62 The Microscope. 



text books on botany are familiar to every school-child in the country. 

 His great intellect, and genial disposition, made him beloved of 

 all with whom he came in contact; and though ripe and full of years 

 —and having seen the flower of his labors rewarded with abundant 

 fruition — the harvest was not yet ripe for the reaper, and in his 

 death, not only America, but the whole civilized world, will mourn 

 a friend — and Science, one of her truest and worthiest disciples. 



Acknowledgments. — From E. S. Coutant, Hawk's Park, Fla., a 

 fine slide of Gorgonia spicules from east coast of Florida ; from Fr. 

 Dienelt, Melvin, 111., fine mount of spiracles of Copris ; from Dr. 

 E. Cutter, a photograph of himself examining blood with a y^^ 

 objective, one-inch eye-piece, by direct light of paraffin candle ; 

 from Dr. H. J. Detmers, photo- microgi'aph of A. pellucida, taken 

 with a Spencer homog., ims. j\, with "plumb central light." This, 

 although excellent, is hardly as satisfactory as those mentioned in 

 our December number. 



BOOK REVIEWS. 



Wounds, their Aseptic and Antiseptic Management, by David Prince, 

 M. D.. Jacksonville, Fla. Reprint. 



The R.\dical Treatment of Trachoma, by A. E. Prince, M. D. Reprint. 



Report on Progress in Medicine, by J. B. Marvin, M. D. Reprint. 



Progressive Muscular Atrophy, Beginning in the Legs, by J. B. 

 Maivin, M. D. Reprint. 



The Indebtedness of Photography to Microscopy, by A. Clifford 

 Mercer, M. D. Reprint. 



Practical Notes on Urinary Anai.ysis, by W. B. Canfield, A. M., M. D. 

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The Study of the Causes and Treatment of Uterine Displacements, 

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Cyclopedia of American Contemporary Biography. Abbe to Anderson. 

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The Moss Engraving Co., and others', Calendars. 



The Tongue and Gustatory Organs of Mephitis Mephitica, by Fred- 

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Ormsby MacKnight Mitchell, Astronomer and General. A Bio- 

 graphical Narrative, by his son, F. A. Mitchell. Boston and New York : 

 Uoughton, Mifflin & Company. Detroit: John MacFarlane. 



This is a very well written and interesting narrative of the 

 life and scientific and military services of General Mitchell. The 

 author has, as much as possible, given General Mitchell's own 

 words. General Mitchell's military career, as cadet, lieutenant, and 

 later as a corps commander during the war, throws an exceedingly 

 interesting side light upon many army facts. His career was cut 

 short before any great opportunity came to him. 



As an astronomer, as the founder of the Cincinnati observatory 



