THE AMERICAN 



MONTHLY 



MICROSCOPICAL JOURNAL. 



Vol. XII SEPTEMBER, 1891. No. 9. 



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The Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the American Society of 

 Microscopists. 



By ROBERT W. SMILEY, 



WASHINGTON, U. C. 



The extensive series of national scientific conventions that will last 

 well into September, was begun on Tuesday. August 1 1, when the 

 American Society of Microscopists assembled for the fourteenth annual 

 meeting in the lecture room of the Medical Department of Columbian 

 University, Washington, D. C. The main room on the ground floor 

 of the building was used for the meetings of the microscopists. The 

 arrangements for the convention were in the hands of the Microscopi- 

 cal Society of this city, and all the preliminary work of arranging for 

 a successful convention was well done. 



The morning sessions of the Society were given up to business and 

 reading of papers, while the afternoons were devoted to visiting the 

 various scientific bureaus of the Government, in nearly all of which the 

 microscope is extensively used. 



The headquarters of the vSociety were at the Hotel Arno. 



Tuesday Morning. 



Dr. F. L. James, of St. Louis, President of the American Society 

 of Microscopists, called the members to order at a few minutes past lo 

 o'clock. The opening prayer was then ofiered by Rev. R. S. L. Wood. 



Dr. J. S. Billings, of the Army Medical Stafl'. welcomed the visitors 

 to Washington. His remarks were principally devoted to an account 

 of the growth of the interest in the microscope in the Government de- 

 partments. Among other things Dr. Billings said : 



The President, Ladies, and Gentlemen : It is my pleasant duty 

 this morning to bid you welcome to Washington and to say to you that 



Copyright, 1891, by C. W. Smiley. 



