10 • The Mickoscope. 



following anecdote is told of the professor's thorough attention by an 

 eminent specialist. Being called up early one snowy December 

 morning, he met the tall form of the professor striding through the 

 snow on his way down town from his residence, which is situated 

 some distance from the business center. In response to an inquiry 

 as to what on earth brought him out at such an hour, and in such 

 weather, he stated that " last night in thinking over the reading of 

 a proof that is being published for -the American Society of Micros- 

 copists, I remembered to have failed to see to the position of a comma 

 in one of the sentences. I am on my way to the printer's to be sure 

 of this, as it makes some difference in the meaning of the sentence."' 

 This illustrates, and is the key, to the professor's popularity and 

 siiccess. 



Possessed of a rugged frame, and with an enormous capacity 

 for hard work, and an untiring industry, there is little that has been 

 left undone by him in general scientific study that is necessary to a 

 thorough scientific training. He is one of the believers in evolution 

 that have retained their belief in the Christian religion, which position 

 he has worthily sustained in many sharp debates. 



At the tenth annual meeting, held in Pittsburgh, he was elected 

 president of the American Society of Microscopists — an honor which 

 has been well merited by his painstaking work as secretary and editor 

 of the annual volume of the society's proceedings for the past six 

 years. 



He was graduated at Genesee College, now Syracuse Univer- 

 sity, in the class of 1869, at which institution he has since earned the 

 degree of Ph. D. on examination. 



He is a Fellow of the American Societ}^ for the Advancement of 

 Science, and has been President of the Entomological Club of that 

 society. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



THE SAN FEANCISCO MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY. 



THE regular meeting of this Society was held October 12, 

 1887, President Ferrer in the chair. 

 A letter was read from Isaac C. Thompson, F. R. M. S., of Liv- 

 erpool, England, concerning the announcement that interesting 

 Sandwich Island material will come into possession of the San Fran- 

 cisco Society. Mr. Thompson desires to secure material for the study 

 of minute crustaceans, a special line of investigation which he has 



