hard’s first 
stroke of the pen, the proceedings are in the hands of members. 
PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE PARASITIC FUNGI OF WISCONSIN. By 
William Trelease, of Madison, Wis. pp. 40. Price, 25 cents. 
INTERNAL PARASITES IN DOMESTIC Fowts. By Thos. Taylor, M. D., 
Washington, D. C. 
ORGANISMS IN HaristonEs.—Boyd Moss has, on two or three 
occasions during the last twelvemonth, collected a few hail- 
stones in a conical glass, so that anything contained in them 
subsided to the bottom as they melted, and has always found 
organized remains, but he never had any idea of the quantity 
of these till a recent hail-storm. He figures the contents of a 
single hailstone (about + in. in diameter), which he placed, with 
every precaution as to cleanliness, between the glasses of a live- 
box. These consisted of diatoms, a living Amaba, a spore, 
probably of fungus, pale yellowish bodies like ova about 3 to 4 
times the diameter of a human red blood-corpuscle (at least 40 
of these), and a dark brown mass with small bright spherules. 
The Amwba and one diatom were in active movement. The 
spore [?] he calls the attention of microscopists to, and would 
be glad to hear if they are acquainted with it, “Sas it is one of 
several of the same kind which he discovered among the fibres 
of the heart of animals dead from cattle disease in India in 
1870, and described in the Monthly Microscopical Journal for 
December of that year, p. 312.°—Royal Mic. Jour. 
