82 the microscope. [June, 



the study of the infectious diseases, among our medical men. 

 The college has eighteen Bausch & Lomb stands with 3-4 and 

 1-6 objectives, and we are now training our students in (1) 

 use of microscope, (2) normal histology, (3) pathology, and 

 (4) bacteriology. 



Among the notable collections of miscellaneous microscopic 

 objects is that of Dr. Edward F. Hodges, especially rich in 

 rare slides of Dalland, and containing the best work of that 

 late enthusiast in diatom mounting ; also, that of Dr. Frisbie 

 Newcomer, who was a most faithful attendant of the Ameri- 

 can Association meetings up to the time of his lamented death. 

 I am told by Mr. E. H. Griffith that Dr. Hodge's collection 

 is the most valuable that it has been his privilege to examine. 



Researches on the pathology of the nervous system have 

 been made during the last ten years by Dr. W. B. Fletcher, 

 the well-known alienist and neurologist, assisted by Dr. Mary 

 E. Spink. Dr. Fletcher was the pioneer of microscope work 

 at Indianapolis. Dr. Joseph Stillson has charge of micro- 

 scopy in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of this city, 

 where they have six of Griffith's outfits. Dr. Stillson has 

 applied the microscope to general physiology and to his own 

 special field, the eye. The City Hospital has an outfit costing 

 S200, used in pathological research. The city High School 

 has a dozen compound glasses, and uses them in laboratory 

 work in the junior year. 



Professor O. P. Hay, the well-known herpetologist, popular- 

 ized the use of the microscope in biology in Butler University 

 at Irvington, two miles east of Indianapolis, where, for ten 

 years, he was the leading man, and an ornament to the faculty 

 of that institution. Excellent working outfits are possessed 

 in our city by the following physicians : Guido Bell, A. W. 

 Brayton, S. E." Earp, E. S. Elder, F. C. Ferguson, W. B. Flet- 

 cher, J. W. Hervey, Robert Hessler, E. F. Hodges, H. Jameson, 

 J. W. Marsee, F. A. Morrison, P. T. McShane, J. H. Oliver, 

 H. 0. Pantzer, Theodore Potter, G. W. Sloan, Sarah Stockton, 

 W. H. Wishard, J. A. Latchiffe, Joseph Eastman, F. C. Wood- 

 burn, and of course, some few others whose possession of 

 glasses I am not aware of. Several colleges, as Earlham, Han- 

 over and Moore's Hill, have laboratory outfits, but which, as 

 far as I know, have done no work known to the world, such as 

 has been done by Professor Jordan, the eminent icthyologist, 

 now president of Leland Stanford, Jr., University; President 

 John M. Coulter, first of American systematic botanists, now 

 president of our State University, and president-eleet of Lake 

 Forest University, Illinois; — by Professors Bowes, Arthur, 

 Stanley, Coulter, Kingsley and others. 



