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24 THE MICROSCOPE. 
NEWS AND NOTES. 
Mr. E. W. D. Hotway, in the Swiss Cross, replying to one wbo 
complained that there was very little use for the microscope during 
the winter months, said some time spent in collecting through the 
other seasons would have furnished beautiful objects in abundance. 
There is never a time when the microscope need be put aside 
for lack of material. The yellow dust in the heart of a flower, a 
drop of stagnant water, the window garden, in fact the whole world, 
An summer and winter, teems with invisible forms. Let no one feel 
discouraged and put aside the microscope. 
Dr. F L. James, in National Druggist, says: A beautiful red 
stain for vegetable sections may be extracted from the parings of 
wine-sap and other red apples, by absolute alcohol. The paring of a 
single medium-sized apple gives about 1 drachm of avery deep 
raby-colored solution. The writer has experimented but little with 
the stain, but can say that it is apparently stable. Reasoning from 
analogy, we should say that light will not bleach it. 
Ercuorst says that the demonstration of tubercle bacilli is 
decisive, for they occur in the sputa of no other disease. 
Dr. Vincenzo Tassinari, of the Pisa University, has experi- 
mented with the effects of tobacco-smoke on bacteria. He finds that 
delay in development of the germs occur in every instance. 
A zootoeicaL laboratory has been opened at Ostend. Four 
Belgian universities will contribute to its support. 
Wipmark’s experiments with the bacteria of various diseases of 
the eye, etc., resulted negatively, although fresh material, and that 
from cultures, were inoculated into the eyes of healthy rabbits. 
Even in those cases where there was a lesion of the surface, no more 
than a slight superficial disturbance took place. 
THEopoRE GILL says that science is a, goddess who is rich in 
attributes, and ready to reward her worshipers, but coy in her gifts. 
She is generous only to those who worship at her shrine in sincerity 
and truth, and who supplement their prayers by continual labor and 
deeds. 
THe microscopical anatomy of the common cedar apple 
(Gymnosporangium macropus) has been investigated by Elmer 
Sanford (Botanical Laboratory, University of Michigan), the results 
of which appear as a paper in the February Annals of Botany.— 
American Naturalist. 
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