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their term of office shall be one year and they shall be eligible 

 to re-election. 



The President is elected for two years and he is not eligible 

 lor immediate re-election. 



The other members of the Executive Council are also elected 

 for two years, one half are to be changed each year and they 

 can be immediately re-elected. 



THE MICROSCOPE 



New Series, 1893. 



For Naturalists, Physicians^ a fid Dniffffists, and Designed to Popularize 



Microscopy. 



Published monthly. Price $1.00 per annu7H. Subscriptions should end 

 \pith the year. The old series, consisting of 12 volumes (^iSSi-iSgs), ended 

 -vith December, i8gi. Sets of the old series catuiot be furnished. All 

 correspondence, exchanges, and books for ftotice should be addressed to (he 

 Microscopical Publishing Co., Washington, D. C, U. S. A. 



CHARLES W. SMILEY, A. M., EDITOR. 



EDITORIAL. 



A Lady Miscroscopist for 50 Years. — We have always 

 taken the ground that the microscope is peculiarly adapted to 

 the fair sex. We have always indulged the hope that among 

 American ladies the use of the microscope would be as common 

 as that of pianos, organs, and that the music of the eye in be- 

 holdins: the harmonious combinations found by microscopy 

 might be equal to the music of the ear produced by vocal and 

 instrumental culture for introduction into the best circles of 

 intelligent society. It is then very pleasant to announce that 

 an English lady, Mrs. Jenny Spottiswoode, 1 Lunham road, 

 Upper Norwood, London, has cultivated for more than half a 

 century the charms, pleasures, dehghts, intellectual cultures, 

 and uplifting influences of microscopical enjoyment. Fifty 

 such years have not cloyed her tasts as the following extracts 

 from a late letter of her's to an American friend are a proof: — 

 "1 think the taste for it (M-croscopy) is born with one. It is 



