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MICROSCOPICAL JOURNAL. 



199 



James E. Whitney's paper on 

 ' Rapid Section Cutting' was read 

 bv title only. Dr. Manton's paper 

 on preparing chicken embryos for 

 the microscope was listened to with 

 much attention. Mr. Hudson recom- 

 mended the incubator as preferable 

 and more regular than the hen. 



Judge Cox's paper on • Some Dia- 

 tom IIoops ' was carefully described 

 and illustrated on the black-board. 



The society received a communi- 

 cation urgently requesting that the 

 meeting next year be held at Chau- 

 tauqua. It was referred to the execu- 

 tive committee. 



Dr. Detmers, in speaking of the 

 value of such gatherings of micro- 

 scopists referred to the importance of 

 reliable microscopical evidence and 

 cited an interesting case recently on 

 trial in Illinois where a murder was 

 committed in an old ice-house. The 

 murdered man was found lying on a 

 pile of pine sawdust. A man was 

 arrested for the murder upon whose 

 boots and pantaloons small particles 

 of sawdust were found clinging. He 

 claimed that he had not been near the 

 ice-house where the murder was com- 

 mitted, but had been sleeping in an- 

 other ice-house several yards away. 

 It was conclusively shown that all the 

 sawdust in the house where he claim- 

 ed to have been was from hard wood. 

 There was no hard wood sawdust in 

 the house where the murder was com- 

 mitted. Particles of sawdust from 

 the prisoner's boots and clothes were 

 placed under the microscope bv an 

 expert, who conclusively pro\ed that 

 it was pine sawdust, exactly like that 

 found at the scene of the murder. 

 The microscopist's evidence led to the 

 conviction of the prisoner. 



The closing session was devoted to 

 the reading of a few papers. H. E. 

 Summers presented a paper on a new 

 method of making a cabinet. C. 

 M. Vorce, of Cleveland, read a paper 

 on a combined focussing and safet}- 

 stage for micrometry with high pow- 

 ers, and James H. Logan, of Pitts- 

 burg, on a new life slide. Professor 



Burrill talked about a new helio- 

 stat. 



Treasurer Fell announced that the 

 Royal Microscopical Society had 

 given five guineas toward the Tolles 

 and Spencer fund. It is proposed to 

 build up an endowment, the pro- 

 ceeds of which shall be used in the 

 way of prizes toward encouraging 

 original research in microscopy. 



"editorial. 



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Postal Club Boxes. — The boxes 

 were started on their circuits from 

 Troy on the 15th of last month. The 

 plan of operations is the same as last 

 year. Members should remember 

 that new boxes to be filled will be 

 sent out, probably in January, and 

 they should be prepared to fill them 

 with good specimens. 



Box F contains the following speci- 

 mens : — 



1. Garden pea. W. C. Gorman. 

 A vertical section of the germ, show- 

 ing radicle and plumule, and cells 

 stored with starch. 



2. Sea mat, Cauda sp. Miss Grace 

 E. Edwards. 



3. Group of diatoms, Arachnoid- 

 iscus ornattis. F. J. Seidensticker. 



4. Gypsum crystals. C. M. Bur- 

 gess. From copper queen mine, 

 Arizona, supposed to be colored by 

 copper. 



5. Finger of monkev. Prof. Arthur 

 B.Morrill. 



6. Young horse-shoe crab. M.S. 



