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Slide Cabinet. — The readers of the Journal will be g-lad 

 to know that a new slide cabnet has been put on the mar- 

 ket by Wag-enfuehr & Hillig-, 506 Olive Street, St. Louis, 

 Mo. We have just received one sample from the makers 

 and we find it clean, lig-ht and strong- and we recommend it, 

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American Microscopical Society. ^ — The nineteenth an- 

 nual meeting- of the American Microscopical Society was 

 held at Pittsburg-, on Aug-ust 18, 19, 20, 1896, under the 

 presidency of A. C. Mercer, of Syracuse. An address of 

 welcome was delivered by Dr. W. J. Holland, chancellor 

 of the Western University. Among- the papers reeid were 

 the following- : "Comparative Histolog-y," by Prof. Edith 

 J. Claypole; "Courses in Histolog-y and Methods of Con- 

 ducting- Them," by Prof. S. H. Gag-e, of Ithaca: "Photo- 

 microg-raphy by the Use of an Ordinary Objective Prac- 

 tically Considered, with Specimens of Work," by Thomas 

 J. Bray, of Warren, O. "On Astronomical Pholog-raphs, 

 with Photomicrog-raphic Apparatus," showing- pictures 

 of a partial eclipse of the sun taken on an eig-ht-inch focus, 

 by President Mereer : "The Antivivisection Bill," by 

 Pierre A. Fish, of Chicag-o; "The Acetylene Lig-hts as Ap- 

 plied to Photomicroscopy," by William H. Walmsley, of 

 Chicag-o: "What is the Best Method of Teaching- Micro- 

 Science in Medical Schools? by Dr. Vida A. Latham, of 

 Chicag-o; "The Structure of the Teeth and Spines of Some 

 Fossil Fishes, Mazada and Ctena Canthus," by Prof. E. 

 W. Claypole, of Akron, O. ; "The Development of the 

 Brain in Soft-Shell Turtles," by Susanna Phelps Gag-e, of 

 Ithaca, N. Y. ; "The Rotifera in Sandusky Bay," by Prof. 

 E. W. Claypole, of Akron, and D. S. Kellicott, of Colum- 

 bus, O. ; "On the Public Water Supply for Small Towns," 

 by Dr. M. A. Veeder, of Lyons, N. Y. ; "The Requisites 

 of a Pure Water Supply," by Dr. William C. Krauss, of 

 Buffalo, N. Y. 



