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the objective used. Far better is it to always advance 

 the exact truth. Our instrument is wonderful, needs no 

 exaggeration, but speaks for itself. 



Analyzing Flowers. — For this purpose, a good dis- 

 secting microscope will answer nearly every requirement. 

 This should be supplemented by a case of dissecting in- 

 struments, such as knives and mounted needles. 



Analyzing Mosses. — For this purpose a first rate com- 

 pound microscope is indispensable. Here every part of 

 the plant is often diagnostic. The protonema, the costa 

 of the leaves with guides and stereids, the antherids, 

 archegones, the perichetal leaves, the seta, the stem 

 leaves, the branch leaves, the capsule, the calyptra, the 

 operculum, the peristone, the spores and in fact nearly 

 every part is frequently brought into requisition. Few 

 studies will require more attention or develope more 

 microscopic acuteness than the analysis of mosses. 



EDITORIAL. 



The Nerves. — Some very extended microscopic studies 

 of the nerves have been made by foreigners and Prof. 

 Barker has compiled the results in the N. Y. Medical 

 Journal. The illustrations largely photomicrographs 

 have already reached one-hundred and two in number. 



Necrology. — Dr. D. P. Frame died at Kansas City, Mo., 

 Feb. 25, 1898, having been a veterinary surgeon for 

 twenty-five years but, for two weeks prior to his death he 

 was a government meat inspector at Kansas City, having 

 just moved there from Colorado Springs. He was a good 

 microscopical student, a subscriber to periodicals, and a 

 member of the Postal Microscopical Club. 



Diatoms. — The flora of the Pacific coast excels that of 

 the Atlantic in elegance and abundance of forms, though 

 not in number of species. Algae may be found covered to 

 the depth of a quarter of an inch with deposits of the 



