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Iowa ; a contribution to the study of the Burrill corn 

 disease, by Dr. V. A. Moore, Washington, D. C. ; a new 

 method for securing paraffin sections to the slide by Miss 

 Agues M. Chiypole, Akron, Ohio ; a marker for indicat- 

 ing the position of objects in microscopical preparations, 

 by Prof. S. H. Gage, Ithaca, N. Y. ; formalin, by Dr. J. 

 Melvin Lamb, Washington, D. C. ; simplification of lab- 

 oratory methods, by Dr. Wm. C. Krauss, Buffalo, N. Y. ; 

 limitation of tuberculosis, by Dr. W. W. Alleger, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. ; a study of the muscular tunic in the large 

 and small intestine of man in the vicinity of the Ca>cum, 

 by Dr. R. 0. Moody, New Haven, Conn. ; a study of the 

 microscopic phenomena of iullammation, with special 

 reference to the Diapedesis of the white-blood corpuscle, 

 by Dr. Charles F. Craig, Danbury, Conn. ; a third study 

 of the blood liaBmatoblasts and plaquelettes, by Dr. M. 

 L. Holbrook, New York city. 



The following officers were elected for the next year : 



President, Prof. Simon Henry Gage, of Ithaca, N. Y. ; 

 Vice-presidents, Dr. Veranus A. Moore, of Washington, 

 D. C, and Henry G. Hanks, of San Francisco, Cal. ; 

 Treasurer, Magnus Pflaum, of Pitsburgh, Pa. ; as mem- 

 bers of the Executive Committee, Dr. Robert 0. Moody, 

 of New Haven, Conn. ; Charles S. Schaltz, of Hoboken, 

 N. J., and Prof. Henry B. Ward, of Lincoln, Neb. The 

 term of the Secretary has not yet expired. 



Some new apparatus was exhibited by Messrs. Wool- 

 man and Drescher, and on Tuesday afternoon a very in- 

 teresting visit was made to the Hoagland Laboratory. 



The Executive Committee decided that it was inexpe- 

 dient to hold an exhibition and working session this 

 year. These portions of the exercises of the annual 

 meeting depend very much upon the local microscopists 

 of the place where the meetings are held for their suc- 

 cess, and it did not appear that the conditions at Brook- 

 lyn were such as to encourage an attempt. In regard to 



