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work. Of course this journal must receive help from you if from 

 anybody. This journal is the only one in the field particularly de- 

 voted to this branch of work. Therefore we ask of each of you, 

 who know already what the microscope can do, to devote a little 

 time and money to this matter and send us your subscriptions. You 

 must know of cases where your instrument has proved of the great- 

 est value; let such cases be known through our columns to your pro- 

 fessional brethren. We hope this "editorial brief" will bring us 

 returns exceeding any of our previous productions, and now that 

 our pen is in, we add, exceeeding all of our previous productions. 



THIS is only our third issue and yet we are so soon in trouble. 

 We presume, too, that we shall have the sympathies of a large 

 number upon their hearing the cause of our grief. You will find it 

 by referring to the April number of the Jndiana Medical Reporter 

 and reading an article, "How to mount the starches," which appears 

 without credit, as original matter, when the article was taken from 

 our first number, and written by one of the editors, after a year of 

 experimenting on the subject. But this is not so bad as it is to see 

 the article copied in microscopical journals giving said journal the 

 credit. 



Alas! Alas! How could you be so cruel to one so young ? 



NOW that the warm season is with us, bringing its usual discom- 

 fort and actual disease, we would call the attention of our pro- 

 fessional readers to a remedy which we have used in cholera 

 infantum with marked benefit. Physicians have reported in its 

 favor from every direction. We refer to Lactopeptine, the furnnila 

 of which can be found on our advertising page 17. 



YES ! Diatoms are not only "the best and most easily applied 

 tests for the microscope" as Mr. Petic(jlas informs us, but they 

 are also the most beautiful. Those prepared by Mr. Peticolas, at 

 Richmond, form a neat and beautiful series at a small expense. 



