Tue MicroscoricaL News 
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NORTHERN MICROSCOPIST. 
No. 44. AUGUST. 1884. 
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MICROSCOPISTS, 
SESSION OF 1884. 
We have received a circular respecting the next (seventh) 
annual meeting of this live society from the secretary, 
D. S. Kellicott, and publish below that portion which is of general 
interest. ‘The local committee is a large and strong one. We 
notice in the list many familiar names. 
“The Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society will be held at 
Rochester, New York, beginning on Tuesday, August roth, 1884, 
lasting four days. Members of the society will need little urging 
to attend, for the steadily growing interest in the meetings for six 
years is a sufficient guarantee that they will look forward to this one 
with eager anticipation. 
The value of the organisation has been established, and we are 
full of hopeful expectation that all the working microscopists of 
the country will join its membership, and make it the centre of 
active microscopical investigation, and the means of mutual 
stimulus to better and higher scientific work. This year’s meeting 
offers some special inducements to attend its sessions. 
The time is set a week before the meeting of the British Asso- 
ciation at Montreal, that of the American Association at Phila- 
delphia occurring one week later still. We hope that we shall 
have the pleasure of welcoming distinguished men of science from 
the British Islands and from Canada, whose names are familiar to 
us from their valuable work with the microscope. 
The arrangements made by the local committees are such as to 
ensure most agreeable and interesting sessions, with the most 
ample facilities for those who present papers to illustrate them by 
projection apparatus and otherwise. 
The sessions for illustration of practical work in preparing and 
mounting objects, which proved so fascinating and useful a feature 
of the Chicago meeting, will be still more varied and instructive 
than before. 
VOL. IV. 
