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CORRESPONDENCE. 



Santa Barbara, California, Oct. 22, 1896. 



An importer of Japanese g-oods occupying" a store in the 

 same building- with me bring-s much of his goods wrapped 

 in the grasses of the section where they are originally 

 packed. Finding- some which he assured me was from 

 Nagoya in central Japan I made an infusion of it from 

 which in three or four days I beg-an to g-et infusorial forms 

 which were familiar to me, amongst which some of which 

 were of the following g-enera: viz: Colpidium (Schrank), 

 Litonotus (Ehr), Oxytricha (Wzr), Paramecium (Ehr), 

 Euplotes (Stein). 



In due time other familiar g-enera may be found. In the 

 absence of text-books I cannot undertake to determine 

 species. 



There are many other forms among-st which there may 

 be some that are new, but my literature in this department 

 of natural history is too far away to avail me here. 



P. L. Hatch. 



Acknowledgement. — The cuts of the scale insect pub- 

 lished in our last issue, were loaned to us by the Depart- 

 ment of Ag-riculture throug-h the kindness of Mr. L. O. 

 Howard, the Entomolog-ist. We reg-ret that the acknow- 

 ledgment did not accompany the publication. — Chrysan- 

 themum. 



Assistant Microscopist Wanted. — The United States 

 civil service commission held an examination at the post 

 ofl&ces in Boston, Mass., Indianapolis, Ind., and Chicago, 

 111., on October 30 for the position of assistant microscopist. 

 The salary of the position is S600 per annum, and only 

 women above the age of twenty were admitted to the 

 examination. The subjects of the examination were as fol- 

 lows: Orthography, penmanship, copying, letter writing 

 and arithmetic. It is desirable that applicants should 

 have a knowledge of the use of the microscope. 



