1884.] 



MICROSCOPICAL JOURNAL. 



97 



Desmids of the United States. 

 — We are glad to announce to the mi- 

 croscopical public the completion of 

 this work upon which the author, the 

 Rev. Francis Wolle, of Bethlehem, 

 Pa., has been engaged for a long time. 

 As we pen these lines the book is in 

 the binder's hands, and will be soon 

 ready for distribution. The work 

 consists of 230 printed pages, includ- 

 ing a carefully arranged index, giving 

 a short account of algse in general, and 

 a fuller one of desmids, with direc- 

 tions how to find, collect, preserve, 

 and examine them, a minute descrip- 

 tion of each of the 500 species named 

 in the index, and a descriptive cata- 

 logue to every plate of the plants il- 

 lustrated thereon. It contains 1,100 

 figures on fiftj'-three colored plates. 



A more extended notice of this val- 

 uable work will be given at another 

 time. The book is published at the 

 author's personal expense, and we 

 trust microscopists will show their 

 appreciation of such enterprise not 

 only by ordering immediately, but by 

 sending their orders directly to Mr. 

 Wolle and not to their booksellers or 

 other agents, for reasons which must 

 be obvious. The price is $5.00. 

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American Society of Micro- 

 scopists. — The announcement by the 

 President, the Hon. J. D. Cox, of the 

 next meeting of the Society has just 

 reached us, and we select the follow- 

 ing information from the circular : 



The Seventh Annual Meeting of 

 the Society will be held at Rochester, 

 N. Y., beginning on Tuesday, Aug- 

 ust 19th, 1884, lasting four days. The 

 time is set a week before the meeting 

 of the British Association at Mon- 

 treal ; that of the American Associa- 

 tion at Philadelphia occurring one 

 week later still. We hope that we 

 shall have the pleasure of welcoming 

 distinguished men of science from the 

 British Islands and from Canada, 

 whose names are familiar to us from 

 their valuable work with the micro- 

 scope. The arrangements made by 

 the local committees are such as to 



ensure most agreeable and interesting 

 .sessions, with the most ample facilities 

 for those who present papers to illus- 

 trate them by projection apparatus 

 and otherwise. 



Titles and abstracts of papers 

 should be sent as soon as practicable 

 to the Secretary, Prof. D. S. Kelli- 

 cott. Ph. D., 119 Fourteenth street, 

 Buffalo, N. Y. ; and all who intend 

 to be present or to join the Society 

 are requested also to notify him or 

 the local committee at Rochester. 



— A New Microscopical vSoci- 

 ETY. — There is a microscopical so- 

 ciety in San Francisco composed en- 

 tirely of ladies. We believe this 

 because the secretary has written a 

 letter to Mr. Crisp to tell him all about 

 it. The microscopists of England 

 now know that such a society exists 

 and are doubtless delighted. But is 

 it not a pity that microscopists here 

 should be kept so long in ignorance 

 of it.^ We think it is time the society 

 should be known here, so we take the 

 first opportunity to announce its ex- 

 istence to the American public. 



We may also take occasion to say 

 that as the society was apparently 

 not aware of the existence of another 

 ladies' society in the country until in- 

 formed of it through Mr. Crisp's re- 

 marks, it may be fair to suppose that 

 it is also unaware of the existence of 

 any American microscopical litera- 

 ture ; for no reader of this Journal, 

 at least, can fail to know of such an 

 active organization as that at Welles- 

 ley College. As a matter of mutual 

 interest, therefore, w^e shall by a 

 special effort endeavor to make known 

 to the society the peculiar merits of 

 this publication, trusting the mem- 

 bers will thereby learn, that, although 

 they may look to foreign lands for 

 styles and methods of personal adorn- 

 ment, when they come to such a seri- 

 ous subject as microscopy their wants 

 can be as well met, and their fame as 

 well appreciated, in their own coun- 

 try. 



