THE MICROSCOPE. 



•f Hooke, Leuwenhoek and Ehrenberg are now. Let it then be the 

 cJuty of this society to encourage further effort on the part of our 

 microscope makers; to record their successes, and above all to make 

 such use of the products of their genius and skill, that the bound- 

 aries of knowledge may be enlarged, new facts discovered and old 

 ones reversed — and if the future student in turning over the pages 

 of our proceedings shall find there recorded the struggles and 

 triumphs of our working microscopists, then this society will not 

 kave existed in vain. 



Professor McCalla, as secretary of the committee on quarterly 

 journal, then submitted the following report: 



The executive committee, having heard and considered the 

 report of its sub-committee, appointed to consider the question of 

 the advisability of establishing a quarterly journal, beg to make the 

 following recommendations: 



1. That it is not advisable to establi.sh a separate and inde- 

 pendent journal. 



2. That for the present no change in the method of publishing 

 the proceedings should be made. 



Dr. Mercer then reported the following ticket from the cora- 

 Mittee on nominations: 



(OFFICERS. 



For President — Prof. Albert McCalla, of Fairfield, Iowa. 

 First Vice-President — E. H. Griffith, of Fairport, N. Y. 

 Second Vice-President — George C. Taylor, of Louisiana. 

 [Secretary Kellicott and Treasurer Fell holding over.] 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



ri. F. Atwood, of Rochester, N. Y.; Dr. L. M. Eastman, of 

 Baltimore, Md.; Dr. F. N. Newcomer, of Indianapolis, Ind. 



Prof. McCalla and Mr. Griffith returned their thanks for the 

 konor thus conferred upon them, amid hearty applause. 



Dr. M. L. Holbrook, of New York city, then read his paper 

 upon "The Terminations of the Nerves in the Liver." As the 

 outcome of three years' patient investigation in this field it came 

 with the force of authority and carried with it full conviction. The 

 doctor states that the nerve fibrils terminate not in the cells,accord- 

 ing to Pflueger, but in the walls of the capillaries, according to 

 Nesterowsky, whose discoveries are at every point corroborated 



