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being made to receive the American Association for Advance- 

 ment of Science and kindred organizations next summer. Great 

 hopes of benefit are entertained from the coming of so many 

 scientists to the Pacific Coast. 



R. H. Freund demonstrated spirilla, showing flagella. He 

 exhibited a slide of rare excellence. 



PERSONAL. 



Walter F. Webb formerly with The Oologist has started a 

 monthly magazine called The Museum. The first number con- 

 tains a finely illustrated article upon the Atlantic Coast Star- 

 fishes. 



H. C. Wells is an authority on life slides. We hope to have 

 an article from him on this subject. 



D. Bryce Scott is interested in the Polycistina of which 

 there are but few students in America. He sometimes has 

 earth for distribution. 



Dr. Geo. S. Liggett has three little crosses cut in his stage 

 and uses them as a " finder" by putting a speck of ink on the 

 glass, right over the crosses. 



Hans Wilder is a successful druggist who knows what to do 

 with a microscope. 



Albert S. Barker has become assistant editor of the Bulletin. 



Lewis W^oolman has samples of a small insect which in 

 countless numbers rode from New Jersey into Philadelphia on 

 a locomotive. The wings are prettily veined and the eyes mul- 

 tiple (family Leptocerida?). 



F. W. Richards is an enthusiastic member of the Montreal 

 Microscopical Society. 



Dr. P. W. Shimer has invented an apparatus for filtering 

 microscopical objects out of water. 



B. H. Gledhill has a polarizing arrangement giving a great 

 number of color combinations Will he please send us a full 

 description ? 



Wm. R. Huggard of Davos Platz, Switzerland, has contrib- 

 uted a valuable article on Consumption to the Universal Medical 

 Journal. 



