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suggestions from microscopists in regard to the session will be 
gladly received. If time will permit an hour or more will be 
devoted to discussion on special methods, but no member will 
be expected to occupy more than five minutes, or to speak more 
than once without permission. 
It will save much valuable time in giving explanations, and 
add greatly to the practical results of the day if as many of those 
who assist, as feel willing to do so, will procure for distribution 
printed descriptions of their methods of work, whether original 
or not. These descriptions will cost but a trifle, and they will 
aid the Secretary also in preparing the Proceedings for the 
printer. Will you not please do this for the benefit of those 
who desire information, and for the success of the session, and 
will you not have it done at once ? 
Prof. D. S. Kellicott, our Secretary, has secured a valuable 
contribution of slides from the members of our Society, which 
are to be the nucleus of a permanent collection for the Society’s 
use. In addition to this, the Director of the Working Session 
solicits from all microscopists, and from others who are willing 
to contribute slides, mounting materials, apparatus, books, 
papers, etc., which shall be known as the Working Session Col- 
lection, and which shall be in the care of a custodian selected by 
vote of the Society. W711 you please respond at once to this in- 
vitation and send to Fairport, N. Y.? Our honored Ex-Presi- 
dent, Prof. H. L. Smith, suggests that at some future time, not 
far distant, the American Society of Microscopists may select 
some city where it shall meet at stated periods of five or ten 
years in rooms fitted up expressly for it, and where all of its 
property may be safely stored. 
At this early date it is impossible to give a programme of 
the next Working Session, but several new features will be 
added, and many who have not been with us before promise 
their assistance. It gives me great pleasure to write that Hon. 
J. D. Cox, of Cincinnati, Ohio, has promised to take entire 
charge of photography in its application to microscopical re- 
search. 
Prof. D. 8. Kellicott, of Buffalo, N. Y., assisted by Prof. T. 
B. Stowell, of Cortland, N. Y., will have charge of a dredging 
expedition on Lake Chautauqua. 
