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Prof. Lester F. Ward, President of and representing- 

 the Anthropolog-ical Society of Washing-ton. 



Dr. William B. French, Representing the Medical So- 

 ciety of the District of Columbia. 



Hon. Gardiner G. Hubbard, President of and repre- 

 senting- the National Geographic Society. 



Mr. C. L. Marlatt, Assistant Entmologist, U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, representing the Entomological 

 Society. 



Dr. Ch. Warden Stiles, Zoologist, U. S. Bureau of Ani- 

 mal Industry, representing the Biological Society of Wash- 

 ington. 



The members of this committee will be glad to receive 

 and transmit any funds that may be raised. They supply 

 subscription blanks, which when filled will be forwarded 

 to Paris for preservation. 



American Microscopical Society. — The nineteenth an- 

 nual meeting of the American Microscopical Society was 

 held at Pittsburg, on August 18, 19, 20, 1896, under the 

 presidency of A. C. Mercer, of Syracuse. An address of 

 welcome was delivered by Dr. W. J. Holland, chancellor 

 of the Western University. Among the papers read were 

 the following: "Comparative Histology," by Prof. Edith 

 J. Claypole; "Courses in Histology and Methods of Con- 

 ducting them," by Prof. S. H. Gag-e, of Ithaca; "Photo- 

 micrography by the Use of an Ordinary Objective Prac- 

 tically Considered, with Specimens of Work," by Thomas 

 J. Bray, of Warren, O. "On Astronomical Photog-raphs, 

 with Photomicrographic Apparatus," showing pictures 

 of a partial eclipse of the sun taken on an eight-inch focus, 

 by President Mercer: "The Antivivisectiou Bill," by 

 Pierre A. Fish, of Chicago; The Acetylene Lights as Ap- 

 plied to Photomicroscopy," by William H. Walmsley, of 

 Chicago ; What is the Best Method of Teachings Micro- 

 Science in Medical Schools? by Dr. Vida A. Latham, of 

 Chicago; "The Structure of the Teeth and Spines of Some 

 Fossil Fishes, Mazada and Ctena Canthus," by Prof. E. 

 W. Claypole, of Akron, O. ; "The Development of the 



