26 The Microscope. 



NEWS AND NOTES. 



M. Pasteur is said to be in such feeble health as necessitates 

 his confinement to the house. 



Change of Address. — Dr. James E. Reeves, foi'merly of Wheeling, 

 W. Va., has removed to Chattanooga, Tenn. 



Prof. Bessey adds the winged pig-weed [Cycloloma platyphyl- 

 lum) to the list of so-called "tumble-weeds." 



Mr. Nicholas Pike has recently prepared a list of the marine 

 algae collected from the shores of Staten Island. 



The Jahresbericht, edited by Baumgarten, for the year 1886, 

 contains abstracts of 533 papers relating to micro-organism. 



The death is announced, Nov. 6th, of Mr. Oscar Harger, who 

 was long an assistant under Prof. O. C. Marsh, at Yale College. 



Von Lendenfeld publishes in the Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 

 1886, a paper on the " Systematic Position and Classification of 

 Sponges." 



At a recent meeting of the Boston Society of Natural History, 

 Dr. Walter J. Fewkes read a paper on " A New Mode of Life 

 among Medusae." 



Dr. C. O. Whitman, in the American Naturalist, suggests the 

 yv oi'd planisher as a substitute for the compound and clumsy word sec- 

 tion-flattened, or section-smoothed. 



Another titled scientist is added to the list. The Emperor of 

 Austria has conferred upon M. Pasteur the decoration of the order 

 of the Iron Crown, with the title of Baron. 



The history of garden vegetables, by Dr. E. Lewis Sturtevant, 

 now running, in the American Naturalist, is a valuable contribution 

 to vegetable gardening. We hope to see it later in book form. 



Dr. Heneage Gibbes, of London, Eug., has been called to the 

 Chair to Pathology in the Medical Department of the University of 

 Michigan. Dr. Gibbes is a well-known histologist and bacteriologist. 



An important paper by Voglino, on the agaricini, appeared in 

 the July Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano. Microscopical measure- 

 ments and descriptions of the spores, basidia and sterigmata are 

 given. 



Mr. John A. Brashear, of Allegheny, Pa., gave a reception 

 recently at his works, to afford those interested an opportunity to 

 examine the large Star spectroscope designed and constructed for the 

 Lick Observatory, at Mt. Hamilton, California. 



