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ings, the membership is decidedly limited, and it is a work of love. 

 He considered the representation a very fair one for the opening meeting. 



Hon. Levi L. Barbour, chairman of the local committee, spoke in 

 regard to the outing Friday and said that none but members would be 

 permitted to go. 



The election of new members, approved by the executive committee, 

 included the following : — H. D. Geddings, Key West, Fla. ; Albert T. 

 Lytle, Buffalo; A. Wilson Dods, M. D., Fredonia, N. Y. ; Walter 

 Storrs Bigelow, Buffalo ; H. B. Murray, M. D., Tonawanda, N. Y^. ; 

 Charles C. Faris, St. Louis; Frederick C. Leber, M. D., Louisville; 

 Lawrence A. Harding, Fergus Falls, Minn. ; Henry H. Doubleday, 

 Washington, D. C. ; Arthur F. Bartges, Akron, O. ; John A. Cutter, 

 M. D., New York ; Augustus C. Gruhlke, Waterloo, Ind. ; Mason B. 

 Thomas, Ithaca, N. Y". ; Williard W. Rowlee, Ithaca, N. Y. ; Wil- 

 liam J. Gillett, M. D., Toledo, O. ; Thomas Kennedy, New Brighton, 

 Pa. ; R. A. Fish, Ithaca ; Grant S. Hopkins, Ithaca ; Thomas B. 

 Spence, Ithaca; Frank A. Rogers, M. D., Brewster, Mass.; J. P. 

 Pfanner, Buffalo ; E. J. Schanfelberger, M. D., Hastings, Neb. ; Wil- 

 liam H. Sylvester, M. D., Natick, Mass. ; George H. McCausey, 

 Janesville, Wis. ; L. C. A. Last, Moberly, Mo. ; Robert Reyburn, 

 Washington, D. C. ; Thomas H. Urquhart, M. D., Hastings, Neb. ; 

 James W. Hartigan, Morgantown, W. Va. ; Walter N. Sherman, M. 

 D., Merced, Cal. ; James Alexander Close, M. B., Summerfield, 111. ; 

 J. M. Yznaga, Washington, D. C. ; William R. Chittick, M. D., De- 

 troit ; Frank Davis, Belleville, 111.; H. M. Whelpley, St. Louis; 

 George W. Rice, Detroit ; Charles Willig, Jr., New York; Lyman 

 L. Deck, M. D., Salamanca, N. Y. ; Edmund W. Weis, M. D., Ot- 

 tawa, 111. 



Prof. Burrill, of Champaign, 111., said that two deaths had occurred 

 during the past year — Dr. Newcomber, of Indianapolis, a charter 

 member, and Mr. Eugene Pinckney, of Dixon, 111. 



The first paper on " The Binocular Microscope of the Seventeenth 

 Century," by Chas. E. West, M. D., of Brooklyn, N. Y., was read by 

 title only. The paper by Mr. W. H. Walmsley on "A Handy 

 Photo-Micrographic Camera," was also read by title only. 



Dr. Lyman Deck, of Salamanca, N. Y., read an interesting paper 

 on " Resolution of Amphipleura by Central Light." This paper caused 

 considerable discussion among the members. 



The paper by Mr. C. M. Vorce, of Cleveland, Ohio, on " A New 

 Daphnella," was read by title. 



Prof. M. D. Ewell, of Chicago, 111., then read an interesting paper 

 on " The Microscope and Camera in the Detection of Forgery." Prof. 

 Ewell stated that the common law prohibits the introduction into a 

 case of writing not already in evidence for the purpose of comparison 

 with the forged document. He thought the laws should permit gen- 

 uine writing to be put in as evidence, and New York, Wisconsin, and 

 Minnesota have already taken action in the matter. Forgery may 

 be committed by erasures or additions, or by copying the entire writing 

 by tracing or copying. Composite photography had been suggested to 

 identify writing, and he cited several other methods. He held that in 

 signatures exactly alike there is fraud, for no person writes the same 

 twice. The erasures, alterations, and other signs are laid bare by the 



