THE MICROSCOPE. ott 
they have been thrown into larger ones by the removal of walls. 
The small rooms are used for special work, and particularly for 
advanced students. These rooms have oak tables of solid construc- 
tion standing near the center, and at these the work is done for the 
most part. A low table runs just under the window, attached to 
the wall. There are glass cases against the wall in the back part of 
the room, and in these various kinds of apparatus and glassware 
are kept for use. The larger rooms are used by beginners. Here 
long oak tables of quite rough construction are used. These stand 
directly upon the floor, and no attempt is made to guard against 
jarring in any other way than by the weight of the tables them- 
selves, 
The microscopes are of the usual continental forms. 
At Berlin, Schwendener has rooms in the second story of a 
building which appears to have been built for some other purpose 
than of serving for a botanical laboratory. Small and large rooms, 
with little or no economy of arrangement, are used for offices, 
private laboratories, laboratories for students, and laboratories for 
beginners. One of these rooms nearest to the professor’s study 
looks southward, some look westward, some eastward. There is 
little, if any, north light. The use of large tables in the interior 
of the room, standing on the ordinary floor, is a marked feature 
here, as in the preceding laboratories. Side tables against the wall 
are found in most of the rooms, but the greater part of the work is 
done at the floor tables. The microscopes are practically like those 
in Leipzig and Strassburg. Culture apparatus and facilities for 
maintaining constant temperature are amply provided. Books are 
at hand, and apparently consulted freely. 
University or NEBRASKA. 
WILLIAM JERAULD LEWIS, A. M., M. D., F. R. M.S., 
PRESIDENT AMERICAN SOCIETY OF 
MICROSCOPISTS. 
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F, L. JAMES, M. D. 
N selecting the writer to prepare a biographical sketch to accom- 
pany the portrait of the president of the American Society of 
Microscopists, which is presented in this number of Tue Micros- 
copg, the editors of that journal have consulted the personal rela- 
tions which exist between the subject of the memoirs and the writer 
