42 Tur Microscope. 
meeting. They should be sent to Geo. E. Fell, M. D., Buffalo, 
ja ae 
Tue editor of the Indiana Medical Journal is expressive to 
say the least. Under the title “ Monkeying with the Micro- 
scope” he proceeds to give his medical readers some sound ad- 
vice. He calls the attention of those who purchase a microscope 
for the purpose of ‘ furnishing the office” and tells them that 
they waste their time and money. Another fallacy is in the 
mounting of scores of slides. This should not be done he says, 
“unless for recreation or as a hobby.” He suggests that the 
busy practitioner buy his mounted slides of some well-known 
specialist, and that he spend most of his time set apart for mi- 
croscopical work ‘in studying the microscope for all it is worth 
as a means of diagnosis.” The editor says he would not rail at 
scientific investigation but “an amateurish dilletanteism which 
saps the mental and physical activities, and locks out and keeps 
from the doctor that which his patients need and pay for.” He 
would have the busy practitioner put his microscope on a par 
with the test-tube, the clinical thermometer, the stethoscope, 
and the exploring trochar. Each physician should have a micro- 
scope and then use it. 
Some of our readers may remember how a certain editor, 
—‘ anxious to pose as the champion of pure science,” as The 
National Druggist designated him under the title of “A Savant 
and a Snop,”—tried to strangle our youthful aspirations by call- 
ing us a “serio-comic journal” and the like. But listen, the 
last number of the Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society 
speaks of the account given of the Cleveland meeting by said 
editor in his journal for October. as “A serio-comie account.” 
Alas, how low have the mighty fallen. 
Personally, however, we thought the account was a first- 
rate one, believing that it is possible to make a journal contain 
interesting reading at least once a year. 
(JuERIES.—Mr. W. H. Bulloch propounds the following 
questions for microscopists to answer: 
First. What is the magnifying power of an inch lens at 
ten inches between the object and lens? 
