THE MICROSCOPE. 77 



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ELMIRA MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY. 



The second annual meeting of the Ehiiira Microscopical Society 

 was held at the Surgical Institute last evening. The attendance 

 was very large, the late soiree having given a popular impetus to the 

 entrancing studies of microcosmic life and structure. Among 

 those elected to membership are Miss S. S. Eddy, and Messrs. 

 Jno. R. Joslyn, Fred. M. Chase, J. Monroe Shoemaker, Joseph J. 

 Emerson, Geo. S. Whitmore, W. C. Stewart, M. D., and J. B. Chand- 

 ler, of Philadelphia. 



The annual report read by the secretary presented a most grat- 

 ifying state of affairs, financially, socially and scientifically. 



Upon motion, Frank G. Hall svas instructed to cast one ballot 

 containing the names of S. O. Gleason, D. R. Ford and Thad. S. 

 Up de Graff for president, vice-president and secretary respectively. 

 By the unanimous re-election of these gentlemen to their third term 

 of oflfice, the society has paid its own good judgment the very best 

 compliment. 



Mr. Joslyn then delivered off-hand a very happily conceived 

 and wittily worded talk upon the "Germ Theory of Consumption." 

 Upon this topic the speaker " inoculated " quotations from Logan, 

 the stalwart, and from Lucille, the lithe and lissome — any- 

 thing short of a Jeremiade being germaine to a German germ 

 theory. Some "Jenneral" remarks were also offered concerning 

 vaccination, and the phylloxera was given a "pasteur," so to 

 speak. 



This iliscourse having put the audience into the happiest spirits, 

 Dr. Gleason described a particularly obnoxious and, in this neigh- 

 borhood as yet, fortunately, rare bug, the chrysonphalus ficus. This 

 little creature having been imported in dried fruit from China or 

 Australia, has become indigenous upon the apple and fig trees 

 of California, has already begun its ravages in the oranges of Flor- 

 ida, and was accidentally discovered upon an ivy plant lately pur- 

 chased in this city by Dr. Gleason, who minutely described it by 

 word and blackboard drawings, as well as on the leaf and under the 

 microscope. 



