DEC 11 1901 
RA 
(18 Ry 
NEW YORK 
BOTARICAL 
Carpe 
Tur NortTHERN MuIcROscorPIst. 
INO;. “5, JANUARY. 1881. 
TO OUR READERS. 
HE commencement of a new year is, perhaps, an appropriate 
time for launching a new venture, as at this period mankind 
generally is making all manner of resolves and promises, and being 
in a most unsettled state is apt to fix upon anything new and 
settling down to rest with it, gives it a trial. 
In issuing THE NoRTHERN MIcroscopisT we have every reason 
to hope for success, seeing that its aim is to keep a record of the 
proceedings of the chief Microscopical Societies in the North, and 
so furnish the individual member with at least as much permanent 
information as he would obtain if the Society to which he belonged 
published its own transactions—may be more. 
Since sending out-our prospectus we have received numerous 
congratulatory letters, assuring us of support, and we have much 
pleasure in testifying to the good-will which appears to exist amongst 
microscopists generally, as evidenced by the results of our prelimi- 
nary correspondence. 
Many microscopists have written us setting forth the absolute 
need of a journal such as this. 
We should only be wasting time and space if we entered into a 
lengthy dissertation as to what we proposed to do in future numbers. 
No. 1 is a type of what is to follow; but in sending it forth into 
the world we are conscious that it may admit of improvement, and 
