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ology in Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Clarke 

 University, Princeton and Johns Hopkins, and they may learn 

 something in favor of the despised German stands, and they 

 may learn of some of the many faults to be found in those 

 American makes with which "Amateur " is so deeply in love. 

 Certainly the test of a microscope is the work which can be done 

 with it, and I have never seen any work done with an American 

 stand and objectives which can compare with the work done in 

 America with the instruments of Zeiss, Leitz and Hartnack. 



Yours trul}"-. 

 University of Nebraska, J. S. Kingsley. 



Lincoln, Neb. 



Editor The Microscope : — 



There are two or three of the papers by " An Amateur " that 

 I have not seen, but those that I have read stamp the series as 

 the best practical information I have ever seen by any one and 

 the same writer. While there are some points upon which my 

 experience to a certain extent would differ, still as a consistent 

 whole the series is highly deserving of being published in book 

 form to be placed in the hands of students, be they beginners 

 or earnest workers. Yours truly, 



New Orleans, La. Geo. C. Taylor. 



Mohammed's favorite flower was the Narcissus, probably the 

 yellow daffodil, that grows abundantly in western Asia, and he 

 gave his followers this counsel : " Whoever has two loaves of 

 bread, let him trade one for a blossom of Narcissus ; for bread is 

 nourishment for the body, but the Narcissus is food for the soul." 



When, in protoplasm, the matter out of which the plant cell 

 is built up was discovered, it was believed we were nearing the 

 problem of the origin of life. But no one has ever made it any 

 clearer than before how life came to be given to even this pris- 

 tine, organic material. Dr Julius Wiesner now contends that 

 even protoplasm is made up of plasomes, and that the whole 

 mass of material is formed from the original plasome by division, 

 just as one cell is by division formed from another cell. Whence 

 the life in this original, minute and almost inconceivable plasome 

 is derived is as much a mystery as ever — The Independent. 



