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ning was spent in examining slides and in convers ition, etc. 



February 27, 1894. — Officers for 1894 were elected as follows : 

 President, E. T. Hartley ; Vice President, Dr. H, B. Ward ; "Sec- 

 retary, Ros oe Pound ; Treasurer, J. S. Dales ; Execu ive Com- 

 mittee, Dr. Bes-ey and Dr. Philbrick. 



The time of meeting was changed from the last Tuesday to 

 tliC last Wednesday of each month. 



Among the exhibits, Dr. Bessey showed a piece of a leaf of 

 Indian corn subjected to the action of chlorinated soda, used as 

 a substitute for Polasiu u hypochloride which he was unable to 

 obtain in the market. It cleaned very well and accomplished 

 all that the latter would. 



Ottumwa Microscopical Society, Ottumwa, Iowa. 



September 21. 1893. — This was organized as a new society with 

 Dr. L. J. Baker, President ; Dr. J. F. Herrick, Secretary. Other 

 members are Mr. E. M. B. Scott, Dr. J Williamson, Dr. S. A. 

 Spilman, Dr. B. F. Hyatt, Dr. W. B. La Force. 



NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



The Microscope and Microscopical Methods. By Simon Henry 

 Gage. Fifth edition, rewritten, pp. 165, 8°. Ithaca, N. Y., 

 Comstock Publishing Co. 1894. 



This edition has been greatly enlarged (nearly one half) by 

 the el iboration of the matter in previous editions. A chapter 

 has been added on photo-micrography and on photographing 

 natural history objecis in a horizontal position with a vertical 

 camera. The number of figures has been increased to 103. 



This volume constitutes Part I, on the Microscope and Histol- 

 ogy. Part 11, will give the application of the micro-cope to the 

 study of Vertebrate Histol 'gy and will be published as soon as 

 practicable. 



This as previous editions appears with half the pages blank 

 for annotation This is unnecessary so far as the general reader 

 is concerned but will be useful when the book is used in college 

 classes. As we have before said, the book is the best we have 

 seen for class instruction, and its references being mostly to 

 American apparatus, we should prefer it to English works 

 which refer to loreign a]>paratus. 



