156 The Miceoscope. 



NEWS AND NOTES. 



If what the physical philosophers tell us, that our globe has 

 been in a state of fusion, and, like the sun, is gradually cooling 

 down, is true, then the time must come when evolution will mean 

 adaptation to a universal winter, and all forms of life will die out, 

 except such low and simple organisms as the diatom of the Arctic 

 and Antarctic ice, and the protococcus of the red snow. — Huxley. 



The director of the patho-biological laboratory of the Univer- 

 sity of Nebraska, Dr. Frank S. Billings, announces that, although 

 established entirely for investigation, the laboratory is to be made as 

 useful as possible to the country. Hence he offers its advantages 

 for purposes of instruction to boards of health, live-stock com- 

 missions and educational institutions — advantages which, he 

 thinks, are better than any others of the sort in the countiy. Only two 

 pupils can be accommodated at a time, and they must be medical or 

 veterinary graduates who have the endorsement of some such body 

 as those mentioned. The laboratory is situated at Lincoln. — New 

 York Medical Journal. 



The examination in microscopy passed by the graduating class 

 of the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, and published in the National 

 Druggist, is a model of its kind. We are certain of 51 Ph. G.'s 

 who know something of the ubq of the microscope. 



A FUND of $10,000 has been offered by the family Cabot of 

 Boston, the income of which is to be used as a salary for the path- 

 ologist of the Massachusetts general hospital. Dr. W. F. Whitney 

 of the medical school, has accepted the position, with title of Assis- 

 tant Pathologist. 



There are six claimants to the discovery of the cancer bacillus. 

 Germany has two, Italy two, France one and Brazil one. 



Seaman, of Howard University, Washington, has secured infor- 

 mation from more than twenty American colleges regarding the 

 kind of microscopes used and the results of wear. The answers 

 were, in a large majority, in favor of microscopes of American 

 manufacture. — Medical News. 



The Scientific American for March 17 contains a well-written 

 illustrated article on the Lick Obsei'vatory. 



Dr. W. G. Farlow contributes an elaborate sketch of the late 

 Prof. Asa Gray to the Botanical Gazette. 



