1890.] MICROSCOPICAL JOUENAL. IT 



Essex Co., N. J. — F. Vanderpoel, Secy. 



Septefnber 26^ i88g. — The annual meeting was held at the residence 

 of the secretary. In the absence of the president the chair was occu- 

 pied by Mr. Jay L. Smith, of South Orange. The Society elected offi- 

 cers for the ensuing year as follows : President, Jay L. Smith ; secre- 

 tary, Frank Vanderpoel ; treasurer, Geo. S. Woolman ; executive 

 committee. Dr. G. S. Allan, Rev. Albert Mann, Jr., Mr. C. H. Loomis. 



The members were instructed in the art of photo-micrography by the 

 newly-elected president, who, with his P. and L. stand and a very com- 

 pact camera of his own design, photographed an embryo chick of thirty- 

 six hours incubation. The whole operation of exposing and developing 

 the plate was performed in the presence of the. Society. The process 

 was clean and neat enough to be performed in one's parlor. 



Thursday^ October JO., i88g. — Met at the residence of Mr. J. L. 

 Smith, in South Orange. A paper on the subject of tumors was read 

 by Mr. W. C. Gardner. It included a general classification, with de- 

 scription of the growth and development, and opinions of various au- 

 thorities upon their causes and cure, and was illustrated by charts and 

 slides. In the discussion which followed the question as to the cure of 

 certain kinds of cancers was debated by the medical men present. The 

 very diagnosis of a cancerous growth seemed to be a matter of consid- 

 erable doubt. Some authorities were quoted as favoring the test afforded 

 by the insertion of a hypodermic needle into the suspected growth and 

 the microscopic examination of the fluid extracted. By others this test 

 was not considered infallible, and, in the end, the question still remained 

 an open one. All were agreed, however, as to the great importance 

 which the microscope assumed in the diagnosis of a case of real or sup- 

 posed cancer. A few slides were shown through the tube, among them 

 a section of small-celled sarcoma and a carcinoma. 



October 2^, i88g. — At the residence of Dr. J. B. Hawes, Montclair. 

 The president, Mr. J. L. Smith, read a paper on the subject of cancers, 

 a sort of sequel to or continuation of the paper of Mr. Gardner's read 

 at the previous meeting. The three varities of cancer — sarcoma, car- 

 cinoma, and epithelioma, were fully described and the paper was fol- 

 lowed by an exhibition of slides on the screen and under the microscope. 

 The slides which were shown by means of the lantern were : i. Small 

 round-celled sarcoma of liver. 2. Large round sarcoma of leg. 3. 

 Alveolar sarcoma from tibia ; and two or three others of a similar nature. 



With the microscope there were shown a tubulated epithelioma from 

 the tongue, epithelioma of the nose, myxo-sarcoma of the supra-orbital 

 ridge. A cell nest in epithelioma from the nose was shown in a very 

 beautiful manner ; it looked almost diagrammatic, from being so well 

 defined. Then there were exhibited a spindle-celled chondro-sarcoma 

 and a giant-celled sarcoma. 



After the reading of the paper. Dr. Allan said that he wished to make 

 a statement with reference to a certain article upon the subject of dental 

 caries, which appeared in the June number of The Microscope., in 

 which the author of the article combatted and ridiculed the theories of 

 Dr. Miller, of Berlin. 



This article Dr. Allan considered to be full of misstatements, and it 

 would be reviewed by him at an early date in a paper which he would 

 read before the Society, and would wish to have published in as prom- 

 inent a manner as the paper referred to. 



