126 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY [July 



iiie. Remove all dirt and examine, covered in a drop of 

 water. Examine the slide with the cover up and also re- 

 verse the slide. Along the stems will be found the am- 

 phigastria or under leaves. It makes a beautiful show 

 under a one inch objective. It may be mounted and well 

 preserved in glycerine jelly. 



EDITORIAL. 



Postal Microscopical Club.— A 16 pag-e pamphlet, issued 

 by the President, R. H. Ward, M. D., and the Secretary, 

 Dr. Shanks, contains the twenty-second and twenty-third 

 annual reports. The club has been in continuous operation 

 since 1885. Its membership remains about the same, and 

 about thirteen boxes of slides pass from member to member 

 each year throug-h the mails. The Club reports having- 

 had some of its boxes crushed and absolutely destroyed by 

 the roug-h treatment of the postal cars grabbing up mail 

 bags on too swiftly moving trains or throwing the bags off 

 from such trains. This only occurs at small stations, sug- 

 gesting that no member should be permitted to send or 

 receive the boxes at suburban stations. If the members 

 are restricted to using post-offices in cities and large 

 towns, this difficulty would be largely obviated. Another 

 difficulty which has always annoyed the officers is the 

 holding of boxes too long before forwarding them to the 

 next station. As a remedy for this each member should 

 be compelled to deposit $5 or $10 to the Treasurer so that 

 fines may be rigorously assessed for each violation of the 

 rules. The annual dues $1 cover the officer's expenses 

 for slides, boxes, postage, expressage, stationary and 

 printing. 



A new special series of boxes have been in service for 

 several months. Half of these are six-slide boxes devoted 

 to special subjects and contributed by members who have 

 made special studies in certain fields. The other half 

 which are circulated alternately with the first are two-slide 

 boxes and a few with three-slides accompanied with 



