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NEWS AND NOTES. 



Dr. W. "W. Bailey advises the use of Le Page's glue in mount- 

 ing plants for the herbarium. 



GusTAV Robert Kieshooff, an eminent natural scientist and 

 discoverer of the spectroscope, is dead. 



The death of Dr. George Winter, editor of Hedwigia, is 

 announced as having occurred August 16. 



The Siviss Cross for October contains an admirable portrait 

 and sketch of the late Spencer Fullerton Baird. 



Pkof. Verneuil has been elected member of the Academie de 

 Science, Paris. He succeeds the late Prof. Gosselin. 



A. C. WiGHTMAN and H. V. AVilson are to fill the fellowships in 

 biology at John Hopkin's University for the coming year. 



The Journal of the New York Microscopical Society is now 

 published quarterly instead of in nine numbers yearly, as formerly. 



J. H. "Wtth, the author of The Mlcroscopist, a compendium of 

 microscopical science, read a valuable paper on " The Physiology of 

 Elementary Fibres" before the International Medical Congress. 



Dr. W. p. Manton has been appointed associate editor of the 

 Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences, with the subject histology 

 and microscopical technology as applied to medicine, assigned to him. 



Grant Allen, the well-known English scientific writer was born 

 on one of the Thousand Islands, and was taught the first rudiments 

 of higher education beneath the shadow of the elms at Yale College, 

 New Haven. 



The microscopical changes in Cirrhosis of thie Pancreas have 

 been found by Dr. Earle to consist of an increase of the connective 

 tissue, and a partial, in some cases a complete, crowding out of the 

 glandular elements. 



Dr. Carl Bunsen publishes in the August 20th Scientific Amer- 

 ican Supplement a valuable and exhaustive paper on "Microscopical 

 Researches into the cause, origin and propagation of Diphtheria." 

 The article is illustrated by nine drawings. 



