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There is an interesting tield for the existence and 

 activity of this society in this country and the recent 

 advance of microscopical investigation all along the line 

 has enlarged its scope for tlie worker. There is abund- 

 ant material waiting to be worked over which can supply 

 endless subjects for discussion. The demand for micro- 

 scopical knowledge aud proficiency in the medical prac- 

 titioner at tlie present day is so great that few among 

 the older members of the profession can keep pace 

 with the requirements and one of the best methods 

 of keeping in touch with the advance of the medical art 

 on the part of the younger men is the maintenance of a 

 connection with such a society. They can thereby 

 become acquainted with methods, men, and learn from 

 time to time in what direction aud by whom their field of 

 labor is being enlarged. 



To the teacher, too, membership is invaluable. Tlie 

 peripatetic nature of the society which holds its meetiugs 

 in different places year by year brings them within the 

 reach of different seclions of the couutry and so reduces 

 to some the cost of attendance. Any one, man or woman, 

 engaged in any line of teaching which involves the use of 

 the microscope can pick up hints enough from those 

 whom he, or she, will meet to repay a moderate expendi- 

 iiiie. And in the present day a teacher in any such line 

 who is not progressive will soon become a fossil. 



Persons desirous of joining the society either as active 

 woikers or as leiruors are r^nplested to send their names 

 to the (Secretary, Dr. Wm. C. Krauss,of Buffalo, N. Y., to 

 Mr. Magnus Pflaum, of Pittsburgh, Pti., or to the Presi- 

 dent, Dr. E. W. Claypole, Akron, Ohio. 



The subscription is two dollars yearly with an entrance 

 fee of three dollars, in return for wliicli a member is 

 entitled to a coj)y of the proceedings containing the 

 papers read at the annual meetings. 



