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LMOST before we are aware of it, the year 1883 passes away, 
and THE MicroscopicaL News heralds the fact that the 
study of the Microscope in connection with Natural History is 
certainly spreading. We could point within our own circle of 
acquaintance to at least twenty young people who have essayed to 
employ the microscope as a means to obtaining a greater insight 
into Nature’s secrets, and we commend these studies to the young 
as a very healthful and enjoyable recreation. » 
Not only does the microscope enable us to see the degree of 
perfection in which many minute things are organized, but it 
serves to show, when used upon beings in the higher state of life, 
that every minute part of their anatomy will form objects for study. 
Then, again, the microscope serves as a gatherer for many a 
social evening: evenings furnishing amusement and instruction 
combined, and it has this advantage, that it only draws the indus- 
trious and the enquiring into its vortex. 
Our own part in the dissemination of microscopical knowledge 
has, we fear, been obscure, still we have endeavoured to give our 
readers the latest information on all those subjects known to be 
interesting to them. We only wish we could do more, but we fear 
the expense of enlarging the Journal, or illustrating it in a better 
manner, will preclude its being done until our circulation is more 
extended. 
We are glad to say that the circulation is on the increase, though 
