THE AMERICAN 



MONTHLY 



MICROSCOPICAL JOURNAL 



Vol. II. 



New York, 



August, 1881. 



No. 8. 



The American Society of Micro- 

 scopists. 



SUMMARY OF PROCEEDINGS. 



The fourth annual meeting of the 

 American Society of Microscopists 

 was held at Columbus, O., beginning 

 ; at ten o'clock Tuesday morning, 

 August 9th, in the room of the Board 

 of Trade. Prof. H. L. Smith, the 

 retiring President, called the meeting 

 to order, and introduced the Vice- 

 President, Dr. George E. Blackham, 

 the President, Mr. J. D. Hyatt, being 

 detained at home by the death of a 

 relative. Ex-President Orton, of the 

 State University, delivered an ad- 

 dress of welcome, to which Dr. Black- 

 ham responded. A number of new 

 members were elected, and after the 

 transaction of some miscellaneous 

 business the meeting was adjourned 

 until the afternoon. 



At the afternoon session Mr. C. M. 

 Vorce read an article, entitled 

 "The Wholesale Destruction of 

 Acari by a Fungus," and another 

 on " Forms Observed in Water 

 from Lake Erie," a subject to 

 which he has given much attention, 

 as most of our readers well know. Prof. 

 A. H. Tuttle then read an article 

 " On the Occurrence of Gregarina in 

 the American Lobster." Methods 

 of work were then informally dis- 

 cussed. 



Second Day. — The proceedings 

 of the second day opened at half- 

 past nine o'clock. The minutes were 

 approved and some new members 

 were elected. Mr. Frank Crisp, F. R. 

 M. S., of London, Mr. Charles A. 

 Spencer, of Geneva, and Mr. J. Sulli- 



vant, of Columbus, O., were nomi- 

 nated as honorary members. 



The following gentlemen were 

 elected members of the Nominating 

 Committee : Prof. H. L. Smith, E. H. 

 Griffith, Edward Bausch, D. N. Kins- 

 man, W. Humphrey, W. H. Bulloch, 

 Rev. A. B. Hervey. 



The following articles were read : 

 "Cancer of the Left Auricle," by 

 Dr. Kinsman ; Binocular Vision, by 

 George E. Fell. Some by-laws were 

 passed relative to the disposition of 

 papers read before the Society. 



In the afternoon Prof. Lester Cur- 

 tis gave an account of his recent 

 studies of blood, and Dr. Jacob 

 Redding read an article on "Muscu- 

 lar Contractility," embodying the 

 results of original observations and 

 study, which have led the author 

 to form an hypothesis of his own 

 concerning the phenomena of muscu- 

 lar contraction. Dr. E. L. Shurly 

 described "A New Gas Slide." 



After the reading of the papers the 

 subject of " Binocular Microscopes " 

 was taken up for informal discussion. 

 Prof. H. L. Smith stated at length 

 his opinions of various forms of 

 binoculars. The discussion was par- 

 ticipated in by Messrs. Fell, New- 

 comer, Up de Graff and others, after 

 which the Society adjourned to meet 

 at ten o'clock the next morning. 



In the evening a public exhibition 

 was given in the City Hall. About 

 fifty-five instruments were on exhibi- 

 tion. In the collection there were 

 some very fine instruments, displayed 

 by the manufacturers and dealers. 



Third Day. — A number of new 

 members were elected, among them 



