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Notwithstanding these obstacles, the few Americans who have 

 devoted their energies to experimental pathology and bacteriology 

 have shown themselves capable of work of the highest order. 

 Witness the experiments of Prudden, Wood, Formad, Sternberg 

 and others. 



The conditions here, however, are now undergoing rapid 

 change. The principal medical colleges of the country have 

 established, by their own efPorts or through the munificence of the 

 friends of higher education, laboratories thoroughly equipped to 

 teach the undergraduate practical pathology, and to carry on 

 advanced experimental research. Each of the four large schools of 

 New York and Brooklyn, Harvard, Yale, the Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity, now have ample laboratory facilities. The University of 

 Michigan has imported an eminent teacher. Dr. Heneage Gibbes, 

 and with the well-equipped laboratory it possesses, will enter the 

 contest for supremacy with the Eastern institutions. Other provin- 

 cial colleges must of necessity soon follow, and in a few years every 

 medical graduate will have had an opportunity to study practical 

 pathology under a competent teacher. Then the conditions of 

 medical education here will approach more nearly those of the 

 continent of Europe. With equal opportunities, American students 

 will not long remain in the rear. 



Then again, there is a change in the nature of the study of 

 pathology. Before the development of bacteriology, microscopical 

 study dwelt almost entirely with the results of disease, while now it 

 searches for the cause. The eminently practical American mind can 

 see the utility of such study in the problems of the prevention and 

 cure of disease, and will enter into it with enthusiasm. We can 

 confidently assert that experimental pathology has a brilliant 

 future in America. 



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THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MICROSCOPISTS. 



Champaign, Ills., March 8th, 1888, 



HE eleventh annual meeting of this Society will be held at 

 Columbus, Ohio, August 14-17, 1888. The invitation comes 

 from the young and vigorous State Microscopical Society of Ohio, 

 Dr. H. J. Detmers, President. 



There has been, during some months, quite a contest between 

 our friends in their different places, over the meeting for 1888, and the 

 final vote of the executive committee has just designated Columbus as 



