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THE AMERICAN MONTHLY 



[Mar., 



difficulties against wliicli perhaps tlie cells are uuablc to 

 contend. Disease of the organ then may arise from any 

 of these causes and one if inaugurated may bring on the 

 other, in any case it is because the normal conditions of 

 cell life are interfered with when the organ is an " un- 

 healthy state."* 



UioLOGicAL Labokatoky of Iliuuline University, .Jan. •.'Tth, ls<)L 



Red Snow as Seen by Means of the Microscope. 



By ARTHUR M. EDWARDS, M. D. 



NEWARK, N..T. 



Having received from Prof. Harry Fielding Reid a 

 specimen of H(Binatococcus from Tidal Inlet, Glacier bay, 

 Alaska, wliich he desires me to report upon, I have to say 

 that the specimen although very small is distinct enough 



for observation, when magnified. I understand it is 

 from near the entrance to Tidal Inlet, Grlacier bay, at 

 an altitude of three or four hundred feet on the moun- 

 tain side where he found a small depression a few inches 

 deep and perhaps two feet across partially filled with 

 water. The surface of the stones which projected through 

 the water looked as though they were pointed with ver- 

 milion. He brought a stone home with him and sub- 

 mitted it to Dr. F. H. Herrick of Western Reserve Uni- 



*A limited number of slides illiistrt^tive pf this article can be had of the 

 author at oO cents each. 



