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science, and especially in microscopy, had been very much aroused. 

 These meetings and informal exhibitions will be continued in the 

 future. He also spoke of the numerous excursions and "field 

 days" had recently, always productive of good results. 



This retrospective glance, he said, showed that the year had 

 been one of earnest endeavor, and had at least resulted in making 

 membership in the society more practically helpful and genuinely 

 enjoyable than ever before. The rapidly spreading use of the 

 microscope in so many directions is in itself a reason for the so- 

 ciety's existence, though not the only one. The study is a many- 

 sided one, and has its intensely practical side, as the detection ot 

 crime and forgery, and the working out of the great biological and 

 pathological problems of the age. 



After the conclusion of the annual address the society proceeded 

 to an election of officers, when all the old officers were reelected 

 except the vice-president. The officers- for the ensuing year are : 

 President, A. H. Breckenfeld ; vice-president, Dr. Douglass W. 

 Montgomery ; recording secretary, William E. Loy ; correspond- 

 ing secretary, George Otis Mitchell ; treasurer, Charles C. Riedy. 



Buffalo Microscopical Club, Buffalo, N. Y. 

 Monday, Nov. 14, i8g2. — Meeting held in the library building. 

 Exhibition was made of the embryology of the chick. G. Carl 

 Hauber, M. D., of the University of Michigan, read a paper enti- 

 tled " The Use of the Microscope in the Diagnosis of Diseases of 

 the Blood." 



Lincoln, Nf.br., Microscope Club. — Roscoe Pound, Sec'y. 



December 2yth. — No meeting was held on account of the meet- 

 ing of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences on that day. 



Ttiesday, January J 1st. — The following officers were elected 

 for 1S93 : President, A. F. Woods ; vice-president, F. C. Ken- 

 yon ; secretary, Roscoe Pound ; treasurer, J. S. Dales ; mem- 

 bers of the executive committee, E. T. ILutley and Dr. H. B. 

 Lowry. 



Omaha Microscopical Society. — George Wilkinson, M. D., 



Secy. 

 This society was organized March 17, 1S93, and for some time 

 held regular weekly meetings, but at present meetings are rarely 

 held. For 1S93 the president is L'win Leviston. There are 

 twenty members, most of whom work constantly with the micro- 

 scope. On February 15th Prof. Lighton exhibited some of their 

 mounts before the Omaha Medical Society. The society has no 

 library and but little other property. It is not incorporated and 

 has no printed constitution. Its meetings used to be reported in 

 the Omaha Cliitic. The secretary for 1893 is Geo. Wilkinson, 

 M. D., Karbach Block, Omaha, Nebr. 



