36 THE MICROSCOPE. [February. 



RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 



Lc MicrograpJie Preparateur. — A monthly journal. Vol. I. 

 Xo. i. January, 1S93. J. Tempere: Paris. 



Our friend Tempere, of Paris, has just commenced a micro- 

 scopical magazine of the same size as The Microscope. As it is 

 published in French, we are sorry to think that but few copies 

 will be taken in the United States. Those microscopists, how- 

 ever, who read French are invited to send to us for a sample copy 

 and to subscribe. 



The contents for January are as follows : 



1. Editorial announcement, 1 page — the editor. 



2. Technique of Preparations, 3pp. — Tempere. 



3. Cryptogamic maladies of cultivated plants (I. The grape 



vine), 5pp. — Dutertre. 



4. The genus Vaucherai, 2pp. — M. L. Dupray. 



5. Adulterations (I. Of pepper), 4pp. — A. Deros. 



6. Correspondence, Exchange, etc., 1 page. 



The second, third, and fourth articles are illustrated. In all, 

 twelve figures are presented and grouped in one lithographed 

 plate. 



Mr. Tempere has granted us permission to translate articles for 

 our Journal, which we shall occasionally do. He speaks and 

 writes remarkably good English himself, and has been much 

 amused by some American translations that have been made of 

 his articles in Pe I) 7 'a to miste during 1S91 and 1S92. 



The price of Pe Alicrographe Preparateur is $3.00 per year. 

 Subscriptions will be received by us at $2.75 — club rate. 



7 he ^Microscopical Exa?ninat ion of Potable Water. — By Geo. 



W. Rafter. D. Van Nostrand Company, N. Y. : 1S92. 



Price. 50 cents. i6mo, 160pp. 

 This little hand-book belongs to the Van Nostrand Science 

 Series (No. 103) and is based upon a paper published several 

 months since in the Microscopical Journal. There have been 

 added some valuable tables, a diagram, and a classified list of 

 150 books, journals, and micellaneous papers bearing upon the 

 subject. The 19 classes are as follows : Water in its chemical, 

 biological, and sanitary relations (51 titles) ; general botany (3) ; 

 cryptogamic botany (2) ; fresh-water algas (5) ; desmids (3) ; 

 diatoms (5) ; fungi (6) ; general zoology (3) ; microscopical 

 Crustacea (3) ; rotifers (2) ; polyzoa (3) ; infusoria (3) ; rhiz- 

 opods (1) ; sponges (4) ; general physics (3) ; light and its 

 relations (3) ; optics (5) ; the microscope and microscopical 

 technology (25) ; miscellaneous, biology, etc. (20). 



