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and secondarily to publish articles. In due time, though 

 perhaps not till it has wrought considerable injury, misfortunes 

 will overtake them, coming from sources unconnected with 

 with those whom they have wronged, and they will either won- 

 der why they suffer at all or will be entirely content to explain 

 it as due to "tariff legislation," or to the poor condition of 

 business throughout the country. 



Not American. — On page 402 of our December issue we 

 published a letter from Miss V. A. Latham. We had asked her 

 as well as all the other ofhcers of the American Microscopical 

 Society to contribute her views regarding any ways in which 

 we might advance the interests of the Society. 



In reply she took occasion to say : "I do not approve of the 

 Journals over here at all. The Microscope as edited by Manton 

 was one of the most valuable periodicals going but now there is 

 not a decent one existing." 



In a footnote we thought best to remind the reader of a pos- 

 sible reason why American periodicals are so poor, by saying: 



"It will be borne in mind that Miss Latham is one of the 

 editors of an English microsopical periodical and that she, an 

 American, sends most of her contributions abroad to be 

 published." 



We are consequently in receipt of the following request, with 

 which we are pleased to comply. 



"Will you kindly make an early correction in your Journal 

 and oblige. In the footnote on page 402 you make the state- 

 ment I am an American. That is far from being a disgrace and 

 I feel honored by the same, but in the first place every one has a 

 right to contribute wheresover he will, and again I beg to state 

 that I am NOT an American but distinctly English, that is if a 

 wandering person like myself can claim any residence." 



We therefore ask the members of the American Microscopical 

 Society who at their Ithaca meeting elected Miss Latham as 

 one of their officers and to whom we have appealed for co-oper- 

 ation in advancing the interests of the American Society, to 

 please note that Miss Latham quite emphatically wishes it 

 unders^od that she is NOT an American." 



If there are any more officers of the American Society who 

 are not Americans we will afford them space in which to say so 

 n case they desire it to be known. 



