146 THE MICROSCOPE. 



SIXTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN 

 MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY. 



HELD AT MADISON, WIS., AUG. 14 AND 15, 1893. 



Monday, August 14, 1893. 



The American Microscopical Society held the first session of 

 its annual meeting in science hall, at University of Wisconsin, 

 commencing at 10 o'clock. The attendance was small, owing 

 partly to the attractions of the World's fair, partly to the fact 

 that most of the members reside east of the Alleghanies. The 

 following new members were elected : Miss Edith J. Claypole, 

 Akron, 0. ; Henry C. Bennett, New York City ; James C. Greg- 

 ory, Nyack on Hudson, N. Y. ; Herman Schrenck, New York 

 City; Agnes Winslow Foster, Brewster, Mass.; Dr. Wra. H. 

 Knap, Chicago, 111. ; John H. Madden, Chicago, 111. ; B. N. 

 Werum, Toledo, O. ; John D. Locke, Haverhill, N. H, 



The society voted to publish 500 copies of its proceedings 

 next year. The committee on universal screw reported pro- 

 gress and was continued. It was also voted to add abstracts of 

 American microscopical work to the proceedings. The local 

 committee gave an invitation to an excursion on Lake Mendota 

 Tuesday evening, which was accepted. It was decided not to 

 give a soiree this year. In the afternoon the society listened to 

 an elaborate description by Prof. W. S. Miller, of Wisconsin 

 University, of the methods of reconstruction of the lung from 

 thin serial sections, many hundreds of which are made about 

 two-hundreths of a millimeter or one twelve-thousandth of an 

 inch in thickness, and sheets of wax one-twelfth of an inch thick 

 or 100 times as thick, which are cut out like the sections, only 

 100 times as large, and are piled on one another till a part of a 

 lung is modeled on a scale 100 times the size of the actual or- 

 gan. Thus the real construction is made much more familiar 

 to the mind of the student. Other organs may be made in the 

 same way, 



In the evening at S o'clock, the members of the association 

 met in the assembly chamber of the capitol with a goodly num- 

 ber of Madisonians. Short addresses of welcome were made b} 7 

 Mayor Corscot on behalf of the city, General Lucius Fairchild, 

 chairman of the local committee and President C. K. Adams on 

 behalf of the university. Hon. J. D. Cox, introduced them. 



