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In fact we never read an article equal to it in this line, yet to those 
who are acquainted with the circumstances, the answer comes, “ no 
article can be written severe enough to meet such cases.” 
Although it has taken nearly six years of waiting to do it, we 
now present to our Japanese editor the instance quoted above. 
Will he now declare that even the Royal Journal is unscientific 
and unworthy of notice? We shall await with interest his decis- 
ion. 
These closing days of our editorial work are indeed days of 
peace and comfort; for even our most bitter enemy must acknowl- 
edge the justice of our course and ascribe to us victory at last. 
erOCEE DINGS OF SOCIETIES: 
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MICROSCOPISTS. 
S. M. MOSGROVE, M. D. 
O the pilgrim of microscopy, arriving at Lakewood, wearied 
from his days hot, dusty car-ride, the realization of an 
hour’s ride on the boat up Lake Chautauqua, was refreshing, the 
ripples reflecting the moon’s rays in silvery sheen, thus delighting 
and soothing both eye and ear, with a feeling of rest and quiet and 
preparing one with pleasant anticipations of the morrow. 
Chautauqua, with its wide-spread reputation, its temples of 
learning, situated amid sylvan groves, thus offering ample oppor- 
tunities of communing with nature, seemed a fit place for a meet- 
ing of microscopists. 
So when on Tuesday afternoon, August 10th, the President, 
Prof. Burrill, announced the opening of the ninth annual session 
of the American Suciety of Microscopists, there was an attendance 
of fully one hundred enthusiastic members at the “ Children’s 
Temple.” 
In view of the importance of the subject, “ Detections of Adul- 
terations of Butter,” and the presence of Dr. Thos. Taylor, of 
Washington, and Prof. B. A. Weber, of Ohio State University, the 
executive committee had decided that the entire afternoon should 
be devoted to its discussion. 
Prof. Weber opened the discussion with a paper entitled “ Mi- 
