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THE AMERICAN MONTHLY 



[Feb. 1881. 



After witnessing- the circulation of the 

 white and red corpuscles of the blood in a 

 newt's gills, while the creature was confined 

 in a " live box," the Society adjourned to 

 meet again on the last Thursday in Jan- 

 uary. 



Thad. S. Up de Graff, Sec. 



CAMDEN, N. J. 



At the annual meeting, held January 

 6th, 1881, the following gentlemen were 

 unanimously reelected officers for the 

 ensuing year : 



President, Albert P. Brown, Ph. G. ; 

 Secretary, Joseph L. De la Cour ; Treas- 

 urer, Louis T. Derousse ; Malingers, A. S. 

 Fortiner, Robert Patterson, C. Henry 

 Kain ; Curator, Prof E. F. Moody, Ph. D. 



The Society numbers 55 members — 33 

 active, 20 contributing, 3 corresponding, 

 and it is in a flourishing condition as 

 shown by the reports of the respective 

 officers. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



The Rochester Microscopical Society 

 held its annual meeting in the Free Aca- 

 demy building. After the regular routine 

 business, the reports of the various officers, 

 on the work of the past year, were called 

 for. 



The Secretary, Dr. J. Edward Line, was 

 first called upon. He reported that the So- 

 ciety had held eight regular monthly meet- 

 ings during the past year, which were well 

 attended. He presented a list of the papers 

 read before the Society. The second an- 

 nual Soiree was, in every respect, superior 

 to its predecessor. Some of the statistics 

 of it are as follows : 



Number of exhibitors, .... 59 

 Number of exhibits, .... 132 

 Number of microscopes, ... 69 

 Number of objectives, ... 96 

 The membership reported a year ago 

 was eighty-nine. Since then thirty-two 

 have joined the number, while two have 

 been lost, one by death and one by resigna- 

 tion. The total membership at present is 

 119, of which 110 are active and 9 hon- 

 orary members. 



The President, Professor Lattimore, 

 then made some remarks appropriate to the 

 close of the year and of his official term. 

 In reviewing their past history he congra- 

 tulated the Society upon the progress it 

 had made. He attributed much of it to the 

 harmonious feeling which had always 

 prevailed. The papers which had been 

 read before the Society had been of ex- 

 ceptional interest. Some of them had 



attracted a great deal of attention outside 

 of the city. Then, too, the stimulus which 

 the association had given to individual 

 effort was healthful and productive. Their 

 exhibits had changed wonderfully since 

 the first meetings. At first they presented 

 the labor of others, now their own work 

 was exhibited. Some of the work done by 

 members of the Society, in mounting ob- 

 jects, was beginning to attract attention 

 among leading microscopists, and when 

 its full import was known it would attract 

 much more. Professor Lattimore then 

 made two recommendations. The time 

 had come, he thought, when the active 

 working members of the Society should 

 select a field in which to labor. They 

 must narrow their research to one subject. 

 Only thus could they accomplish great 

 results. The details of the work would 

 be mastered and they would be free to 

 observe the more interesting and complex 

 phenomena. He recommended further 

 that the Society subdivide itself into small 

 clubs of three or four members each for 

 pursuing work in the same field togther. 



The following officers were elected for 

 the ensuing year : 



President : Rev. Myron Adams ; Vice- 

 president, H. F. Atwood ; Treasurer, Dr. 

 C. E. Rider ; Secretary, H. C. Maine. 



During the canvass of the votes for pre- 

 sident, Professor Lattimore exhibited to 

 the society specimens of trout eggs and 

 shrimps presented by Mr. Enright of the 

 hatching establishment at Caledonia Pro- 

 fessor Lattimore suggested a mode of 

 studying the eggs by means of sections 

 made with the section-cutter. During the 

 canvass of votes for vice-president, Mr. 

 Maine exhibited drawings of diatoms from 

 the Massachusetts coast. 



Exchanges. 



[Exchanges are inserted in this column without 

 charge. They will be strictly limited to mounted 

 objects, and material for mounting.] 



Well-mounted diatoms, in exchange for other good 

 slides, material, etc., etc. W. H. TIVY, 



Sixth and Olive Sts, St. Louis, Mo. 



For a slide of Trichina spiralis in pork, send a 

 Histological, Pathological or other well-mounted slide 

 to H. C. DEANE, 



Box 379, Taunton, Mass. 



Wanted — Polj'cystina, Foraminifera. Diatomaceous 

 Earths, or other material or mounted objects, in ex- 

 change for Diatoms in situ and frte, Diatomaceous 

 Earths, Algae, and many of the other Cryptogramia 

 showing structure or fructification, and a large variety 

 of miscellaneous material. Only strictly first-class 

 objects ofiEered or desired. 



M. A. BOOTH, Longmeadow Mass. 



