104 * THE AMERICAN MONTHLY. [April. 



Although I sent the usual dollar subscription in January, I 

 am so much pleased with the new departure that I now make up 

 the amount of the April price ($i.'^o). — H. S. Kelley. 



The first of April having passed, I suppose your price is now 

 $ I. =50, but I write to inquire whether vou will still accept mv 

 dollar for 1 892.?—^. W. F. ' 



I am glad to see that you propose to raise the price of the 

 Jou7-nal. It is the right and proper step. — J. Halle. 



MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETIES. 



San Francisco, Cal,, Geo. Otis Mitchell, Sec'y. 



Marc/i 2, j8g2. — Seventeen members and three visitors were 

 present. President Breckenfeld expressed his thanks for the honor 

 conferred upon him in the election to the office, and indulged in 

 some pleasant and interesting references to his eight years' con- 

 nection with the society. 



The secretary reported the receipt of the periodicals subscribed 

 for by the society, and of a pamphlet upon the Precocious Segre- 

 gatio7i of the Sex Cells in the Alicronictrns Aggregatus from 

 the author, Dr. Carl Eigenmann. 



R. W. Hills was elected to regular membership, and D. C. 

 Booth was proposed, and his nomination was ordered to take the 

 regular course. G. O. Mitchell, for the Committee on the Work- 

 room, reported what that committee had done in fitting up a dark 

 room for photo-micrography and in furnishing abundant facilities 

 for the !iiembers to work in preparing and mounting objects. He 

 extended an invitation to all present to visit the room upon ad- 

 journment, when Mr. Reidy would be present to do the honors. 



Judge Spencer, of San Jose, laid before the society a very in- 

 teresting piece of apparatus, the Abbe binocular eye-piece, speak- 

 ing at length of its many points of advantage over other means of 

 producing the stereoscopic vision. Some discussion followed upon 

 theoretical points concerning the principles involved. Judge 

 .Spencer kindly placed the apparatus at the disposal of the society 

 for the closer examination of its claimed merits. 



Mr. Breckenfeld read a paper upon "■ Some of the Common 

 Forms of Fresh-Water Algas." 



St. Louis Club of Microscopists. 



Thui'sday March 4. — Met at Dr. J. C. Falk's office, he being 

 president. He described and illustrated the microscopical exam- 

 ination of urine, and enumerated other uses for the instrimient 

 when owned by a retail druggist. Thos. Knoeble, Dr. Whelpley, 

 Otto Meyer, Wm. Ilhardt, Harry Starks, and Jos. Layat made 

 remarks. 



