1892.] THE MICROSCOPE. 191 



boxes has been, as usual, in some cases aggravated into a positive 

 nuisance by the gross neglect of two or three members ; and the 

 same has occasioned the loss of several boxes, either permanently 

 or for a whole season. It is often necessary to drop otherwise 

 valuable members because they neglect and break the rules so 

 badly that no circuit can live with them in it ; but unfortunately 

 we cannot know it until the harm has been actuallv done, nor can 

 w'e know which of the rules to emphasize by printing in letters of 

 fire, because we can't know by the breaking of which one, next, 

 another circuit or two will be wrecked. It may be absurd to hope 

 that people will do right, unless they should all be born again ; 

 but every member who receives anything wrong, however trivial, 

 should have it corrected at once. If a box be received insuffi- 

 ciently stamped, or badly enclosed or directed, or with stamp or 

 address on the wrapper, or with slides of other boxes mixed, or 

 with the tin box-cover orone. or with a slide with label missin^or 

 containing improper writing, or with more or less slides than ac- 

 cording to the note-book, or anyway wrong (we can't reprint the 

 whole rules !), write to the sender and have it corrected at once. 

 It is wrongs to forward anvthinnf that isn't riorht, and useless to 

 record in the note-book that "this slide ought to be traced and 

 found," instead of finding it. 



Finances. — The treasurer's books, which have been examined 

 and approved by the managers, show the following balances for 

 the Club year ending August i, 1S91 : 



RECEIPTS. DISBL'RSEMENTS. 



Balance on hand $14 32 Postage and stationery $76 60 



Entrance fees and dues 172 50 Supplies -7 50 



Printing 62 05 



Balance 20 67 



$186 82 $186 82 



The Fifteentli Annual Meeting of the American Microscopi- 

 cal Society.* 



By ROBERT W. SMILEY, 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



The American Microscopical Society, formerly the American 

 Society of Microscopists, held its fifteenth annual convention in 

 the city of Rochester, N. Y., August 9 to 12, inclusive. The 

 meetings were opened to the public and enough popular interest 

 was manifested to insure a goodly attendance. 



The opening meeting was held in Anderson Hall, on the Uni- 

 versity campus. 



* Abstracted from the American Monthly Microscopical yourval for September, 1892. 



