1900] MICROSCOPICAL JOURNAL. 85 



Some comments among various notes contain useful 

 suggestion ; 



"Tliese slides are evidence that some of the beat work- 

 ing members are not experts in preparing mounts. Ob- 

 jects like these are not easily prepared so as to show struc- 

 ture and also make a a faultless mount; but the mounts 

 are very valuable and interesting to the microscopist and 

 student, and are examples of serious work, of which more 

 are much desired. — S. G. S." 



"The foreign sponges are good and instructive, but why 

 does not some student of our own fresh-water sponges 

 send around a box of them so that we ean gather mate- 

 rial for study and verification ? These sponges are to be 

 found almost every vf here in brooks and fresh ponds, at- 

 tached to submerged debris, and they are exceedingly in- 

 teresting. — C. N. A." 



Some member, of a sharp eye, great ingenuity and end- 

 less patience, has succeeded in deciphering the valuable 

 note, which was written with pale grayish ink and was 

 absolutely illegible to ordinary inspection, and has ap- 

 pended to the original note the translation, with a fine pen 

 and black ink on fine thin paper, giving a fine object-les- 

 son of the possibilities of compact, beautiful and legible 

 writing. — R. II. W. 



The following comments, from among many more of 

 the same kind, may serve to show to those who have taken 

 the pains to put good work into their slides and notes, 

 that their efforts have proved useful and have been in- 

 telligently appreciated: 



"You who live in the East do not appreciate how valu- 

 able the boxes of slides are to those of us who are far- 

 ther removed from contact with the best scientific work. 

 My classes look forward with great interest to the coming 

 of the boxes, and we almost always find something help- 

 ful, and always something interesting in them. — * * *." 



"There is most interest in home-made slides, even if 



