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invited to speak, and he gave some interest- 

 ing reminiscences of his experience in this 

 city years ago, when he was instructed to 

 conduct certain investigations for the 

 Academy of Sciences, for which he was 

 unable to obtain a suitable microscope. 

 Mr. William Wales responded to " The 

 New York Microscopical Society," and 

 made a stirring speech. Prof. E. H. 

 Day was called upon, and he made some 

 excellent remarks on the subject of edu- 

 cation. Mr. C. F. Cox spoke in a very 

 pleasing manner on the proper aims and 

 possibilities of microscopical and other 

 scientific societies. 



We take pleasure in saying that the 

 entire evening was most pleasantly and 

 profitably spent. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



Guides for Science-teaching. No. VII. 

 Worms and Crustaceae. By Alpheus 

 Hyatt. Boston : Ginn, Heath & Co., 

 1882. (Pamphlet, pp. 68, with plates. 

 Price, 35c.) 



This is one of the " Guides for Science- 

 teaching " published for the Boston Soci- 

 ety of Natural History, " designed to sup- 

 plement lectures given to the teachers of 

 the public schools of Boston." The author 

 of this book has succeeded in giving the 

 information that teachers will find most 

 valuable in their work. It is well illustra- 

 ted, and the descriptions are very easily 

 understood. 



The earth-worm is first described, and 

 a short account of its habits is givfen. The 

 lobster is taken as a representative of the 

 Crustacea, and considerable space is given 

 to a description of its parts. The general 

 reader who takes up this book will surely 

 be surprised at the interest attached to 

 the careful examination of a lobster. 

 Other Crustacea are also described, all of 

 them readily obtained. The teacher 

 who, with the aid of such a book, fails to 

 interest the scholars in natural history is 

 certainly not worthy of the calling. 

 A Bibliography of the Microscope and 

 Micrographic Studies, being a cata- 

 logue of books and papers in the lib- 

 rary of Julien Deby, fellow of the Royal 

 Microscopical Society; member of the 

 Quekett Microscopical Club; late Vice- 

 President of the Soci6t6 Beige de Mi- 

 croscopic, etc. Part III. The Diato- 

 maceae compiled with the Co-operation 

 of Frederic Kitton, Hon. F. R. M. S. 



London : Printed for Julien Deby, by 

 David Bogue, 3 St. Martin's Place, W. 

 C. 1882. (Small 4° pp. 68.) 

 This is an elegant and very useful pub- 

 lication, printed by the author for private 

 distribution. It embraces besides a list of 

 books and pamphlets relating to the dia- 

 toms, as well as of collections, a chrono- 

 logical index which cannot fail to be of 

 great value to the student. The list of 

 books includes not only those in the 

 author's library, but also many others dis- 

 tingTjished by an asterisk as desiderata ; 

 which make the bibliography much more 

 complete. 



n The first and second parts of this work, 

 " which will contain similar lists of the 

 works relating to the microscope proper, 

 the Protozoa, the Desmidiae, and to some 

 other branches of natural science" are 

 nearly completed. 



The value of this work will be fully 

 appreciated without further remark from 

 us, but in closing this brief notice we 

 must express high commendation of the 

 excellent mechanical execution of the 

 work, as well as of the accuracy of the 

 text. 



The New Botany, a Lecture on the best 

 Method of Teaching the Science. By 

 W. J. Beal M. Sc, Ph, D., Professor of 

 Botany in the Agricultural College, 

 Lansing, Michigan. [From the Trans- 

 actions of the Twenty-ninth Annual 

 Meeting of the Michigan State Tea- 

 chers Association.] Second Edition, 

 Revised. Philadelphia: C. H. Marot. 

 814 Chestnut Street, 1882 (Pamphlet, 

 pp. 16. Price 35 cents.) 



Exchanges. 



[Exchanges are inserted in this column without 



charge. They will be strictly limited to mounted 



objects, and material for mounting.] 



Wanted— To exchange, good slides correctly 



named, or material for mountmg for same.— I- . C 



Smith, Bridgeport, Conn. 



Wanted — Diatomaceous material from New Hamp- 

 shire cor,l3.\amg A mpkipleura ^i^/^,""*'"^'^^^,^^- 

 change for materials from North of Ireland.-William 

 A. Firth, Whiterock, Belfast, Ireland. 



Striatella unipuncta, Rhabdonema Adrtaticum, 

 and other first-class crude material, to exchange for 

 named diatoms and first-class material-prepared and 

 particulariy foreign material preferred.— M. A. Booth, 

 Longmeadow, Mass. 



Wanted— Animal parasites, Ixodes, Acan, etc., 

 either mounted or unmounted.— W A. Hyslop, w 

 Palmer^ton Place, Edinburg, Scotland. 



