1897] MICROSCOPICAL JOURNAL. 139 



The officers for the Toledo meeting- are as follows: 

 President, Prof. E. W. Claypole, B. A., D. Sc. (Lond.) F. 

 G. S., Buchtel Colleg-e, Akron, O.; Vice-President, C. C. 

 Mellor. Pittsburg-h, Pa.; Secretary, William C. Krauss, 

 M. D., Buffalo, N. Y.; Treasurer, Mag-nus Pflaum, Pitts- 

 burg-h, Pa.; Executive Committee, A. A. Young-, M. D., 

 Newark, N. Y., Mrs. S. P. Gag-e. Ithaca, N. Y., W. P. 

 Manton, M. D., Detroit, Mich. 



The purpose for which the Society exists are the follow- 

 ing-: 



1. — To g-ive to all who are interested in the use of the 

 Microscope an opportunity of seeing- what others are doing- 

 and of showing- to others what they are doing- themselves. 

 In this way time is saved by avoiding- useless experiments 

 and labor directed into profitable channels. Moreover 

 workers are often enabled to g-ive one another mutual 

 assitance by becoming- acquainted with the fields in which 

 their fellows are eng-ag-ed. 



2. — To afford an opportunity for persone^l acquaintance 

 and intercourse with other microscopists and thus lessen 

 the sense of isolation which the g-reat size of the country 

 and the fewness of the workers inevitably produces. Ac- 

 quaintances thus beg-un at the meeting-s often ripen into 

 life-long- friendships based on mutual esteem and appre- 

 ciation. 



3. — To afford to a Microscopist w^orking- under difficul- 

 ties in a country district or in a small educational institu- 

 tion an opportunity of seeing- the more costly and compli- 

 cated pieces of apparatus only to be found in the hands of 

 dealers, professors teaching- in lar^e or wealthy colleg-es 

 or specialists in the g-reat cities. 



4. — To advance the cause of microscopic study among- 

 the people living in the district where the meeting- is held 

 by showing- the interest felt in the work outside of their 

 own limits. For this reason the Society assembles at a 

 different place every year. 



The American Microscopical Society is national in ex- 

 tent and welcomes to membership all who are sufficiently 

 interested in actual microscopical work or in the results 



