210 Tue Microscope. 
NEWS AND NOTES. 
Wantep.—No. 1, Vol. I, of THe Microscopr. Fifty cents paid: 
Dr. TayLtor made an able reply to Prof. Webster’s objections at 
the A. 8. M. meeting at Chautauqua. 
Pror. VircHow recently completed the thirtieth year of his 
occupancy of the chair of Pathological Anatomy in Berlin. 
FresH water lavae may be mounted in balsam, after having 
been thoroughly drained and then soaked for a month in clove oil. 
Ar the recent meeting of the A. S. M. held at Chautauqua, 
nearly every state in the Union was represented by an “ active” 
member. 
WE shall publish a full report of the Chautauqua meeting of 
the American Society of Microscopists next month. The manu- 
script arrived too late for insertion in this issue. 
Pror. WinutiamM A. Roacers, A. M., F. R. M.S, of the Harvard 
(Cambridge) Observatory, and the highest living authority on mi- 
erometry in the world, has been chosen to fill the chair of Physics 
at Colby University, Waterville, Me. 
TUBERCLE bacilli have been demonstrated in the large numb- 
ers in the supra-renal capsules in Addison’s disease. This discoy- 
ery goes to prove what has long been held by some writers that the 
lesion in this disease is a local tuberculosis. 
A. ANDREE claims that leaves transpire, not only water, but 
soluable salts, which have become superfluous for, their vital process ; 
and that this takes place especially through the water pores The 
chlorides of magnesium and sodium were found to be excreted in 
that way. 
Dr. Fritz MuELLER reports in Kosmos, an unique instance of 
an epiphytic orchid Aéranthus, which, though only consisting of 
roots and heads of small flowers, nourishes itself independently, 
since the long, much coiled roots contain chlorophyll, and thus 
act as leaves. 
Dr. N. TRINKLER adds chlorophyll to the already long list of 
vegetable stains. It is obtained from the leaves of the Syringa vui- 
garis by extracting for twenty-four hours with alcohol, evaporating 
the filtered extract to dryness and dissolving in water, The filt- 
rate is a dark green with a trace of brown in it. 
