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preparation. An opening meeting should take the 

 form of an Exhibition and Conversazione and ladies and 

 friends be invited. 



Material for mounting might be distributed amongst 

 the members by those who can prepare it and in this 

 way a very nice cabinet of reference specimens could be 

 made by each member, instead of buying poor specimens. 

 A library should be formed and books issued, for many 

 members are not rich enough to secure all journals and 

 books necessary. A slide cabinet from which specimens 

 might be drawn to stady and compare with. This is es- 

 pecially useful in adulterations of food, in Foraminifera, 

 Embryology, Wood Sections, etc., etc. 



Exchanges from societies andgifts from publishers and 

 editors can be obtained without much difficulty. A 

 mounting section should be attached, to which the older 

 children could be associate members and gain help in 

 preparing their Biological High School work. Many are 

 also able to make nice collections of Micro-fungi, 

 Mosses, Pond life, etc., etc.. The course may be arranged 

 to cover the three kingdoms. 



1. Lecture and lesson, say Histologic Demonstration. 

 The structure, chemistry and physics of the vegetable and 

 animal cell and mounting specimens, testing with vari- 

 ous reagents. 



2. Demonstrations in illumination of objects with the 

 various Substage Condensers. 



3. Illustrated with the Oxy-Hydrogen lantern and 

 experiments, composition of blood, its physical and chem- 

 ical properties. 



6. Lesson on staining, fixing and counting blood by Ehr- 

 lich, Biondi, Plehn, logwood, eosin, etc. 



6. Various mounting media as C. Balsam, C. B. in sol- 

 vents, Farrant, Dama, glycerine, acetate potassium, sol. 

 of sodium, fluo-silicate, glycerine jelly, and their advan- 

 tages. 



