Abbe’s papers on the microscope, and this subject will provide 
sufficient food for reflection for some time to come. 
The Editor desires to thank those microscopists who have aided 
him during the present year, and in fact in previous years also, but 
more particularly has the help been valuable during the preparation 
of the present volume, when it was hardly possible to give 
sufficient time even for the reading of proofs. 
Our Verification department will still continue. We shall be 
glad to verify any objectives that may be sent us, and will feel 
grateful also for notes upon microscopical matters, useful for future 
issues of the Editor’s work on Practical Microscopy, an entirely 
new edition of which is now preparing. 
With this, we conclude, and wish our readers 
“THE COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON.” 
