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black, while normal blood, takes on a reil-violel. In all 

 cases where possible, for the sake of absolute certainty, 

 the urine should be tested for g-lucose by any of the well- 

 known reactions. 



Yellow Fever Microbes. — Dr. Havelbur^ announces 

 that the mirobe which he considers the specific cause of 

 yellow fever is found only in the stomach and intestines, 

 but is cultivated by injecting- it subcutaneously into guinea 

 pigfs. He finds that a previous injection of blood from a 

 ye'llow fever convalesccsit renders an animal immune to an 

 otherwise fatal dose of injection of the cultivated microbe. 

 — O Brazil Medico. 



MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETIES. 



Quekett Microscopical Club. 



The 352nd meeting- of this club was held on June 18th. 

 It was voted to alter rule 1 of the club's bye-laws making- 

 the vacation three months instead of two, as heretofore. 

 Meetings will be resumed in October. 



K. and J. Beck exhibited a portable binocular microscope 

 with the stage and sub-stag-e entirely removable for con- 

 venience in packing. Mr. Nelson did not see why this 

 arrangement should be less practical and rig-id than the 

 more complicated and expensive revolving- movement 

 usually emploved, Mr. Nelson described the perfoi-mance 

 of Leit/'s new semi-apochromatic 1- lOth oil immersion 

 objective of 1*3 N. A., which he thoug-ht was the linest 

 lens yet produced at anything- like the price viz., $18.00. 

 He also exhibited one of his new-formula reflecting loups, 

 and a tine series of enlargements of his well-know n photo- 

 micrographs of diatom structure. Mr. A. lOarland read a 

 paper on collecting Foraminiferous material, including 

 directions for cleaning and mounting. Mr. Kousselet 

 read a jiaper on the male of I'roales wernecki - a rotifer the 

 females of which ])roduce galls on Vaucheria, in which 

 thev reside and dept>sit their eggs. 



