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American Society of Microscopists — Detroit Meeting. 



By GEO. i:. FELL, 



I'.n FAl.O, N. V. 



The next meeting- of the Socict\' will l)e held at Detroit. Michigan, 

 August 13 to i^. inclusive. I'he outlook is most encouraging, as will 

 be seen from the |)apcrs already promised. The general session for the 

 reading of [)apers will he held in the elegant' new building of the De- 

 troit College of Medicine, corner of St. Antoine and Catherine streets 

 and Ciratiot avenue. 



Tuesday A. J/., A/tj^i/st I2^ i8go. — The Convention will open. 

 The Mayor of Detroit will deliver the address of welcome, to be fol- 

 lowed by the response of the President of the Society. The afternoon 

 session will be clevoted to the reading of papers and society business. 

 In the e\ening will be held a conversazione at hotel headquarters. 



\\\\{}ics(.ia\\ ^\i(v.ust ij. — Forenoon and Afternoon: Reading and 

 discussion of papers and special topics. Evening: iXnnual achh'ess of 

 the President : vSubject, '^ The Influence of Electricity on Protoplasm." 



Th/irsJaV' ^iiigiist 14. — P'oren.oon : Reading and discussion of pa- 

 pers and special topics. Afternoon : Working session devoted to the 

 various technological features of microscopy as preparing, staining, 

 mounting of specimens, section-cutting, manipulative methods, etc. 

 These demonstrations are conducted by experts in* the ditlbrent branches 

 of work, and form a valuable feature of the meeting. Evening: Exhi- 

 bition of Microscopes and Objects. Popular in character, and tendered 

 In the Society to the citizens of Detroit. 



J-'riday^ August ij. — Forenoon : Reading of papers, discussions, 

 society business. Afternoon : Reading of papers ; discussion until 4 

 P. M. Trip on the Detroit River, followed by an inspection of the 

 laboratories of Park, Davis & Co. (by invitation). Adjourned exer- 

 cises. 



(The members of the Society are specially requested that the enquiry 

 cards relating to the exhibition and working session be filled out and 

 promptly returned. Through this courtesy the officers of the Society 

 are apprised of the receipt of the circular and of the probable attend- 

 ance ; and their labor, which is quite extensive, is thereby somewhat 

 lightened.) 



Hotels. — The headquarters of the Society will be at the Hotel Nor- 

 mandie, prices ranging from $2.50 to $3.00 per day. The Russel 

 House and Hotel Cadillac are also open to the guests, at prices from 

 $3.00 to $4.00 per day. Cheaper accommodations may be obtained at 

 boarding-houses at rates from $1 .00 upwards per day. 



Subjects for Discussion. — Representation of the Society at the 

 ^W)rld's Fair, Chicago, 1S93. Discussion to be opened by Ex-Gov. 

 Jacob D. Cox, Cincinnati, Ohio ; Micrometry, by Prof. William A. 

 Rogers, Waterville, Me. ; Proposed Standing Committee on Medico- 

 Legal Microscopy, by Prof. Marshall D. Ewell, Chicago, 111. ; Uni- 

 formity in Tube Length, by Prof. Simon H. Gage, Ithaca, N. Y. ; The 

 Advisability of Adding more Members to the Publication Committee, 

 by Prof. D. S. Kellicott, Columbus, Ohio ; Proposed New Constitu- 

 tion, by Dr. William J. Lewis, Hartford, Conn. ; The Advisability of 

 Meeting at same time and place of the American Association for the 



