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Phenomena are facts. What may be said about them won't 

 alter them. My explanations, which you are pleased to call 

 " indescribable twaddle," has nothing whatever to do with 

 Nature's facts, or laws, or powers by which they are evolved. 

 Please show the fallacy of this doctrine. ' 



Yours &c. in the cause of science, 

 •Minneapolis, Minn. George Davis. 



Editor The Microscope : — 



From reading the extract from the New York Medical Jour- 

 nal in the December number of The Microscope, it occurs to 

 me that it ma}' be of interest to record the fact that the trout 

 of the Adirondack resrion of New York are more or less in- 

 fected with intestinal worms (not angle worms). I have b}^ me 

 as I write, a specimen taken from a large trout at Albau}' Lake, 

 Hamilton count3% in July, 1817. The worm was alive and 

 sprightly- at the time of capture, and was found in the'intestine 

 below the stomach. Respectfully, 



Buffalo, N. Y. Herbert M. Hill, Ph. D. 



ITCAS 



The German government is steadil}^ on the lookout to increase 

 the chances of scientific research. Heligoland, the latest peace- 

 ful conquest of German}^ will be made a chief station for biolo- 

 gical investigation. This is all the more to be welcomed, as 

 England, the prior mistress of Heligoland, has in no way utilized 

 the favorable location of the island' for the study of sea-life. 

 This is the first German zoological station maintained by the 

 government, for the station of Professor Dohrn, at Naples, is a 

 private one, and is merely subsidized by the Prussian State. — 

 Therapeutic Gazette. 



Dr. Charles M. Cresson, of Philadelphia, states that he has 

 more than once found the typhoid bacilli in the juice that he has 

 squeezed from celery grown near Philadelphia. — Annals of 

 Hygiene, 



