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Last season the work done b}' and for the members was 

 of at least averag-e amount and quality; and, with the care- 

 ful and g^enerous assistance of all, it is hoped to attain still 

 better results. 



Owing- to the retirement of many circuit boxes, which 

 are no long-er available except for new circuits, a new set is 

 needed for immediate use, and collecting- boxes will be 

 started at once. As the success of the present season will 

 depend largely on the use of these contributions, members 

 are kindly requested to have the slides selected, and their 

 notes ready to copy into the Note-books on arrival, so that 

 the boxes can g-o forward without delay. Slides without 

 ideas in them, or accompanying- notes, are of little use. 

 Members not wholly familiar with the subject are re- 

 quested to consult carefully all the sug-gestions in the cir- 

 cular on Contribution of Slides on page 3 of the Report of 

 the Club last published, in 1895. 



Members whose subscription is not fully, paid, will 

 greatly oblige by remitting for present use, to the Presi- 

 dent, R. H. Ward, M. D., 53 Fourth St., Troy, N, Y. 



MICROSCOPICAL NOTES. 



French Congress of Medicine. — French Congress of 

 Medicine will be held at Montpellier in 1898, during the 

 Easter holidays, under the Presidency of Prof. Bernheim, 

 of Nancy. The annual Congress of French Alienists and 

 Neurologists will be held at Toulouse in 1897, 



Hayden Memorial Geological Fund. — Mrs. Emma W. 

 Hayden has given to the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia, in trust, the sum of $2,500 to be known as the 

 Hayden Memorial Geological Fund in commemoration of 

 her husband, the late Prof. Ferdinand V. Hayden, M. D., 

 L.L. D. According to the terms of the trust, a bronze 

 medal and the balance of the interest arising from the 

 fund are to be awarded annually for the best publication, 

 exploration, discovery or research in the sciences of geol- 

 ogy and paleontology, or in such particular branches there- 



