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THE AMERICAN MONTHLY 



[Mar., 



difficulties against which perhaps the cells are unable to 

 contend. Disease of the organ then may arise from any 

 of these causes and one if inaugurated may bring on the 

 other, in any case it is because the normal conditions of 

 cell life are interfered with when the organ is an " un- 

 healthy state." '^ 



Biological Lahoeatoky of Hamliue Uuiversity, Jau. -iTth, lHy4. 



Red Snow as Seen by Means of the Microscope. 



By AKTHITR M. EDWAKDS, M. D. 

 NEWARK, N. .1. 



Having received from Prof. Harry Fielding Reid a 

 specimen of Hmmatococous from Tidal Inlet, Glacier bay, 

 Alaska, which he desires me to report upon, I have to say 

 that the specimen although very small is distinct enough 



for observation, when magnified. I understand it is 

 from near the entrance to Tidal Inlet, Grlacier bay, at 

 an altitude of three or four Imndred feet on the moun- 

 tain side where he found a small depression a few inches 

 deep and perhaps two feet across partially filled with 

 water. The surface of the stones which projected through 

 the water looked as though they were pointed with ver- 

 milion. He brought a stone home with him and sub- 

 mitted it to Dr. F. H. Herrick of Western Reserve Uni- 



*A limited number of slides illustrative pf this article can be had of the 

 author at ."JO cents each. 



