284 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY [Sept. 



A cordial invitation was sent from the Microscopical 

 Club of Buffalo to hold the next annual meeting in 

 Buffalo. The matter was left to the executive committee 

 as usual. It is hoped, however, that an early decision 

 will be reached, and then that the impulse for the pros- 

 perity of the society given this year will increase year 

 by year till the society fills the place in our country 

 which it so richly deserves to fill. 



FRIDAY EVENING. 



Friday evening a very pleasant soiree was held. 

 About fifty microscopes were arranged in a hollow square 

 in the university armory and gymnasium. If anyone 

 felt discouraged before the meeting began it vanished 

 as the meeting proceeded. The number of members 

 present was about fifty, and some of those who could not 

 be present sent papers. As this exhibition was espec- 

 ially designed to give people who have not had the op- 

 portunity of making extended study with the micros- 

 cope the privilege of seeing for themselves some of the 

 interesting and instructive revelations, most of the ob- 

 jects chosen for exhibition were those which would best 

 serve to engage and please the average visitor's atten- 

 tion rather than those of the more particular scientific 

 interest. 



The exhibition lasted from 8 to 11 o'clock, and the 

 wonders of the microscope seemed veritable miracles to 

 some, who for the first time looked down the tube. The 

 local managers are justified in feeling proud over the 

 success of this soiree, which was indeed one of the fea- 

 tures of the Ithaca meeting. 



MANUFACTURERS' EXHIBITION. 



The firms named below were represented at the meet- 

 ing with the products of their manufacture as follows : 



The Bausch & Lomb Optical Company of Rochester 

 and New York, N. Y., with a full line of their micros- 



