236 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY ‘Aug 
berg, Bavaria, will celebrate its One hundredth Anniversa- 
ry Octo. 26 and 27; 1901. An address will be given by the 
Director, Dr. Heerwagen, and the principal address will 
be by Herrn Professor Dr. Sigmund Gunther of Munich, 
There will be a reception in the Museum anda banquet 
at the Golden Adler Hotel. 
Micro-MATERIAL,— Wanted ; fresh pollens, starches, 
diatoms, zoophytes, Coleoptera (good British or foreign), 
also sponge spicules or other interesting marine speci- 
mens. Must be correctly named. Send list and quantity. 
Liberal exchange given in either other material, mounted 
specimens, or microscopic apparatus. —M., 69 Park Road, 
Clapham, London, 8. W.. | 
Nutmegs.—A St Louis editor gives the microscope ered- 
it for having detected many food and drug adulterations 
including the Connecticut wooden nutmegs. Verily, the 
Microscope seems to have done more than we supposed 
it had done. 
Lepidoptera.——Yor exchanges, supplies, beoks, eic., see. 
lists of J. W. Davis, 3i Hythe st, the Bridge, Darttord, 
Kent, Bugland. 
An Aversion to Micro-Science. 
The person with a microscope, he’s always hanging ’rauad, 
And scaring everybody with his vision so profound. 
If I had paid attention to the various things he said, 
I'd surely be so frightened that I might.as well be dead. 
There isn’t any limit to the deadly germs he’ll spy 
Whene’er he takes his lenses out and winks the other eye. 
I might face the jungle tiger and imagine it was fun, 
But this microscopic terror truly has me on the run, 
He writes about bacilli who your tissues will explore, 
Of the marching microbe niillions who are searching for your sore; 
He tells of the persistence of these ministers of death, 
Till you nearly have a spasm every tinie you draw a breath. 
He even gets'up pictures of the surreptitious germ, 
Who is solely in existence to cut short your earthly. term. 
And life is strangely bitter and devoid of any hope, 
All owing to this croaker with his maddening microscope. salle ta 
ee oe 
els 
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