46 Tue MIcRoscoPE. 
THE PoPpE MANUFACTURING Co. 
Among the beautiful calendars for 1886, we would espec- 
ially notice the one telling us of the Columbia Bicycle. 
Vick’s FLORAL GUIDE for 1886. 
A STuDY OF THE MICROSCOPICAL APPEARANCES OF CYSTIC DEGEN- 
ERATION OF THE CERVIX UTERI. W. P. Manton, M. D., Detroit. 
PRIMARY PHENOMENAL ASTRONOMY. By F. H. Bailey, Northville, 
Mich. pp. 100. Price 25 cents. 1886. 
THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY CATALOGUE. 1885-86. 
TRANSACTIONS OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF PENN- 
SYLVANIA, May 1885. Vol. XVII. 
THE CENTURY. 
This magazine for February opens with a full page portrait 
of Gen. Geo. B. McClellan. The series of ‘‘ War Papers ” con- 
tains an article from “‘ Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant; ” “ Our 
March Against Pope,” by Longstreet; “ Anecdotes of McClellan’s 
Bravery,” and also several memoranda. A large number of 
authors write “open letters” on ‘international copyright.” 
Geo. W. Cable contributes ‘“ The Dance in Place Congo.” This 
number contains also the first chapter of Howell’s new serial, 
“The Minister’s Charge.” There is a large amount of interest- 
ing reading besides the above, all of which makes their “ mid- 
winter number” a very instructive and entertaining one. 
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A rapid, though not a very neat, method of mounting with 
glycerine is one suggested, if I remember rightly, by Mrs. Lou- 
isa Reed Stowell, the accomplished junior editor of the M1cro- 
scopg, and one of the faculty of the University of Michigan. 
No preliminary cell work or ring is needed. The object is ar- 
ranged in place upon the slip, and a very minute quantity of 
elycerine is used, so that when the cover-glass is applied the rim 
of fluid does not extend quite to the edge of it. The cement is 
applied in the usual way, and runsin under the cover-glass until 
it comes in contact with the mounting fluid. I know nothing 
personally of the durability of slides thus made, though when 
the work is carefully done the slide looks tolerably well, The 
one great advantage of this method is the rapidity with which 
mounts can be made and finished.—/. LZ. James in Nat. Drug. 
