1895.] MICROSCOPICAL JOURNAL. 117 



EDITORIAL. 



Proceedings of the A. M. Society. — We are today (Mar. 

 18) in receiptor "Part I, October, 1894," of this publication which 

 the cover-page informs us is "Issued Quarterly" and by virtue 

 of which it is transmitted through the mails as second-class 

 matter. It contains pag'^s 1-67 and 8 plates, price 50 cents. 



From it we get the first official echo of the Brooklyn meeting 

 held last August. If it takes seven months to issue part I, when 

 may we expect parts II, III, IV? The contents of this bro- 

 chure are as follows : 



Pages 1-17, the Secretary's minutes of the sessions. 



Page 18, the Treasurer's report for 1893-'94. 



Pages 19-64, Kingsbury's paper on the Histology of the 

 enteronofN. maculatus. (This is the paper of which we pub- 

 li.^lied a synopsis last November, pp. 339-345). 



Pages 65-67, Miss Claypole'rf method for securing paraffin 

 sections. (We reprint this ia full under our head of Methods, 

 pages 119—122.) 



As these two papers and the Treasurer's report were read at 

 the meeting, we infer that the principal cause of seven months' 

 delay was the writing out of the Secretary's notes. And yet any 

 competent secretary ought to be able to do this in from 7 to 17 

 hours. These notes are padded with six pa^es regarding a new 

 form of microscope and regarding bacteriological work in the 

 Hoagland Laboratory — matter entirely out of place in the min- 

 utes of the meeting. Both items would more properly appear 

 as short papers by the respective authors. 



On the first page, Dr. Lester A. Curtis gets the following com. 

 pliment: "It is usual for the volume to begin with the annual 

 address of the President, but the Secretary has never received 

 it although he has written repeatedly to the President for it." 



It will be remembered that the meeting was to begin on Mon- 

 day morning, August 13, and that the President did not arrive 

 until Tuesday morning. The evening of the first day is the prop- 

 er time for the delivery of the Address, which once was an 

 occasion of some importance. We have searched these minutes 

 in vain to learn whether or not Dr. Curtis delivered any address 

 at all ! Evidently he did not, but that the Secretary tried to 

 get a posthumous address out of him and failed — failing he ut- 



