The Mickoscope. 383 



Bacilli in Salt "Water. — This is the title of an extremely dubious 

 report of Assistant Surgeon J. J. Kinyoun, U. S. M. H. S., which is 

 going the rounds of the medical press, that purports to show the 

 infection of the water of the Lower Bay of New York with cholera 

 germs from Hoffman's Island, or by the choleraic discharges of 

 patients detained there or on board the cholera ships anchored in the 

 Lower Bay last summer. 



That salt-water bacilli may be found in the waters anywhere in 

 the harbor of New York at any time is highly probable, when we 

 take into consideration the thousands of tons of sewage discharged 

 therein daily; but that cholera bacilli have been discovered among 

 the host of scavengers of the bacilli kind always to be found under 

 such circumstances is too far-fetched for reasonable belief. — The 

 Sanitarian. 



NEWS AND NOTES. 



A MONUMENT to Cohuheim, the distinguished microscopist, has 

 been unveiled at Leipsic. 



Watermelons, which are now in season, furnish a ready and 

 excellent material for the study of karyokinesis in vegetable cells. 

 The various parts of the ripe core will, if properly treated and 

 examined, give views of the entire process. — National Druggist. 



Instead, therefore, of the demons which were once thought to 

 be the cause of disease, and to require to be exorcised ; and instead 

 of the almost equally imaginary vital spirits and humors which 

 succeeded to the demons when they were discredited, the patient 

 microscopist traces and makes known the life-histories of the minute 

 organisms which he demonstrates to be the causes of many diseases. 

 * * — Maudsley. 



A MICROSCOPICAL society has just been formed in Italy, the 

 transactions of which will publish the papers presented at its 

 meetings in the language in which the latter are written — Latin, 

 Italian, French, German and English. 



The June number of the Microscopical Bulletin contains an 

 excellent portrait of the late Joseph Zentmayer. 



