THE MICROSCOPICAL JOURNAL 



Contents for December, 1894. 



Hsematoblasts and Blood Platelets. Holbrook 361 



A Note on the Use* f Anise Oil in Histological Methods with Special 

 Reference to its Value in Catting Serial Sections on the Freezing 



Microtome. Moore 373 



A Standard Unit of Size for Micro-Organisms. Whipple, (With frontis- 

 piece.) •^'''7 



Classification of the Radiolaria : Key to the Species of Barbadoes. Carter 381 



Mr. Cunningham's Method of Illumination. Gray 385 



Editorial. — A Rare and Valuable Work 387 



Tuberculosis in Snakes 387 



MicfiOSCOPicAL Manipulation. — The Staining and Mounting of Tube 



Casts and Other Organic Urinary Deposits 388 



Bacteriology.— The Bacillus of the Chinese Bubonic Plague 388 



Trichinosis 390 



MiCRO.'*copiCAL Societies. — Lincoln, Nebr 391 



Washington, D. C 391 



New Publications. — Laboratory Exercises in Botany. Bastin 392 



Index 394 



THE MICROSCOPE. 



Contents for December, 1894. 



A Microscope for Children (with Frontispiece) 175 



Aquariums for Microscopists. Tempere 177 



A Newly Discovered Cause of Typhoid Fever 179 



Railroad Microscope Stage 180 



Editorial.— Primary Dissecting Microscope 181 



Clark's Book for Beginners 181 



Questions Answered. — Paraffin Imbedding 182 



Wenham Stand 182 



Mounting Starch ••• 182 



Literature of Photomicrography 183 



Practical Suggestions.— By L. A. Willson 183 



Polarizing Objects 183 



Ceratium 184 



Opaque Slides 184 



Cells Made with Buttons 184 



Coreespondence.— Reply to Dr. Stokes 185 



Animality of the Diatom ." 187 



Science Gossip. — Detecting Blood 189 



Recent Publications. — Hertfordshire Society 189 



