THE MICROSCOPE. 79 



Excursion Committee — W. W. Eastabrook, chairman; F. E. 

 Fitch, Dr. T. A. Wales. L. T. Holmes, H. 15. Berry. 



Soiree Committee — T.. 1). Robinson, chairman; Prof. I>. R. 

 Ford, Dr. E. W. Krackowizer, Dr. Thos. Lucy, J. J. Emerson, Geo. 

 S. Whitmore. 



Other members of the society will be welcome at the meeting. 

 Come help us make arrangements for receiving the national socity 

 in a becoming manner. By order of the president. 



Th.\d. S. Up be Graff, Secretary. 



BUFFALO MICROSCOPIC CLUB. 



The regular monthly meeting of the Microscopical Society was 

 held Tuesday, May 9, at the Central School. Among those present 

 were Mr. Henry Mills, Mr. James W. Ward, Mr. F. Scott, Mr. 

 Brewer, Mr. Slocum, Miss Ada M. Kenyon, Dr. and Mrs. Kenyon, 

 Mr. Thomas Crawley, Mr. Harry Lewis. Miss Hall, Dr. AV. C. Bar- 

 rett, Dr. Geo. E. Fell, Dr. A. R. Wright, Dr. Lucien Howe, Dr. 

 F. S. Crego, Di. A. T. Sherman, Dr. Bull, and a number of others. 

 The President, Mr. Henry Mills, called the society to order, and Dr. 

 Fell acted as Secretary in the absence of Dr. Lee H. Smith. 



The name of Dr. Wm. H. Skicer was proposed, and Mr. Thomas 

 Crawley was elected to membership, after which Dr. W. C. Barrett 

 read an interesting paper on the " Broplassus Doctrine," being the 

 result of examinations made upon the structure of blood corpuscles 

 in conjunction with Dr. Fell and Prof. Kellicott. The question at 

 issue was the structure of the red and white blood corpuscle. Dr. 

 Heitzmann, of New York city, claims to have seen certain appear- 

 ances in the blood corpuscle — " a fibrillated network " — when 

 immerstd in a 50 per cent, solution of bi-chromate of potash. Dr. 

 Barrett said he had seen many of these appearances, and gave 

 illustrations of them on the blackboard. He also advanced some 

 new views relative to the granular motion inside the corpuscles. 



Dr. George E. Fell, who had worked with Dr. Barrett in these 

 observations, and manipulated the instrument, had not so far seen 

 anything corresponding to a fibrillated structure in the blood corpu- 

 scles. He rather claimed that the appearances observed confirmed 

 the prevalent theory of a granular formation to the white blood cor- 

 puscles. He gave the method of procedure in the examination of 



