1897] MICROSCOPICAL JOURNAL. W.) 



The officers for the Toledo meeting- are as follows: 

 President, Prof. E. W. Claypole, B. A., D. Sc. ( Lond. > F. 

 G. S., Buchtcl Colleg-e, Akron, ().; Vice-President, C. C. 

 Mellor. Pittsburw-h, Pa.; Secretary, William C. Krauss, 

 M. D., Buffalo, N. Y.; Treasurer, Maj^nus Pflaum. Pitts- 

 bur<rh. Pa.; P^xecutive Committee, A. A. Young-, M. f)., 

 Newark, N. Y., Mrs. S. P. (lage, Ithaca, N. Y., W. P. 

 Manton, M. D., Detroit, Mich. 



Tlu" purpose for which the Society exists art.' the follow- 

 ing-: 



1. — To give to all who are interested in the use of the 

 Microscope an opj)ortunity <^f seeing- what others are doing- 

 and of showing- to others what they are dt)ing themselves. 

 In this way time is saved by avoiding useless experiments 

 and labor directed into protitable channels. Moreover 

 workers are often enabled to give one another mutual 

 assitance by becoming ac(juainted with the fields in which 

 their fellows are engaged. 



2. — To afford an ()])portunity for ])ersonal ac(|uaintance 

 and intercourse with other microscopists and thus lessen 

 the sense of isolation which the great size of the country 

 and the fewness of the workers inevitably produces. Ac- 

 quaintances thus !)eg'un at the meetings often ripen into 

 life-long friendships based on mutual esteem and ai)pre- 

 ciation. 



3. — To alford to a Microscopist working under difhcul- 

 ties in a country district or in a small educational institu- 

 tion an opportunity of seeing the more costly and compli- 

 c;ited pieces of apparatus only to be found in the hands of 

 dealers, professors teaching in large or wealthv collegt's 

 or specialist's in tlie g-reat cities. 



4. — To advance the cause of microscopic study among 

 the people living in the district where the meeting is held 

 1)V showing the interest felt in the work outside of their 

 own limits. l'"or this reason the Society asseml)]es at a 

 different i)lace every year. 



The American Microsco]Mcal Society is national in ex- 

 tent and welcomes to ineinl)ersliip all who are sufH'-ivMitl v 

 interested in actual microsco >ical work or in the results 



