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THE AMERICAN MONTHLY [August, 1881. 



useful in the collection and preparation of 

 plants for the herbarium or for future 

 study. 



Naturalists are greatly indebted to Mr. 

 Bates for the " Naturalists' Handy Se- 

 ries," which he has undertaken to pub- 

 lish. " Life on the Seashore," which is 

 one of the series, has already received a 

 favorable notice in these columns. 



Catalogue of the Phcenogamous and 



Vascular Cryptogamous Plants of 



Michigan, Indigenous, Naturalized 



and Adventive. By Chas. F. Wheeler 



and Erwin F. Smith. Lansing : W. S. 



George & Co. 1881. (Pamphlet, pp. 



105. Price, 50 cents.) 



This catalogue was prepared for the 



Horticultural Society. It seems to have 



been very carefully prepared. The flora 



of Michigan, as thus presented, contains 



118 families (orders) and 1,634 species, of 



which 182 belong to the Compositje. The 



common, local names of the plants are 



given in the margin of the pages, besides 



the botanical names. 



A Fatal Form of Septic(sinia in the 

 Rabbit Produced by the Subcutaneous 

 Injection of Human Saliva : An Ex- 

 perimental Research by George M. 

 Sternberg, Surgeon, U. S. Army. Re- 

 printed from National Board of Health 

 Bulletin. Baltimore : Printed! by John 

 Murphy & Co. 1881. (Pamphlet, pp. 

 22, with heliotype plate.) 



Ether Death: a Personal Experience in 

 Four Cases of Death from AncEsth- 

 etics. By John H. Roberts, A. M^, 

 M. D. Reprinted from the Philadel- 

 phia Medical Times. (Pamphlet, pp. 

 12.) 



This is a valuable contribution to the 

 subject, and is well worthy of the at- 

 tention of physicians. 



Hip- Joint Disease: Death in Early 

 Stage from Tubercular Meningitis. 

 By De Forrest Willard, M. D., Lec- 

 turer on Orthopedic Surgery, Univers- 

 ity of Pennsylvania. Microscopical Ap- 

 pearances with cuts, by E. O. Shakes- 

 peare, M. D. Reprinted from the Bos- 

 ton Medical and Surgical Journal. 

 (Pamphlet, pp. 20.) 



Microscopy in Medical Practice: its 

 Necessity Demonstrated in the Inves- 

 tigation of Disease. By G. Hermann 

 Merkel, M. D. New York: Albert 

 Metz & Co., Printers. 1881. (Pam- 

 phlet, pp. 22.) 



Exchanges. 



[Exchanges are inserted in this column without 

 charge. They will be strictly limited to mounted 

 objects, and material for mounting.] 



Wanted — first-class prepared and crude material, or 

 mounted objects, in exchange for diatoms in situ or 

 other first-class crude material, or for mounted objects. 

 M. A. BOOTH, Longmeadow, Mass. 



Wanted — Human Muscle with Trichina, in ex- 

 change for well-mounted slides of vegetable drugs. 

 OTTO A. WALL, M. D., 

 1027 St. Ange Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 



Living Volvox globator., in any quantity, for moun- 

 ted Algae or other slides. 



J. M. ADAMS, Watertown, N. Y. 



Niagara River Filterings fdr mounted slides. 



H. POOLE, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Wanted— good gatherings of Diatoms, fossil or re- 

 cent, especially of test forms. Liberal exchange in fine 

 slides ; prepared or rough material. Lists exchanged. 



C. L. PETICOLAS, 635 8th Street, Richmond,Va. 



Section of Brain, stained, sho\ying Tubercular Men- 

 ingites ; also Carcinoma Cerebri. Please send list. 

 L. BREWER HALL, M. D., 27 South i6th Street. 



Good, uncleaned Diatomaceous material containing 

 A rachnoidiscus, Heliopelta^ Pleurosig^na, Isthmia^ 

 Triceraiium^ Surirella gemma and Terpsinooe 

 tnusica wanted, in exchange for well-mounted slides 

 of arranged diatoms, etc., or cash. 



DANIEL G. FORT, Oswego, N. Y. 



Well-mounted Histological and Pathological slides, 

 in exchange for oX\i&x first-class slides. 



LEWIS M. EASTMAN, M. D., 

 S49 Lexington Street, Baltimore, Md. 



Well-mounted diatoms, in exchange for any -well- 

 mounted slides or material, etc. 



W. H. CURTIS, Haverhill, Mass. 



For diatoms in situ on Algae, send mounted slides. 

 K. M. CUNNINGHAM, Box 874, Mobile, Ala. 



For exchange : Mounted thin sections of whale- 

 bone, soapstone, serpentine, albite, feldspar, etc.; 

 also opaque mounts of several very beautiful fossil- 

 iferous limestones. 



Rev. E. A. PERRY, Quincy, Mass. 



Slides of hair of Tarantula, very curious ; also 

 crystalline deposits from urine, to exchange for well- 

 mounted slides. S. E. STILES, M. D., 



109 Cumberland St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Fine injected specimens of kidney, tongue and 

 liver, also very fine slides of human tooth, prepared 

 according to the method of Dr. Biidecker, showing 

 the protoplasmic net-work between the dentinal can- 

 aliculi, in exchange for first-class histological and 

 pathological slides, or other good specimens. 



J. L. WILLIAMS, North Vassalboro, Me. 



Well-mounted, typical Pathological and injected 

 Histological preparations, in exchange for other well- 

 mounted slides. Diatoms, Algae and Fungi preferred. 

 HENRY FROEHLING, 

 59 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Md. 



