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The 12th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Microscopists. 



By ROBERT W. SMILEY, 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Buffalo, the beautiful " Queen City of the Lakes," has for the second 

 time extended its hospitality to this Society. Owing to the efforts of 

 Doctors Lee H. Smith, George E. Fell, Lucien Howe, and other mem- 

 bers of the local committee, arrangements had been made to extend to 

 the visiting microscopists a most hearty welcome. On Monday evening, 

 August 19, the Executive Committee met with the local committee, 

 when the latter announced that an excursion would be given at such 

 time as might be agreed upon, several feasible trips being submitted. 

 The Hotel Iroquois, because of its convenient location, was selected as 

 the headquarters. 



TUESDAY MORNING. 



The opening session was held at the lecture room of the Society of 

 Natural Sciences in the Buffalo Library Building, Tuesday, August 20, 

 at 10.30 A. M. Dr. Lee H. Smith, president of the Buffalo Micro- 

 scopical Society, after calling the meeting to order, introduced the Rt. 

 Rev. A. Cleveland Coxe, who delivered an invocation. 



Hon. David F. Day, president of the Society of Natural Sciences of 

 Buffalo, was then called upon to deliver an address of welcome on be- 

 half of the local microscopical club and the citizens generally. Presi- 

 dent Day dwelt upon the advantages of Buffalo as a meeting place, upon 

 the hospitality of the people, and in the following words welcomed the 

 visitors on behalf of the various societies : 



" There are in the Microscopical Club of Buffalo some whose repu- 

 tation as men of science has extended beyond the seas, and whom you 

 will remember as among those who have heretofore taken an ample and 

 honorable part in the labors which have distinguished your Society. 

 They have looked forward to your coming again to this city with the 

 greatest pleasure ; and they early resolved that during your sojourn here 

 nothing essential to your happiness and within their power to provide 

 should be wanting. They now place at your disposal their apartments 

 in this temple, dedicated to science, letters, history, and the fine arts ; 

 and they invite you, most cordially invite you, to make use of all the 

 property of the Club as shall best contribute to the purposes which have 

 brought you here. 



■ " More than this: at their request the Buffalo Society of Natural 

 Sciences to-day throws open wide its doors, and bids you enter and 

 possess whatever is here which will minister in any degree to your 

 pleasure or convenience during your stay among us. 



" At the like request, the Buffalo Library offers to your use, while you 

 are here, its rooms for study and discussion, its library of 60,000 vol- 

 umes and the priceless treasures which belong to it, and in which }'our 

 cultivated and esthetic taste may find enjoyment. Our Historical So- 

 ciety, another one of the occupants of this majestic building, gladly 

 responding to the same call, asks you to make whatever use you can, 

 while you are our guests, of their books, papers, and collections, ' rich 

 with the spoils of time.' The Buffalo Academy of Fine Arts, also a 

 tenant of this edifice, not to be excelled in liberality by its sister socie- 

 ties, asks you to give such attention as may be within your power to its 



