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things relating to microscopy, and because we feel that our pages 
are none too many to record these, we must in the future, jealously 
guard them from the encroachments of foreign matter. 
The advancement of science depends much on the harmony 
of its devotees, and we hope, in the future, no action of ours will 
create a disturbance of this necessary harmony. 
WE are constantly in receipt of letters from friends of this 
Journal who are kind enough to say pleasant things about us, and 
wish the new editorial staff abundant success in their efforts to 
make Tue Microscorre the best and cheapest publication of its 
kind in any land. Nothing is pleasanter for us than to receive just 
this kind of letters, and we hope that future mails will continue to 
bring us the same encouragement. We venture to suggest, how- 
ever, that our friends would do us a double service by sending us 
the names of their acquaintances who own microscopes, or are in 
any way interested in science or microscopy. 
One distinguished worker with the microscope writes us, “I 
always recommend your journal to such beginners,” and adds as 
postscript the names of some of his friends who should, he thinks, 
become subscribers. 
We hope that others will endeavor to emulate this LL. D.— 
and thus assist us in carrying out the idea above suggested. 
During the coming year we expect to publish articles from the 
pens of such well known writers as Dr. Alfred Stokes, Prof. A. Y. 
Moore, Dr. Frank L. James, Prof. Marshall D. Ewell, Prof. C. H. 
Stowell, and many others distinguished in the field of microscopi- 
cal research. 
So the outlook for the table of contents for 1887 is very tempt- 
ing. We hope that many to whom this Journal will be sent, who 
are not yet subscribers, will avail themselves of our offer, and send 
in their subscriptions at once. 
For the past two months, on account of the change in proprie- 
torship and the removal of our office of publication from Ann 
Arbor to Detroit, we have been unavoidably delayed in getting out 
our issues. We much regret this, and expect hereafter to appear 
on time. 
WE are much indebted to Dr. Geo. E. Fell, Treasurer of the 
