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nearly dry, as is shown by its assuming a dull appearance, the 
mixture of alcohol and ether is dropped upon them rather freely. 
When this has evaporated until the surface of the sections again 
assumes a dull appearance, the slide is placed in 80% or weaker 
aleohol, and may then be treated by any of the reagents appli- 
cable to paraffin sections fixed with collodion. 
The advantages claimed for this method are three: the use 
of heat is dispensed with, and thus one source of inconvenience 
and injury to the sections is avoided; the paraffin is not removed 
(or melted) until the sections are fixed, and thus in sections 
consisting of disconnected parts, the position of these parts is 
preserved; labor and work-table space are saved by haying a 
single method which is applicable to both paraffin and celloidin 
sections, 
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EDITORIAL NOTES. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE K1iautH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERI- 
cAN Soctety or Microscopists.—We are in receipt of the above 
from the Secretary, Prof. D.S. Kellicott. Ata glance it is seen 
that the general style of this volume is much in advance of 
most of its predecessors. ‘The quality of the paper, the illustra- 
tions, and the proof-reading are very satisfactory. In previous 
numbers we have noticed as many as four errors in proof read- 
ing on a page, with a whole form missing or duplicated. Wedo 
not discover any such evidences of hasty work in the volume 
before us. In fact the whole volume reflects great credit on 
the publishing committee. What credit does it reflect on our 
society? ‘“Science,’”’ elevated, as it thinks it is, on its high- 
toned pinnacle at Boston, will doubtless have something to say 
about this “ volume of the proceedings of a company of amateurs 
and novices.” The fact is no reader of “‘ Science ” ever saw in 
that journal an article that commenced to show the amount of 
skilled, scientific labor that the paper by Prof. W. A. Rogers 
shows, on page 154. We also call the attention of “Science” 
to the address of our President; to the articles by Pres. J. D, 
Cox, and to others we might mention as well. We turn with 
some interest to the article by Dr. Thos. Taylor on “ Butter and 
Fats.” An abstract of this paper has already appeared in this _ 
journal, see Sept. No, 1885, p. 212. The question is, can butter 
