54 THE MICROSCOPICAL NEWS. 
apt to break the cover-glass by racking the objective down upon it. 
A piece of wood rather wider than an ordinary glass slide has a 
hole cut in the centre large enough to admit the light to the object. 
Between this hole and the sides of the piece of wood two small 
strips of wood are fixed, and on the top of each of these is a thin 
strip of brass, rather longer than the strip of wood, so as to over- 
hang at each end. A couple of india-rubber rings are then passed, 
one round each pair of projecting ends, and between these, 
suspended in a kind of hammock, is placed the slide which it is 
desired to protect. If then the objective is brought down upon 
the cover-glass, the india-rubber springs yield to the pressure, and 
the object is saved from destruction. 
THE New Baronet.—Mr. Joseph Lister, F.R.S., LL.D., of 
Park Crescent, Marylebone, one of the Surgeons Extraordinary to 
Her Majesty, upon whom a patent of baronetcy has been conferred 
on account of his professional ability and services, is an M.B. of 
the University of London (1852), a Fellow of the Royal College of 
Surgeons, England (1852), and a Fellow of the Royal College of 
Surgeons, Edinburgh, (1855). He was for some time Regius Pro- 
fessor of Surgery in the University of Glasgow, and Assistant 
Surgeon and Lecturer on Surgery at the Royal Infirmary, Edin- 
burgh. In 1876 he was one of the members appointed for Scotland 
by the Privy Council to the General Medical Council. In 1880 he 
received the medal of the Royal Society, and in the following year 
the prize of the Academy of Paris was awarded to him for his 
observations and discoveries in the application of the antiseptic 
treatment in surgery, which has often been referred to as 
“Tisterism.” He received the degree of LL.D. at Glasgow University 
in 1879, D.C.L. at Oxford in 1880, and LL.D. at Cambridge 
in 1880. Sir Joseph Lister, according to the “‘ Medical Directory,” 
is the author of papers ‘‘On the Early Stages of Inflammation,” &c., 
in the “ Philosophical Transactions ;” “On the Minute Structure 
of Involuntary Muscular Fibre,” in the “Transactions of the Royal 
Society of Edinburgh ;” ‘On the Muscular Tissue of the Skin,” 
in the “ Microscopical Journal,” and of various other papers on 
“Surgical Pathology.” 
THE APPLICATIONS OF SECTION CuTTING.—In the Lord Mayor’s 
Court, recently, before the Recorder and a common jury, the case 
of Ricardo v. Abrahams was heard. ‘This was an action brought 
by the plaintiff, a dealer in precious stones, at 236, Southgate Road, 
against the defendant, a jeweller, of Houndsditch, to recover the 
sum of £17 14s. 4d. for a parcel of imitation sapphires sold and 
delivered. The defendant pleaded a denial of liability, alleging 
that the supposed stones were sold to him as real and turned out 
to be imitation. Mr. Innis was counsel for the plaintiff; Mr. 
