THE MICROSCOPE, 245 
The twelfth annual meeting of the Society is to be held at 
Buffalo, N. Y., a point easy of access from all parts of the country, 
August 20th to 23d. A large number of valuable papers have 
already been pledged. The working session is an assured success, 
and will combine certain new and original features, and at the soiree 
it is expected that more than three hundred objects will be shown. 
This latter exhibition will be given Thursday evening, August 22nd, 
at the spacious library rooms, where the collections of the Art, 
Historical and Natural Science Societies will also be thrown open to 
the public. 
Not only have the local committees shown themselves exceed- 
ingly active and in full sympathy and harmony with the A. S. M.’s 
work and aim in their arrangements for the scientific portion of the 
meeting, but they have also sought to combine the social with the 
intellectual, and have announced an afternoon upon the beautiful 
Niagara River, or a visit to the Falls, an hour’s ride by train from 
Buffalo. This diversion alone is worth a journey, and should prove 
attractive to a large number who have never as yet gazed upon this 
wonder of nature. Taken all in all, the coming meeting of the 
American Society of Microscopists bids fair to be the most success- 
ful ever yet held. 
It is to be hoped that the members will avail themselves of the 
rare treat offered, and will make every effort to be present during 
the four days’ session. 
For further information, the Chairmen of the various commit- 
tees may be addressed : 
George E. Fell, M. D., F. R. M. S., Chairman Exhibition 
Committee, 72 Niagara St. 
Stephen Y. Howell, M. D., Chairman Working Session, 164 
Franklin St. 
Louis A. Bull, M. D., Chairman Hotel Committee, 160 Frank- 
lin St., Buffalo, N. Y. 
All abstracts and titles of papers should be reported at once to 
Prof. T. J. Burrill, Champaign, Ill. 
AcKNOWLEDGMENTS.—-From Mr. F. W. Weir, Norwich, Conn., we 
have received two excellent photo-micrographs of type plates of 
diatoms mounted by Kimbéck, and belonging to Miss M. A. Booth. 
There are some 250 diatoms in each plate, and the details are 
remarkably well brought out. The apparatus used by Mr. Weir was 
home-made ; the illumination, a kerosene duplex burner. 
