162 Tue Microscope. 
ANOTHER letter may be of interest to our readers also. 
‘*‘ Inclosed find the one dollar for the Microscopr another year, 
which I would not know how to do without. Its improvement 
in every way is too well known and accepted to make any word 
of commendation from me needed. I think next to Grover 
Cleveland I would rather be an editor of so good a microscop- 
ical journal. In the last number under your own name you ask 
in respect to E. M. Nelson’s remark as to the comparative occu- 
lar fatigue in the use of daylight or lamplight for the micro- 
scope, ‘ How is it with yours?’ That distinguished microsco- 
pist has startled us many times before with radically innovating 
similar or kindred assertions, many of which I have failed to 
accept, but in this his experience agrees with my own in the use 
of the monocular. With the binocular give me daylight for pro- 
longed consecutive observation—north light of course.” 
WE are in receipt of a number of micro-photographs of 
amphipleura mounted in Prof. Smith’s new medium. Spencer’s 
1-10 homogeneous, of 125° balsam angle was used. There are 
also some views of “ broken sections of a butterfly’s wing” taken 
with the binocular microscope. 
One plate represents the longitudinal and another the 
transverse lines of the amphipleura. Mr. N. Baldwin, of 
Wichita, Kansas, has our thanks for this remembrance. 
A NUMBER of our friends have sent us their renewals, but 
there are many hundreds more to follow. If you will send us 
just a dollar we will credit you for our journal for 1886 and will 
be greatly obliged besides. Your help will never be more wel- 
come. ‘* Many a little makes a muchel.” 
Our February number will contain the third paper by Mr. 
Walmsley, on Photo-Micrography, The illustrations are now 
being prepared for the same. 
Tue most favorable news comes from the executive com- 
mittee concerning the preparations for the next annual meeting 
of the American Society at Chautaugua. There are suitable 
rooms for the daily sessions and also for the working session. 
Of one thing we are assured, it will be a most harmonious ses- 
sion. There is not any subsection of “Geology ” hence no room 
for “ antediluvian scientific fossils.” 
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