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close, the ever increasing business of the latter enterprising firm 

 renders it inexpedient for them to longer continue as the business 

 management of this journal. 



We desire on this occasion to express our thanks and apprecia- 

 tion for their eflPorts in behalf of The Microscope, and to wish them 

 success in their future business career. 



While the change in business management throws some 

 additional labor on the editorial staff, it will not in the least affect 

 the interests of Tpie Microscope, which for the coming year will be 

 better in every respect than ever before. A glance through the 

 index which accompanies this number, will convince the reader that 

 never was there so much valuable information relative to microscopy 

 crowded, into 384 pages. During the year we have published more 

 than 53 original articles, 50 abstracts, 14 editorials. 38 notes on 

 technology, besides innumerable news items, and reviewed over 50 

 books and pamphlets of interest to the general microscopist; while 

 the pages of The Microscope have been illustrated by 37 cuts and 

 7 full page plates. We have hitherto refrained fi'om speaking of 

 ourselves, but the eminent success met with by The Microscope 

 during the past year, and the hundi'eds of complimentary letters 

 received from all parts of the country, cau.se us to look back upon 

 1887 with pardonable pride and satisfaction. 



The past of this journal is a guarantee of its future success. If 

 there is any doubt of this, an examination of the prospects for 1888 

 will convince the most sceptical. Never in the history of any publi- 

 cation devoted to microscopical science has a finer array of talent been 

 displayed than may be found in the list of names of contributors 

 and cooperators for 1888. 



* Our premium list will be a surprise. The Microscope is worth 

 more than the money asked for it, but in order to increase its circu- 

 lation still further we are offering the slides to all who may desire 

 them. Having been prepared in The" Microscope Laboratory in 

 large quantities, it must not be expected that they will all have the 

 same exquisite finish as those advertised by specialists; but they are 

 all good, and many of them very fine and not to be excelled. 



