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The University of Kansas has dedicated Snow Hall for the nse 

 of the natural histoiy department. 



S. Brodeux, of Paris, has gone to Montreal to establish a per- 

 manent home and introduce in America the methods by which 

 Pasteiu' cures or prevents hydrophobia. — Medical and Surgical 

 Gazette. 



The Western Microscopical Club, of London, Eng., recently met 

 at the house of Frank Crisp, Esq., the distinguished Secretary of 

 the Royal Microscopical Society. The vast collection of antique and 

 modern microscopes were exhibited by the host, who gave a most in- 

 teresting talk, descriptive of the instruments. 



Dr. H. G. Beyer, U. S. N., has been verifying and studying the 

 researches of Hueppe and Lister on the microbe of lactic acid fer- 

 mentation, which he thinks has to do with the souring of milk; 

 while Lauvent, of Belgium, has been studying the microbe of bread 

 fermentation, called bacillus panificus. — Bot. Gazette. 



The German Gesellschaft filr Anthropologie has appointed a 

 hair commission, for the study of hair in its anthropological relations. 

 The examination of hair for this purpose involves considerable 

 labor, but it is important work which may be carried on by any 

 microscopist who will take the trouble to collect the hair of different 

 races of men. The particular features to be considered, macroscopic 

 and microscopic, are given in the society's publication — Am. Mo. 

 Micro. Jour. 



Prof. T. B. Stowell, of Cortland, N. Y., has recently pm-chased 

 a palfeontological collection of over 10,000 specimens. The col- 

 lection is valued at $3,500, and is one of the most complete of its 

 kind in the country. This, with Prof. Stowell's prior collection, 

 makes one of the largest private collections of its kind. 



A FACT too little recognized by the journals of microscopy gen- 

 erally, is that microscopy is an adjunct to scientific research, and not 

 strictly a science in itself — a means and not an end. Too much 

 space is given to beautiful objects, the ways of making beautiful 

 mounts, and generally to the pleasant ways of whiling away time 

 with a microscope, and too little to the serious use of the instrument 

 as a means of research in mineralogy, vegetable and animal histology 

 and various other departments of science. — Pacific Record, med. 

 and pJiar. 



