The Microscope 



AND ITS RELATION TO 



Medicine and Pharmacy. 



VOL. II I 



WHOLE NO. 8. f 



Ann Arbor, June, 1882. 



No. 2. 



CONTENTS. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 

 The History of the Microscope and its 

 Accessories. By J. W. Crumbaugh, 



M D 33 



Bone in the Eye. By H. Gifford 38 



Uric Acid. By C. H. Stowell, M. D. . . 40 



SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS. 



Camden Microscopical Society 42 



Griffith MicroscopiCwil Club of Danville 44 



The Buffalo Microscopical Club 45 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Soiree of the Elmira Microscopical So- 

 ciety 46 



American Society of Microscopists 47 



Letter from Dr. Morrison 48 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT 50 



SELECTIONS 55 



ITEMS 61 



REVIEWS 63 



#ri§imEl i'^mixvannimtl^us. 



THE HISTORY OF THE MICROSCOPE AND ITS ACCES- 

 SORIES. 



BY J. \V. CRUMBAUGH, M. D. 

 FIRST PAPER. 



MY apology for presenting this series of articles to the readers of 

 The Microscope exists in the deplorable ignorance of the 

 great majority of microscopists of the facts herein contained. 



"The history of the microscope like that of nations and arts 

 has had its brilliant periods, when it has shown with uncommon 

 splendor and been cultivated with extraordinary ardor; these have 

 been succeeded by intervals marked with no discovery and in which 

 the science seemed to fade away or at least lie dormant, till some 

 favorable circumstance, the discovery of a new object or some im- 

 provement in the instrument reawakened attention and animated re- 

 searches.'" Dr. Priestley says in excuse for the production of his work, 



' George Adams Jr., "Essays on the Microscope" 1787. 



