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Bird Island pier, in Buffalo harbor. Now it has appeared on water 

 plants. 



Ophrydium versatile, reported at last meeting, has since been 

 found in large masses along the banks of the river. 



On Saturday last the green covering from the dripping rocks of 

 the old mill at the foot of Amherst street, upon the river, was scraped 

 away, and found to be composed almost entirely of scenedesimus 

 actitiis. The species of this genus are said by authors to occur in 

 water from bogs and ditches, usually. He also found in the same 

 gathering the varieties of this species, namely, S. obliquus and 

 S. dimorphus. 



It is worthy of note that OpJianochate repens occurs abundantly 

 on an CEdigoniuin which grows in a sulphur spring near Buffalo 

 Park. 



After the reporting of some other observations, of local rather 

 than general interest, the club adjourned. 



The November meeting of the Buffalo Microscopical Club was 

 held on the evening of the 14th. The order of business as 

 announced was a general exhibition of objects. 



The secretary, after reading the minutes of the last meeting, 

 called the attention of the members of the club to the importance of 

 subscribing to the journals devoted to microscopy, and mentioned 

 The Microscope, edited by Prof. C. H. Stowell, of Michiga:: Uni- 

 versity, as the one in which the reports of the society would be 

 published and urged the members to subscribe for it. The secre- 

 tary also announced that the topic for consideration at the next 

 meeting of the club would be^" Bacillus and its relations to tuber- 

 culosis," by Mrs. Dr. Moody. 



Prof. Kellicott gave a resume of the current microscopical 

 literature, bringing up the late paper by Prof. Haeckel on the 

 ''Protista.'" The views of Prof. Haeckel, he stated, were not gener- 

 ally upheld by the highest authorities on the subject of minute 

 life. Dr. W. B. Carpenter's statements regarding the standing of 

 American microscopists, viz.: "That they were now going over 

 ground which English microscopists had gone over forty years ago," 

 were brought up. These statements of Dr. Carpenter are unques- 

 tionably untruthful so far as his remarks relate to American 

 objectives, as in this respect the*Americans have been leading their 



