THE MICROSCOPE. 45 



THE BUFFALO MICROSCOPICAL CLUIi. 



The regular meeting for April was held on the second Tuesday 

 of the month. President Henry Mills in the chair. 



Dr. W. C. Barrett presented a paper upon "The Cell Dogma." 

 with a tabular review of the dates, names and publication of the 

 most important investigations. The theories and discoveries of 

 Schneider, Wolfe, Goodyear, Huxley, Todd, Bowman, Beale, Vir- 

 chow and other writers were detailed and considered. The paper 

 ended with the investigations of Heintzman and his conclusions 

 regarding the structure of protoplasm and the true nature of cells. 



The paper was warmly discussed and the investigations and 

 conclusions of Pleintzman questioned. The subject was finally laid 

 upon the table for discussion at the next regular sesison to await the 

 results of investigations then under way. 



Upon motion. Dr. Geo. E. Fell and Prof. D. S. Kellicott were 

 elected delegates to attend the soiree of the Elmira Mic. Society. 



Lee H. Smith, M. D., 



Secretary. 



Science and Consumption. — Prof. Tydall has made public in 

 England the results of experiments made by Dr. Koch, of Berlin, 

 on tubercular disease. It was known before that the disease was 

 communicable, but Koch has ascertained the exact nature of the 

 parasite which causes consumption. He propagated it artificially 

 and killed animals with parasites thus produced. The matter ex- 

 pectorated from the lungs of consumptive persons has been found 

 to be swarming with parasites which are highly infective. Tyndall's 

 object is to protest against legislation which prohibits in England 

 experiments such as enabled Koch to make these discoveries; but it 

 is hoped that Koch will develop a harmless form of the tubercular 

 parasite which, by inoculation, may prevent consumption, and thus 

 check a scourge which, according to Koch's calculation, carries off 

 one-seventh of the human race. — £x. 



