48 THE AMERICAN" MONTHLY - [Mar. 



America, with its 1,190 colored fig^ures, is offered by one of 

 our correspondents in Albion, N. Y., for $4.25. The book 

 is rare and now hard to g"et. This is the only copy we 

 know of on sale. 



W^alter White's Botanical Specimens. — Now we are 

 ready to send complete sets of the beautiful microscopical 

 objects. Please send new orders. 



General Index. — If you have not had the g-eneral index 

 to the first sixteen volumes of this journal please write 

 immediately for one, and state which volumes you have 

 preserved. 



In German. — We have some extra copies of Zeitschriftfur 

 Atigewandte Mikroskopie , von G. Marptnann, Leipzig^ to send free 

 to those who wish to see sample copies. 



Books. — A subscriber asks about John Phin's publica- 

 tions. Send to the Industrial Publishing- Company, 16 

 Thomas street. New York, for list of Phin's books and 

 other microscopical publications. They are all cheap but 

 not the latest published. 



Royal M. Society. — At the meeting- on January 19th, the 

 president reviewed the prog-ress of Microscopical Science 

 during- 1897, and g-ave an account of the manner in which 

 achromatic doublets and triplets are practically calculated. 



Personal.- — Prof. Jeffrey Bell, one of the secretaries of 

 the Royal Microscopical Society is to be succeeded by Dr. 

 Hebb. 



Medical Journals. — There are 275 medical journals in 

 the United States. Combined circulation, 16,017,200 copies. 



Personal. — Lyman M. Ellis, M. D., is lecturer on His- 

 tolog-y in the Gross Medical Colleg-e. 



Arnold S. Taussig-, M. D., is instructor in Microscopical 

 Diag-nosis in the Gross Medical Colleg-e. 



Georg-e N. Carpenter is editor of the Irish Naturalist. We 

 shall be pleased to forward requests for sample copies if 

 written on 2-cent postal cards and sent to us under cover 

 with remittance for subscription due us. 



