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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. 



Professor O. P. Phillips, of the University of Southern Cali- 

 fornia, writes in repl}' to our request that he express liis opin- 

 ion favorably to papers read at the AmericanMicroscopical So- 

 ciety being published in this periodical : 



" I can get at least ten of my microscopical friends to join 

 the association if this last suggestion is carried out. This is by 

 actual canvas." 



The suggestion to which he refers is as follows : 



If instead of the Society collecting $3 admission fee and $2 an- 

 nual dues from about 300 members, it were to collect no admittance fee 

 and |1 per annum from each member, it could have many more members. 

 If instead of spending $500 to $600 in printing "Proceedings" it should ap- 

 propriate $100 for engravings to be used in the Journal, its finances would 

 be in much better condition than now, and just as much of its publishing 

 could be done. If it would appropriate $360 for the publication of its papers 

 in the Journal, this periodical could have three times the illustrations it 

 now has and one and one-half times the present number of pages with- 

 out any further increase in the subscription price. 



Dr. S. M. Mosgrove, who was treasurer of the Society for 

 many years, writes : 



" Having had some experience in the past in publishing 

 Proceedings of the A. M. S., or rather in endeavoring to collect 

 money to pay for the same, I think your scheme of publishing 

 in the Journal would be beneficial to both the -Journal and to 

 the Society." 



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