130 Tue Microscope. 
“Tt is by a complex and a beautiful series of delicate activ- 
ities in the nucleus that the wonderful act of fission is initiated 
and in all probability carried to the end.” 
‘In thus coming closer to the delicate phenomena of nu- 
clear activity, we of course come no nearer to the solution of 
what life zs. That is no part in the question. But tocome any 
distance nearer to a knowledge of how the most living part of 
the minutest organisms in nature acts in detail, has for me, and 
for most biologists, an increasing fascination.” 
The above brief extracts convey but a slight idea of this 
admirable address on The Cell Nucleus. We clip the following 
from an exchange :— 
“The last number of the Journal of the Royal Microscop- 
ical society contains the annual address of the President of the 
society, Rev. W. N. Dallinger, LL. D., and also an excellent 
portrait of that gentleman. Few men have accomplished so 
much in the more difficult lines of microscopical investigation 
as Dr. Dallinger, or are-better fitted to hold the honorable place 
he holds at the head of English working microscopists. The 
address deals mainly with his own researches on the cell nucleus 
as he has observed its development and changes in septic organ- 
isms. The investigations which he details are of the most dif- 
ficult character, and require the very highest and best powers of 
the microscope, as well as the most consummate skill in its use. 
These and the investigations of the nucleus, in which recent 
German microscopical literature is so fruitful, clearly prove that 
the nucleus is the most living part of the organism, that it is 
preeminently in this part of the cell that the life resides. In 
investigating it the scientist is peering into the very citadel of 
life, and although he may be getting no nearer to the solution of 
the problem of what life is, the study is nevertheless one which 
possesses extreme fascination.” 
THE FAKIR AND HIS LITTLE FAKES. 
MAN is passing around, charging $5 for the following: Cut- 
ting, boring and fileing glass. For cutting, with a few 
sweeps of a file make a nick in the top side at the edge of the 
glass to be cut. For plate glass use a half inch round iron two 
